Abstract
Objective: To report the teaching experience in using the eco-map, formerly used in the health field, as a pedagogical tool for student self-assessment. Experience report: This is an experience report, led by an professor at a public university in the Brasília (capital of Brazil), about the self-use of the eco-map in a virtual classroom with 47 students, of both sexes, who were in the last year of graduation in Nursing. Thus, the professor guided the performance of an activity, so that students could prepare two individual ecomaps. The first had portrayed their relationships before the remote teaching, the second, the present moment. After that, the professor reflected on the tool to understand the bonds of students and guide their pedagogical practices; most of them have weaknesses or broken ties. Final considerations: There is the possibility of transferring the application of the eco-map from the health sector to the academic sector, as an alternative and innovative instrument to the reorganization of professors in the process of developing interpersonal connections in the virtual teaching model.