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The importance of intelligent tutoring systems has rapidly increased in past decades. There has been an exponential growth in the number of ends users that can be addressed as well as in technological development of the environments, which makes it more sophisticated and easily implementable. In the introduction, the paper offers a brief overview of intelligent tutoring systems. It then focuses on two types that have been designed for education of students in the tertiary sector. The systems use elements of adaptivity in order to accommodate as many users as possible. They serve both as a support of presence lessons and, primarily, as the main educational environment for students in the distance form of studies – e-learning. The systems are described from the point of view of their functionalities and typical features that show their differences. The authors conclude with an attempt to choose the best features of each system, which would lead to creation of an even more sophisticated intelligent tutoring system for e-learning.

E-learning evaluation as one of the phases of an e-learning project is rather often the one of the least importance to the developers of e-learning courses. In many cases we can find it performed through the simple means of a student evaluation questionnaire, despite the fact that such a complex matter can hardly be evaluated from just one point of view. This paper deals with a design of a complex model of evaluation with a special attention to adaptive e-learning courses which provide students with personalized/tailored instruction and the importance of which has nowadays indisputable growing tendency. As there are many elements interacting in the process of e-learning instruction, there are also numerous points of view and aspects to be considered within its evaluation. When designing the model of evaluation, we have chosen a systematic approach, defining first all of the interacting elements and determining evaluation aspects and methods of their analysis. Our conclusions presented in this paper are based on the recommendations of experts in pedagogy and didactics, as well as the best practices of e-learning courses design and development.