July 2015
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The accelerated development and increasing use of virtual learning environments (VLE) motivates a change in education. This article presents a study about data mining (DM), techniques and tools with the aim of researching and analysing the student's behaviour in the virtual environment, in the real time of a course implementation, giving to the professor a feedback of the student´s academic performance, what estimulates student's participation and the improving on his development, as well as avoiding the course evasion. The results gotten with the researches on techniques and tools show that it is possible to obtain these inferences over the period.