The teaching - learning process that can be implemented in a Higher Education institution for a student to assimilate the knowledge and skills necessary for the use and mastery of a software as commonly used as the Excel spreadsheet, should consider the use of techniques , strategies and particular methodologies if it is to develop skills for the management of this software at medium and advanced level. This research presents the results obtained having used as a strategic tool the virtual platform Edmodo within the course of Computer Science II for the Accounting Education Program, so that the student acquires on one hand the necessary knowledge for the management of the mentioned software, the development of digital skills, the motivation to learn, the promotion of responsibility and proactivity for the study, as well as the acquisition of different habits to those that can develop without an information technology like this.