With the growing number of colleges moving to online learning, the author has been asked: Can online learning incorporate trauma-responsive strategies? The short answer is yes. Current events, including the lack of an endpoint in terms of the pandemic, have heightened the stress that students, faculty and staff will feel when colleges and universities reopen. In the COVID-gap (the time between when educational institutions shut down to when they reopen in fall 2020) many students experienced trauma. So did faculty and staff. The trauma experienced was not uniform. This article lists a set of eleven strategies (not listed in order of importance) that can be deployed to ameliorate trauma symptomology in the context of online learning, remembering that all suggestions need to be adapted to the culture, location and climate in which learning is occurring.