A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
E-complaints: A Semi-Structured E-forum at a University
Authors: Maria Ntinda, Robert Mafwila, Erkki Sutinen
Conference name: IST-Africa
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Publication year: 2020
Journal: IST-Africa
Book title : 2020 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa)
Journal name in source: 2020 IST-Africa Conference, IST-Africa 2020
ISBN: 978-1-7281-5774-0
eISBN: 978-1-905824-65-6
ISSN: 2576-859X
Web address : https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9144013
Universities operate in a competitive market and the way a university deals with complaints will significantly contribute to its reputation and performances [1]. The University of Namibia (UNAM) has a complaint system known as a student-lecturer forum, attended in a
physical venue. This forum allows UNAM management to respond to
students' complaints to improve services on campus. Currently, there is a low student and lecturer turn-up, resulting in a delay in feedback from the forum. Hence a
semi-structured e-forum, an alternative to the physical forum was
envisioned to accord all students an opportunity to express their
complaints. The paper presents the development of the UNAM e-forum aimed
to complement the existing physical forum. Furthermore, it presents and
analyses results obtained from a
usability study that found the developed e-forum easy to learn,
efficient to use, easy to remember, has few errors and pleasing to the
users based on its overall System Usability Scale (SUS) mean rating of
85
Keywords:
Complaints, e-forum, Lecturers, online, Structured, Unstructured University of Namibia