The pandemic generated by the presence of the new coronavirus COVID-19, has undoubtedly been one of the events that has caused the greatest impact on society worldwide in recent times, taking the world by surprise and generating a great impact at the level global, because society in general and the political and socio-economic systems of the different countries were not prepared to face the challenge generated by the long quarantine periods decreed by the different governments.One of the fields that has been hit the hardest worldwide, and especially in developing countries like Colombia, has been education.This has been seriously affected by the drastic change in the way of carrying out the teachinglearning process, as the educational system had to adapt, unexpectedly, from face-to-face to virtual, without it being prepared for such end.Hence the importance of being able to have first-hand information, which allows to know the degree of affectation generated by the change of methodology in education.This document presents the socioeconomic information and aspects related to the use of online tools and their potential impact on the educational process, based on a survey carried out among 4 and 5 year old Civil Engineering students from the University of Sucre, which is of public, located in the city of Sincelejo, North of Colombia.In response to the recent crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Sucre was forced to change the traditional classroom teaching model, for an virtual system, in which students and teachers attend synchronous sessions in virtual media and asynchronous for the development of academic activities.The authors designed a questionnaire to characterize the socioeconomic conditions of the students and evaluate the impact generated by the use of digital learning tools.The applied questionnaire consists of two main sections: the first, which seeks to know the sociodemographic situation of the students, with questions such as sex, age, institutions, income, among others.The second part of the interview is aimed at understanding the use of digital tools by students and their impact on the development of their academic performance, for which questions are asked in which conditions are evaluated before COVID-19 and during COVID-19.