In this paper, we describe the construction of a class of methods with a large area of the stability region for solving Volterra integro-differential equations. In the structure of these methods which is based on a subclass of explicit general linear methods with and without Runge-Kutta stability property, we use an adequate quadrature rule to approximate the integral term of the equation. The free parameters of the methods are used to obtain methods with a large stability region. The efficiency of the proposed methods is verified with some numerical experiments and comparisons with other existing methods. with z(t) := t t0 K t, s, y(s) ds. Here, the functions f : I × R m × R m → R m and K : D × R m → R m , with D := {(t, s) : t 0 ≤ s ≤ t ≤ T } are continuous on