In the article, from the teaching position assumed by the author, it is explained the general and particular features of the components of teaching-learning process involved in the design of the task as a didactic unit, in the Virtual Learning Environment (EVA), of the University of Information Sciences. A university in which the conditions of technology and professional profile of training are different from the context where the original investigation was developed, the Agrarian University of Havana and Municipal Offices. The article makes reference to the technological development as a variable that can modify the access to information for teachers and students, the way that communication is established between teacher and student and student with other subjects in the study group and with the society in general. This development doesn’t affect the conception of the task as a didactic unit.