The article considers the expediency of developing and using the electronic environment of a higher education institution. It was found that the existence of such an electronic environment of a higher education institution would allow us to effectively use the available resources of higher education. A model of the electronic environment of a higher education institution is proposed, which consists of 4 components: educational, scientific, organizational, and managerial. The structural elements of each of the components are described. An example of the implementation of such an electronic environment on the example of the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University is considered. The personal offices of the student and the teacher, which are realized according to the given model at the Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, are considered in detail. It is established that the indisputable advantage is the complete identification of the person who went to different parts of such an environment, another advantage is the integrated use of logins and passwords to all these components.