Collaboration, key for the success in the connected globalized world, demands knowledge workers to communicate, coordinate and cooperate in dynamic, multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed groups. E-learning rises as an important answer to the pressing need of non-stop learning. And the resulting continuous evolution of personal competencies calls for the use of competency management practices to aid activities such as expert location, group formation, career services and strategic company-wide planning. Uniting the collaboration, e-learning and competency management fields, the present work encloses the research on the extension of a collaborative learning environment (the AulaNet) with competency management tools. The theory guiding this research clarifies many of the concepts of the area, introduces the three dimensions of a competency and compares knowledge management with competency-based people management while lists the questions competency management can address. Then, details of the competency model developed for the AulaNet Environment are explained, as well as how the actors playing their roles in the environment can benefit from its new features. The document finishes by presenting the conclusion drawn from an experiment using the competency model, carried out in 4 editions of disciplines at undergraduate courses at PUC-Rio.