This study’s aim was carry through the ergonomic evaluation of the usability in a virtual learning environment to demonstrate how the lack of usability criteria and ergodesign can contribute with low quality of the distance education. The study’s object was CEAD/IFES-ES’s virtual learning environment and to conduct this evaluation the following methods and techniques were applied: SUS questionnaire, Cooperative Evaluation and Heuristic Evaluation. The obtained results pointed that this environment presents serious usability problems and showed that was possible to generate improvement recommendations for this interface environment with usability and design. There’s a hope that this scientific investigation can help other researches to improve the quality of virtual learning environments.