By increasing number of young people who choose the academic way for their lives, large-scale universities faced with information administration challenges. Student Information System (SIS) is one of the solutions in order to provide management facilities for educational and financial approaches. SIS is accessed and used by the university students, all levels of academic staff and university stakeholders. Determining the usability level of the SIS in a Human Computer Interaction perspective, is an important consideration for the universities. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the usability of the Near East University (NEU) SIS by using ISO/IEC 9126 standards. ISO/IEC 9126 model has the most suitable metrics for evaluating the internal usability of the systems. The result of this study will be helpful for NEU SIS developer team, in order to consider the improvement possibilities for the next version of the system.

Keywords: Usability; ISO/IEC 9126; Human Computer Interaction; student information system; quality model

By increasing number of young people who choose the academic way for their lives, large-scale universities faced with information administration challenges. Student Information System (SIS) is one of the solutions in order to provide management facilities for educational and financial approaches. SIS is accessed and used by the university students, all levels of academic staff and university stakeholders. Determining the usability level of the SIS in a Human Computer Interaction perspective, is an important consideration for the universities. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the usability of the Near East University (NEU) SIS by using ISO/IEC 9126 standards. ISO/IEC 9126 model has the most suitable metrics for evaluating internal usability of the systems. The result of this study will be helpful for NEU SIS developer team, in order to consider the improvement possibilities for the next version of the system.