Usability Evaluation of an Educational Website in Saudi Arabia

Despite the widespread use of online applications and websites, inadequate attention is paid to their usability aspect. Always there is a need to evaluate the usability of these applications and website specially the educational one to improve their user friendliness. The idea behind this research is to evaluate the usability of an educational website in Saudi Arabia. For this research we have considered a number of ways of usability evaluation, but find user based method [7] specifically Heuristic evaluation method to be easier and more cost-effective way to evaluate the usability of educational websites. A questionnaire was developed to accumulate the data. Then survey is conducted based on this questionnaire, by providing this questionnaire to different undergraduate students in one of the universities in Saudi Arabia.Despite the widespread use of online applications and websites, inadequate attention is paid to their usability aspect. Always there is a need to evaluate the usability of these applications and website specially the educational one to improve their user friendliness. The idea behind this research is to evaluate the usability of an educational website in Saudi Arabia. For this research we have considered a number of ways of usability evaluation, but find user based method [7] specifically Heuristic evaluation method to be easier and more cost effective way to evaluate the usability of educational websites. A questionnaire was developed to accumulate the data. Then survey is conducted based on this questionnaire, by providing this questionnaire to different undergraduate students in one of the universities in Saudi Arabia