The software engineering course is essential for cultivating the abilities of computer major college students. It is an introductory course for software majors. The design purpose of the online software engineering course is to improve students’ teamwork and hands-on abilities in certain aspects. Social anxiety disorder is a mental disorder characterized by fear of speaking or communicating in public. Nowadays, it is widely distributed among young people worldwide.

This study focuses on 30 college students with social anxiety disorder from the School of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. The main direction of improvement is to improve team collaboration and hands-on skills and their software engineering courses. A 3-month experimental period is used, using the Anxiety Self Rating Scale (SAS). The social status of the tested college students is observed, and the survey results are statistically analyzed using Amos software.

From the experimental results, it can be seen that team collaboration has a good effect on improving the symptoms of social disorders, with 70% of the tested college students experiencing varying degrees of improvement in their social skills, and another 30% are more resistant to exploring social media.

The focus of online teaching design for software engineering courses should be on innovation and time, which can alleviate the social anxiety disorder of college students and effectively improve their social skills.