High School Students’ Experience Using Learning Management System on Chemistry In Age of Pandemic

Abstract

During the pandemic, LMS is getting popular for facilitating learning. LMS is a software application for network or online activity and an electronic learning program (e-learning program). This study aims to identify high school students’ learning chemistry experience with the Learning Management System (LMS) in the Pandemic Era. Fifty-four high school students of 12th grade from high schools in Karanganyar, Indonesia, participated in this research. The survey was used as the methodology. The survey instrument consists of 33 items, which are divided into six parts: student profile, analysis of the needs of internet, analysis of the needs of mobile phones, analysis of the implementation of learning chemistry during the pandemic, LMS application that has been used, and the mobile learning design expectations. The finding shows that most students use the internet more than 5 hours a day with the main priority for online learning, so they are consuming 10-20 GB of internet data per month. In online learning, most students use mobile phones. During the pandemic, the learning majority only consisted of assignment to practice problems via Whatsapp Group, Google classroom, Microsoft Teams, Google form, or watching videos via YouTube. With LMS, students feel sufficient and comfortable to support learning during this pandemic. Chemistry LMS is expected to contain a collection of materials, virtual, practice questions, a set of formulas, and animation.