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Saudi Universities Electronic Portals: A Case Study of Northern Border University

  • Received : 2021.02.05
  • Published : 2021.02.28

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the current situation of the electronic portal of the Northern Border University, in terms of content and components, the extent of quality of use, service assurance and integrity, linguistic coverage of objective content, in addition to assessing the efficiency of the Blackboard e-learning platform and measuring the degree of safety of the portal, in addition to measuring the extent of satisfaction, through a sample that included 135 faculty members, as the researcher was keen to apply the case study methodology with the use of the questionnaire as the main tool for measurement, and the study found that there is an average trend among faculty members in the degree of content for the components of the portal and electronic security While it rose to good use, and very good at using the Blackboard platform.

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Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge the approval and the support of this research study by the grant no. 7624-EAR-2018-3-9-Ffrom the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, K.S.A.

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