What an uproar to global discourse that online high-school learning evokes in student engagement and academic performance. Virtual classrooms offer all conveniences and access, notwithstanding flexibility, without a doubt becoming a challenge to traditional engagement strategies. Many students now find motivation and participation difficult due to a highly limited experience of face-to-face interaction and structured environments. Performance also varies according to students' learning styles and the resources available to them. Ironically, final project and thesis submissions do send students running for a reliable printing service, to ensure their works carry a semblance of professionalism. From that point, the digital and real worlds converge, and their academic aspirations may be viewed not just in digitized forms, as potentially but not entirely reducing efforts made in neat, polished formats.