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Learning processes in higher education have often been based on the methods used since many years ago such as on-campus classes and paper-based reading and assessment, which is sometimes exhausting and uninteresting for students. Nowadays, taking advantage of the benefits provided by computers and Internet in relation to collaboration, information access and communication could be the best way to improve learning and evaluation processes. In this context, using innovative assessment methodologies offered by authoring tools can help students to learn at their own pace and time. Employing non-traditional assessment methods in a proper way can entertain students when carrying out a learning activity. This paper describes the general design, analysis and implementation of the Learning Activities Manager (GAAP) within the e-learning platform TEC Digital of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. GAAP aims at assisting instructors of TEC with specific functionalities to create evaluations of different types including: questionnaires (single/multiple choice questions, true/false items, short/long questions), educational games (sentence sorting, crosswords, card flip and search word games) and surveys/tests.