This article concerns distance learning in modern conditions, its principles of operation, advantages and disadvantages, problems of students learning remotely, and also tells about our own experience of overcoming problems associated with the distance learning organization. In this article the difference between external programs and distance learning is being given, with the following describing features of the process. The authors cover the issues of organizing a proper distance learning process and analyze the experience of telecommuting and problems revealed by coronavirus restrictions. Results of the research suggest the structure of distant courses and discussion of distance learning strengths and weaknesses that teachers all around Russia faced to. Also attention is paid to analyses of the best suitable tasks that perform all goals of educational process and the problems that were discovered are being suggested solutions and ways to eliminate them.