What are the reasons for asymetry within telecollaboration? In addition to the status of the interlocuteurs that authors mainly refer to, we see them on a socio-institutional level and on the level of the different parters' courses and their aims. They are echoed by the instructions the teachers give their students for their online exchange. As an example, this study analyses a project called Grenover. The analysis shows, moreover, how the students handle different instructions coming from different teachers during their online interaction.