Avalia o de Ambientes Virtuais de Aprendizagem: O Caso do ROODA na UFRGS.

This article discusses the processes evaluation performed with the ROODA (Cooperative Learning Network), a Virtual Learning Environment (AVA) available in the web, that supports long distance as well as presencial education. This environment if characterized for being user-centered and to make possible the interaction between the users, a share of the files and productions, personal registers and finally to a management of the different groups of students. The ROODA was developed by Technology Digital Nucleous applied in Education (NUTED) of Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (UFRGS) and integrates Distant Teaching Project of this university. For the Institutionalization of this environment it was necessary to adapt it to the UFRGS’s needs and structure, being this one of the main references in the evaluation. Its interdisciplinary proposal of this processes evaluation stand out,looking at the specificity of the knowledge areas enveloped in itsdevelopment. As from this are present the five evaluation principles that subsidize the perfection. Of this AVA, as well as, the proceeding utilized to the data collection. At last, to overtop the principal reformulations makes in ROODA, to look at better performance.