Impacts of TAM-based External Factors on Blackboard System Continuance Usage

Abstract

Blackboard solutions have been deployed in most Saudi Arabia universities, but it appears that the students who use blackboard system were incapable to the imperative blackboard system. The main motives for this might be that students do not accept and usage the blackboard system suitably. This study will make involvement to the present body of TAM theory components and adding others external construct like “social learning, IT infrastructure & system excellence, and course quality”. Author focus on blackboard system use in Taibah University; data gathered from online survey of students using blackboard system. Then, the proposed model was investigated and tested, for analysis smart PLS was used.

Keywords: Blackboard, technological acceptance model (TAM), partial least squares (PLS).