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This paper presents the findings from a research aiming to get the perception of the knowledge level of the use of e-learning tools between faculty from the University of A Coruna, belonging to both undergraduate and graduate programs. Based on a quantitative approach method, differences in knowledge levels where analyzed, in order to identify relationship according personal (sex and age) and professional (teaching experience, university teaching experience using virtual environments and position) characteristics. The results show that the level of knowledge of faculty in e-learning tools is low, being e-mail and chat the utilities that have achieved the highest score. An inferential analysis also showed that not tenured younger teachers, with fewer years of experience and using virtual environments since a longer time, scored higher levels of knowledge of the e-learning tools.