USING MICROSOFT TEAMS APPLICATION IN ONLINE LEARNING OF ART EDUCATION COURSES AT OPEN UNIVERSITY OF PINRANG REGENCY

Abstract

This study aims to determine the benefits of using the Microsoft Teams application in online learning of art education
courses at the Open University (UT) at Pinrang Regency. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods as
research procedures which produce descriptive data in the form of written or spoken words from people and
observable behavior. The sample of this research was 8 students who took art education courses. The results of the
research are divided into several discussion indicators, the first is how students know about Microsoft Teams, students
know that Microsoft Teams is a supporting application to help in the learning process and Microsoft Teams itself has
been known by students since 2021 to assisting the learning process in art education courses in elementary school.
Then regarding the indicators for the Microsoft Teams benefit, it’s found that a distance is not a problem anymore in
learning, the students can still discuss, and they found their self can save more time, energy and costs in the learning
process. But apart from that, the stability of the network really become a major problem that faced by the students
and its become an evaluation to be solve for the future online learning using Microsoft Teams.