Vocational College Management System (VCMS): An Innovation Project

Abstract

 The development of digital technology plays an important role in various human activities including the field of higher education. One of the uses of digital technology in management affairs such as examination management at Vocational College (KV). College Vocational Management System (CVMS) is a web-based Academic Management System for the use of Malaysian Vocational Diploma (DVM) at Pasir Mas Vocational College which was developed by the expertise of trained lecturers. This CVMS system was completed in January 2019. The problem faced by most lecturers is not having an efficient system that can facilitate exam management. Vocational College Management System (VCMS) is a KV examination management system developed to facilitate examination administration at KV. A survey involving 480 users of the VCMS system and findings related to the usefulness and ease of use of the VCMS system showed that the reaction of the majority of respondents was at a high level. However, from the aspect of readiness, there are several factors that cause VCMS users to be less interested in using it. The highest factor is the internet factor which is less satisfactory in most KVs which recorded a value of 62.5% of respondents. In addition, other factors that contribute to the problem of readiness to practice the VCMS system are lack of skills in the field of digital technology (attitude problems, task overlap problems, complicated system problems (complicated) and lack of training and exposure to the VCMS system. This finding shows that the behavior technological readiness is strongly influenced by four factors namely optimism (optimism), innovativeness (innovativeness), discomfort (discomfort) and anxiety (insecurity) in the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and also has a relationship with the factors of usefulness (usefulness) and ease of use (ease of use) which is recommended in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).