Sistemas de gestión del aprendizaje – Plataformas de teleformación

The present paper constitutes a proposal for the debate and reflection about the nature and the definition of the learning management systems. About which are its inherent elements and what pedagogic functions its can contain. Likewise, it justifies a proposal of evaluation of the quality centered on learning. Thus, this paper is joined and serves to understand and to use a series of instruments to evaluate the quality of activities of on-line formation supported by these platforms, as well as the affordances of the platforms. The instruments appear integrated with the denomination “Evaluation of a learning management system”.