The article examines organizational and methodological aspects of the digital transformation of education at a university in the context of distance learning from the point of view of the relationship between the quality of education using modern digital information technologies, pedagogical skills and teachers’ and students’ personalities. The authors analyze the causal relationship between the digitalization of the educational process, including the distance component, and the status of a teacher, administration of an educational institution, students and parents, developers of electronic resources for the distance education system. Organizational and methodological ways of solving the problems of digital transformation of education by means of a tiered system for managing the process of digital transformation of education in the distance learning system and methodological support of this process are proposed.