With the influx of online learning opportunities, online students and instructors are faced with a variety of challenges. Online students face the same challenges as do face-to-face learners, but by facing them in an online context, the interpretations of those challenges can lead to the success or failure of their overall educational experience. Similarly, online instructors must use the experience they accumulate and transform that into an online environment. This study used the participatory case study methodology to document a female graduate student's experience with the challenges for online students, and then used those challenges to develop virtual implementation strategies for online instructors.