Usability Evaluation of Online Learning Management System: Blackboard, Google Classroom and Canvas

A learning management system (LMS) is a software program or web-based technology that is used to design, implement, and evaluate a learning process. Also, this allows an instructor to generate and distribute curriculum, track student involvement, and evaluate student performance These platforms had extended a great help especially now that students are in the mode of online education. The objective of this study is to assess the usability of Blackboard, Canvas and Google Classroom as an LMS based on the user’s satisfaction. Also, to know if there is a significant difference with these LMS in terms of usability. This study utilized a system usability scale questionnaire to determine the usability of Blackboard, Canvas and Google Classroom through online survey. One-way Anova is used to analyze the System Usability Rating and with the p-value of 0.054 which is greater than the alpha value 0.5, it is concluded that there is no significant difference between the usability and satisfaction of blackboard, Canvas and Google Classroom based on a usability criterion given.