International Journal of Research and Review Vol. 9; Issue: 9; September 2022 Website: www.ijrrjournal.com Research Paper E-ISSN: 2349-9788; P-ISSN: 2454-2237 International Journal of Research and Review (ijrrjournal.com) 372 Vol. 9; Issue: 9; September 2022 A Survey on Online Computer Practicum during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Students’ Perceptions Sutrisno Sutrisno 1 , Andre Hasudungan Lubis 2 1 Department of Industrial Engineering, Universitas Medan Area, Medan, Indonesia 2 Department of Informatics Engineering, Universitas Medan Area, Medan, Indonesia Corresponding Author: Andre Hasudungan Lubis DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20220942 ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic requires all of the educational institution to organize the online learning due to social distancing policy. The online computer practicum is the one method to comply the online learning during the pandemic. The study conducted a survey to scrutinize the students’ perceptions on the online computer practicum implementation in three perspectives: acceptance, satisfaction, and knowledge comprehension. A total 1155 students are selected as the respondent and the descriptive statistical analysis is employed as the means to analysing data. The findings show that students are satisfied and accepted the technology use. The knowledge transfer also runs properly from the instructor to students even it was hold by online. Keywords: Online Learning, Computer Practicum, Acceptance, Satisfaction, Knowledge. INTRODUCTION The computer practicum is an activity that usually organized in a computer laboratory in a university. Each of students held a computer with the direction from the instructor to follow the guidance of the learning material. As the one of the private university in Indonesia, Universitas Medan Area (UMA) organizes the computer practicum services by providing several computer laboratories and hundreds of computers to be used by students (Lubis & Sutrisno, 2019). However, the physical education progress is prohibited during the COVID-19 pandemic (Daniel, 2020). The social distancing is implemented to decrease the virus spread (Khasanah et al., 2020). Hence, UMA made a step to provide an online computer practicum to replace the usual activity in the computer laboratory. As the organizer of a computer laboratory in UMA, the Puskom (Pusat Komputer / Computer Centre) has been started the computer practicum since 1985, which aims to be an object of community service to prepare workforce skills of Computer Science and Technology. Puskom provides the opportunities for students to improve their ability to use computers, especially the use of applications through practicum activities and courses. The learning materials are various. It starts from a basic computer operating systems, Microsoft Office (namely: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point), creating blogs, and other applications such as Mendeley, and SPSS. However, the online practicum was executed during the COVID- 19 pandemic. An online practicum is the new construct of the education transformation with the improvement of the online education and computer technology, whereas the learning activity runs virtually and can be done everywhere (Ersin et al., 2020). In consequence of the first time organized, there was shortage of the online practicum implementation. A direct learning process in a laboratory is a usual activity by the instructors and students (Villanueva et al., 2020). Therefore, the study aims to