The in-house developed Web-based Online Assignment Submission (OAS) system is a robust web-based online assignment submission system for students and tutors at Wawasan Open University. With respect to the demands of its fairly diverse and mobile student population and to the constraints of submission of students’ assignments, the first in-house built OAS was developed in late 2007. It was created especially to facilitate students’ online assignment submission anywhere, anytime and make it for possible tutors to download students’ Tutor-Marked Assignment (TMA) and upload marked assignments together with online feedback to individual students. The OAS has been through developmental changes several times since it first debuted in July 2008. Such developmental changes have yet to be evaluated from the end-user perspective. The intention of the system was to better facilitate end-users experiences compared to previous or existing systems. This study looks into students’ and tutors’ responses regarding perceived efficiency, helpfulness, control and learnability of in-house built OAS. A survey questionnaire was distributed to students and tutors to obtain data. The findings of this study suggest both that participants were generally quite positive in their overall impression of the four tested components. Tutors responses were found to be more positive than students in terms of the efficiency component. This study also verified the perceived positive features of OAS and identified some concerns about features that need to be further improved such as inflexibility to revise mistakes and length of time it takes to upload files. Findings of this study can help to provide guidelines for similar future system development to an OAS in an e-learning institution.
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Paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Active Learning (2012; Universiti Teknikal Malaysia, Melaka, Malaysia)
Evaluating in-house Online Assignment Submission System (OAS) in an e-learning environment: a case study
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Evaluating OAS
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