The subject of this paper is the application of Information and Communication Technology in the field of Online Education. The paper deals with the most important terms from the area of programming and online learning. The biggest challenge for the developers of online programming courses and also the main problem of this diploma paper was how to assess prior knowledge and skills of the course participators. The main aim of this paper was to demonstrate possible solutions for the assessment of programming skills derived from each of the learning management systems, i.e. the aim was to solve the biggest challenge that course developers face, which is writing code as an answer to a given question. The practical part of the paper displays the process of online tests execution in each of the chosen learning management systems (CANVAS, Moodle, iSpring, Suite, TalentLMS). The final part of the paper contains the comparison of the chosen systems based on the results of the research. The research proved that there is a possibility of creating and executing tests which enable a more effective assessment of programming skills during online learning.