E-learning students are generally heterogeneous and have different capabilities knowledge base and needs. The aim of the Sumy State University (SSU) e-learning system project is to cater to these individual needs by assembling individual learning path. This paper shows current situation with e-learning in Ukraine, state-of-art of development of the adaptive e-learning systems and shows results of SSU research in this area. Nowadays the received solutions are different from the known analogues considering an expanded set of information about the features of a particular student's learning activities (19 indicators are analysed, including indicators of progress such as the level of knowledge and student individual features). The corresponding software solutions are being tested in the SSU e-learning environment.