The development of collaborative studies in learning has led to a renewed interest in the field of web-based education. In this experimental study, a highly interactive and collaborative teaching environment was created using Moodle, a learning management system with two types of Collaborative Tools (CTs): Standard CT and Advanced CT to create a virtual learning environment to teach programming languages, Java. 36 subjects were attending to this study. The experimental study was carried out between 2 different groups. Each group has 18 subjects who were randomly selected. Group1 used advanced and group2 used standard collaborative learning tool. The aim of this study was to find out the student opinions when using an advanced collaborative tool and a standard collaborative tool. The system developed has enabled students to follow the lessons in their own places of study, using their own computers. Data was collected at the end of the experimental study by Student Opinions in Relation to the Used Collaborative Tool and The Online Learning Opinion Scale instruments. The results show that the subjects using the standard and the advanced collaborative tool are interested and willing to try to use a collaborative tool. (Contains 4 tables.)