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This work aims to model a collaborative authoring tool for learning communities with characteristics based on studies of the theory of knowledge and the modeling of human interactivity. The study also addresses the technological context of todays society, tending towards the characteristics and attitudes of social subjects, analyzing the importance of socio-interactionist concepts, tending towards the concept of learning communities. The tool is modeled using graphs and diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which clearly and precisely present the structure of the system, so that educators and scholars, even without in-depth knowledge of computer science, can understand how the environment works. The idea for this study arose from observing the various software programs developed for distance education courses and it became clear that there are insufficient tools for building collective knowledge, capable of composing a distance education system using a learning community approach.