This paper describes the experience of using several web 2.0 tools as part of academic assessment for teaching students in engineering at Master of Science level in "Politehnica" University of Timisoara Virtual Campus. The students used blogs, wikis and several other open source tools as part of their academic assessments, for a semester. They reported this as a positive experience and we believe that integrating some web 2.0 technologies in the academic activity facilitated innovative explorations, experimentation and profound thinking and analyse from students.