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