In order to improve the teaching quality of soil mechanics course and the talent training quality of civil engineering specialty, some explorations and practices on the classroom and experimental teaching reform of soil mechanics were carried out. The main classroom teaching reforms are as follows:The explorations of teaching method and mode of research-based learning, case-based learning, and team-based learning combined with problem-based learning were carried out, and the intelligent teaching tools such as rain classroom were used to arouse students’ learning interest and improve the quality of classroom teaching; In order to frequently update contents of the course, it is necessary to continually improve our professional ability by extensively reading the textbooks and related books of soil mechanics; The available online course resources were fully utilized, and online and offline mixed teaching reform and flipped classroom teaching reform based on internet+ were actively promoted; The ideological and political elements were effectively integrated into the teaching of soil mechanics by introducing distinguished domestic and foreign persons in the field of soil mechanics and famous engineering cases of soil mechanics, and enhancing the knowledge and principle of soil mechanics as general philosophical principles. The main experimental teaching reforms are as follows:The heuristic and interactive teaching mode, research-based thinking, outcomes-based education concept and great country craftsman spirit were introduced into experimental teaching; In order to enhance the effect of experimental teaching, the students were required to watch the relevant experimental videos of online open courses of soil mechanics experiment before the experimental courses; The online experimental teaching was carried out by utilizing the relevant virtual simulation experiments on the national virtual simulation experiment teaching project sharing platform. With the teaching reform of soil mechanics course, make effort to cultivate comprehensive compound civil engineering talents with high professional level, strong innovation ability, and strong sense of social responsibility.