Distance education students have been studied on the impact of institutions’ student engagement efforts toward understanding the impact on their student’s academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total online lecture has been done by the distance education institution on their students. This study intends to know the relationship and understand the impact of student engagement efforts on the student’s academic performance. Self-administered questionnaires on components of student engagement and academic performance are distributed online to several distance education students. Results indicate that student engagement has a low impact on descriptive mean value toward academic performance. Student engagement has no relationship with academic performance. Furthermore, regression analysis does not support the relationship between student engagement and academic performance. The discussion has been elaborated on student engagement and student academic performance.