The Usability of QR-Code Electronic System in Lapu-Lapu City College: An Assessment Study

Abstract

As of today, many educational institutions adapted different strategies in gathering, writing, and utilizing data or information of documents. For 3 years of studying in Lapulapu City College, the researchers noticed that the school is still using paper-based method in gathering information of students and instructors in which it could cause an inaccurate and time-consuming of collecting data. In terms of collecting necessary information, Ayop, et.al. (2018) stated that the conventional attendance system was still used in most universities.  However, this type of attendance system suffered problems like missing names, false attendance, missing attendance sheet, and tedious management. This research aims to improve the efficiency of data recording through the use of 2 dimensional barcode or the QR-Code. This study used mixed research design to measure the usability of QR-Code Electronic System and the suggestions of technical experts and Slovin’s formula in gathering the population and sample size of the respondents. Each respondent was given a questionnaire through Google forms to gather their responses. This study was also assisted by the technical experts in creating and designing the QR-Code Electronic System. The results of the study were garnered. Using the Likert scale, 1 is the lowest and 4 is the highest, it showed that QR-Code Electronic System is beneficial in attendance/ID system with a weighted mean of 3.35 where it showed that this is the most crucial process in data recording and the lowest is 2.28. According to the results, the top specific transactions that may be expedited or shortened when using QR-Code in Lapulapu City College are the following: Enrollment got the highest mean average of 3.41, followed by 3.38 for attendance of student respondents and 3.09 for attendance and school entry for administration and staff. The lowest mean rating are the clinic appointment and Student Affairs Office that garnered 3.16 for student respondents and 2.90 for administration and staff respondents respectively. The highest mean rating garnered were the most highly effective when in terms of data efficiency and the lowest mean rating garnered were the least effective on implementing the QR-Code Electronic System. The recommendations of the study were the proposed QR-Code Electronic System that would utilize in gathering, storing, reading, and recording data through the use of 2 dimensional barcode or QR-Code. This system would be beneficial to the specific transactions inside LLCC to ensure data efficiency, and data integrity.