The article is concerned with the role of an electronic course in higher mathematics in the development of digital competence of students of technical faculties. The principle of organizing the educational process with the help of an electronic course in higher mathematics, focused on the development of students’ digital competence, is considered. The experience of testing an electronic notebook in higher mathematics, which is part of an electronic course, is presented. The experience of the implementation of an electronic notebook in higher mathematics in teaching students at all its stages is considered: the examples of problems solved in seminars are given; the design of classroom lessons is described taking into account the specifics of the academic subject “Mathematical Analysis”. The structure of the electronic notebook, including test tasks and cases for intermediate certification of students based on the results of the seminar, is given. The effectiveness of the organization of the educational process using an electronic course in higher mathematics to develop the digital competence of students in a technical direction is shown. The work examines the attitude of students to teaching higher mathematics using an electronic course, their self-assessment of involvement in the educational process. Moreover, the educational results of the development of digital competence were demonstrated. A reliable relationship was confirmed between the level of development of digital competence and the positive attitude of students to a new format of teaching mathematics: an interactive electronic course with a component base in the form of an electronic notebook. Based on the results of the experimental work, it can be argued that the students positively assessed the use of the electronic course in teaching, because have constant access to training materials and to information about the individual trajectory of the course. This interactive development is convenient to use when preparing yourself for classes.