After initial restrictions in May, students were back on site for the final weeks of term two, and were three weeks into term three.

The Victorian government announced at the weekend that all students who had the ability to learn from home would return to that mode from August 5.

WMYC curriculum leader Emma Plunkett said many students had hoped to stay at school.

"I think some of them will be feeling disappointed to go back to online learning, because they have come back and connected with their friends again," she said.

"They know it's the right thing to do, to make sure everyone's safe.

"We're all in this together, and we want the students to feel supported and confident in their learning.

"We reviewed what happened last time, so our program will be more refined.

"We feel pretty proud of our online curriculum; students can move through at their own pace."

In round one of remote learning, the college had up to 2000 log-ins to the D2L (Desire 2 Learn) Brightspace platform per day from a student body of 900, showing students were revisiting course content later in the day.

Mrs Plunkett said the school had used Brightspace since 2016, which helped the transition of all delivery to online.

"We were pretty well-adapted to using that as our curriculum platform, but we did have to review our curriculum for online learning," she said.

"Our lessons for online learning were shorter than a regular classroom lesson, so that had to be taken into account.

"At school we have four 75-minute periods - for remote learning we have four 40-minute periods.

"If they're ahead, they can go on to the next step, or if the 40-minute lesson has gone super-quick, they can re-watch a video or go back into the reading.

"We found that the students could work really solidly on the academic stuff until about 12.40, and then they did the more independent work in the afternoon.

"It's time for the teachers to give students feedback and check in."

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Just like in the face-to-face classroom, outcomes varied for students.

"I think each student is different in that regard; some students respond really well to online learning and they can still have the same learning growth that they did in the face-to-face classroom," Mrs Plunkett said.

"Some students went further than they normally would, some plateaued a little bit.

"We have the platform there to support our students and we feel confident that it works well for us and for them.

"We refined things, and we refined how we communicated with the students."