International Journal of Computer and Information System (IJCIS) Peer Reviewed – International Journal Vol : Vol. 03, Issue 01, February 2022 e-ISSN : 2745-9659 https://ijcis.net/index.php/ijcis/index Journal IJCIS homepage - https://ijcis.net/index.php/ijcis/index Page 34 The Effectiveness of Using E-Learning as an Online Learning Media at Polytechnic Indonusa Surakarta Suci Purwandari 1,* , Edy Susena 2 1 D3 Automotive Technology, 2 information Systems 1,2 Polytechnic Indonusa Surakarta 1,2 Street. K.H Samanhudi No. 31, Surakarta, Indonesia 1 suci@poltekindonusa.ac.id, 2 edysusena@poltekindonusa.ac.id Abstract— The Covid-19 outbreak has had a tremendous effect in no time. The Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia has adopted a policy to protect the nation's children from studying at home by means of distance education. Various technology platforms can be used to assist in the learning process. PJJ is e-learning-based learning. Indonusa Surakarta Polytechnic seeks to improve campus e-learning performance. To increase the use of e-learning, it is necessary to evaluate the use of campus E-Learning as an online learning medium at the Polytechnic Indonusa Surakarta. For a good evaluation, researchers conduct research in order to get feedback from users. The intended users are lecturers and students. The researcher used a qualitative descriptive method and the collection was done by means of a literature study and a questionnaire. The questionnaire used a linkert 4 scale, namely a 4 linkert scale questionnaire, namely Strongly Agree (Score 4), Agree (Score 3), Disagree (Score 2) and Disagree (Score 1). The methodology carried out begins with the formulation of the problem, data collection. The results of data collection were carried out by descriptive analysis so as to produce accurate conclusions. The conclusions of this study are: 67.2% of respondents agree during the pandemic and future online learning, 68.6% of respondents agree that lectures use the campus e-learning platform, 71.4% of respondents agree that campus e-learning is easy to use, 65 % of respondents agree that campus e-learning can facilitate learning between lecturers and students, 58.9% of respondents agree that campus e-learning can improve student competence, 90.2% of respondents agree that lectures use books/modules as lecture references, references in the form of printed books (59.4%) and E-Books (56.7%), The use of online learning platforms other than Campus E-Learning include: Zoom (56.3%), Gmeet (86.5%), Google Classroom (82, 5%), WhatsApp Group (71.9%), E-mail (36.5%) and others (9.4%). Keywords— Covid-19, effectiveness, learning, e-learning I. INTRODUCTION The Covid-19 outbreak appeared at the end of December 2019. Covid-19 originated in the city of Wuhan, China. Based on the online media TEMPO.CO, Jakarta on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 on the website https://tekno.tempo.co/read/1318504/who-virus-corona- covid-19-resmi-pandemi/full&view=ok, World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the Covid-19 disease had hit at least 114 countries and had killed more than 4,000 people officially became an international pandemic. WHO ordered all countries to fight and break the chain of spread of Cocid-19. Almost all sectors have been affected by the spread of Covid-19[1]. Indonesia is one of the countries that has been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak. Based on the official Corona information website (https://covid19.go.id/peta- sebaran ) owned by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) as of April 6, 2020. Meanwhile, globally, the Covid-19 outbreak has spread to 209 countries, 1,136,851 confirmed cases, and 62,955 deaths (data taken on January 1, 2022). The above conditions are predicted to increase day by day. With such conditions, the Indonesian government took a policy to unite against Covid-19. The government and the Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia have taken a policy to protect the children of the nation and the people of Indonesia to study at home and work at home and stay read at home. This is to stop the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak. Based on the Minister of Education and Culture Press Release, March 16, 2020, the Ministry of Education and Culture encourages Online Learning for Campuses in Areas Affected by the Covid-19 Outbreak[2] Because the distribution had arrived in Surakarta City, Surakarta City on March 14, 2020, the Mayor of Surakarta decided an Extraordinary Event (KLB) for Surakarta City. Thus, the ranks of education, from Kindergarten to Higher Education levels, took steps to eliminate learning activities in schools. The head of the University of the former Surakarta residency took steps to urge all students to return to their respective areas, while those who were unable to return had to stay in their boarding houses and be monitored by the campus. Learning is carried out online by utilizing the E-Learning of each campus. Likewise, educators are also expected to be able to carry out online lectures. Educational staff are required to take turns on campus, others continue to work from home. With this sudden policy, it requires educators, education staff and students to be able to work and study from home. This will cause serious problems in choosing a good learning method. Therefore, researchers will find out how far the Effectiveness of Using E-Learning as an Online Learning Media at Polytechnic Indonusa Surakarta. Information and communication technology (ICT) is developing from time to time. One of the positive impacts of the development of ICT is helping humans in carrying out various fields of work. One of them is the world of education. ICT supports the work of actors in the field of education. Technology is a messenger that can be used for learning purposes. UNESCO states that there are three goals in integrating telecommunications and information technology for learning, namely building knowledge based society habits, developing skills in using technology (ICT literacy), and increasing the