Introduction: The Covid-19 pandemic has stricken the life of students as well as common people. It was impossible to have a normal regular class during the pandemic period. Thus, online learning was one of the remedy. Online learning is a novel experience for students.

Especially, for the medical students to whom practical’s are very much important. Online learning has both merits and demerits.

Objectives: To assess the impact of online classes on academic life of nursing students during Covid-19 pandemic. To determine the association between impacts of online learning on academic life of nursing students with selected online learning characteristics.

Methodology: A quantitative research approach was used for this study. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study.60, 4^th year B.Sc. nursing students were selected using simple random sampling method from a selected college of nursing, Mangalore. Checklist was the tool used and the data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: The result of the study showed that, the majority students resided at home (98.3%) and (1.7%) with others during this pandemic period. Majority of students used mobile phones (91.7%) and (3.3%) used tablets and (5%) used laptops for online learning. Most of the students used Google Meet (80%), (13.3%) used Zoom and (6.7%) used Google Classroom. More than half of the students (86%) used mobile data. In terms of basic computer skills, (78.3%) have basic skills and (21.7%) have no skill. Almost all the students have no previous knowledge (98.3%) and (6.7%) have some experience. Most of the students (60%) spent 4-7 hours, (30%) spent more than 7 hours and (10%) have spent 1-3 hours.

Conclusion: The findings of the study concluded that there are both positive and negative impacts of online learning during Covid-19 pandemic on nursing students. There is a significant association between basic computer skills before Covid-19, duration of time spent for online learning and impact of online learning on academic life of nursing students at 0.05 level of significance.