The increase in online doctoral programs and need for mentoring research at a distance make it important to identify the challenges faced by online students, the technologies and strategies used by mentors that help online students, and the strategies used by online students that contribute to successful degree completion. In what ways can a supervisor-student mentoring relationship be successfully created and doctoral students be successfully supported in an online environment? This research presents the mentoring experience of sixteen online students who recently graduated from an online doctoral program and four faculty members who mentored them at a distance.