The Quality of Learning System by Using Online Learning Technology based on SIPDA during Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

One impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic on the education is the implementation of online learning policy. All the educational institutions are encouraged to develop any online learning platforms and continue to socialize the use of the online learning system to all the academic community. This research aims to assess the quality of online learning conducted by the instructors and college students at the Language and Arts Faculty. The data were obtained through a response questionnaire that distributed to the college students. There are 3294 respondents who took part in this research that consist of the college students who are from the study program of Bahasa Indonesia, Indonesian literature, English literature, Educations of English language, German language, French language, arts, dance, music and performing arts. The research results showed that the implementation of the online learning has a good quality based on the results of the college students’ responses. However, there are several weaknesses in the implementation of the online learning process, such as there are still a small proportion of the instructors (15 percent) who have not been able to use the Unimed online learning information system (SIPDA), and the low feedback provided by the instructors to the college students. The findings of this research then become an input for the head of the Language and Arts Faculty to arrange the online learning policy which will later become a standard guideline for the online learning at the Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Negeri Medan.