Exploring Users’ Perspectives on Co-Curricular Registration System using TAM Model

Abstract

The purpose of conducting co-curricular activities in Malaysia’s educational system is to help the students to achieve a balance life style between spiritual, mental and physical well-being. The Centre of Foundation Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA has developed a Co-curricular Registration System (CRS) to record all activities participated by the students. In addition, this online system can show the available activities for the students which make it easier for them to get updated information on any current and forthcoming activities. The good thing about this system is that the administrative officer can monitor the student’s achievement and performance directly through the CRS system. Besides that, CRS can make the student easily register co-curricular activities without facing the long queue and it helps the environment by reducing paper consumption. This research was conducted by using a set of questionnaire distributed to the students as the users in order to get the response of usefulness. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used to show the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness which act as internal variables that influence attitude and intention to use. This study found that the correlation coefficient value was higher, and there was a strong positive correlation between perceived ease of use and positive attitude towards CRS. The overall results showed perceived usefulness on user’s attitude, system quality, and perceived usefulness had positive effects on user’s intention to use the system as well as towards QR code in CRS.