At the very beginning of social distancing in Australia, just before school closures in early March 2020, two academics in the field of educational technologies sought a way to quickly support teachers during the sudden shift to online education. This article provides an overview of the rapid rollout of a series of videos developed to build teacher confidence and introduce them to key concepts of online education. A significant impact can be claimed based on the number of views with implications for this approached discussed in the context of online leaning communities. The expression ‘remote schooling’ was adopted to represent short-term applications of online learning.