The Positive Impact of Covid 19 in Encouraging the Growth of a

Smart Campus at the Private University in Surabaya

Firman Hadi Sukma P., Shofiya Syidada and Emmy Wahyuningtyas

Informatic Engineering, Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya, Jl. Dukuh Kupang XXV/54 Surabaya

Keywords: Smart Campus, Private University, Covid-19

Abstract: In 2020, the world will experience a covid-19 pandemic, forcing humans to carry out physical distancing.

This condition certainly makes the education sector, especially universities in Surabaya, unable to directly

carry out the learning process. This impact looks negative, but this physical distancing condition makes the

Private University in Surabaya increase its innovative campus services. Before the Covid-19 pandemic,

smart campus building was only a trend. So with the COVID-19 pandemic, the development of a smart

campus is a must. In this paper, the authors researched how the growth of smart campus development in

Surabaya private universities was seen from before the covid-19 pandemic to the time the covid-19

pandemic occurred. The first section in your paper.

1 INTRODUCTION

Since the first case of COVID-19 was announced in

Indonesia on March 2, 2020, all conditions have

changed. People's activities suddenly became very

different. In various mass media, #dirumahaja

campaigns and must maintain a distance. All

economic activity also slowed down. But there is

one activity that has increased in the COVID-19

pandemic situation, namely Online activities. All

activities are carried out online by utilizing an

internet connection service.

The impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019

(Covid-19) pandemic is now beginning to spread to

the world of education. It is an effort to prevent the

spread of Covid-19 transmission, so the educational

institutions will not carry out activities as usual; this

can diminish the spread of Covid-19. The same

thing has been done by various countries exposed to

this disease, lockdown or quarantine policies carried

out to reduce the interaction of many people who

can provide access to the spread of the Covid-19.

In the education area, especially at the higher

level, the Ministry of Education and Culture

(Kemendikbud) has asked all universities to provide

learning convenience in the Covid-19 emergency.

Helping the Government and the community to learn

from home, work from home, and carry out social

restrictions to break the chain of spreading

Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19). The Directorate

General of Higher Education (DitjenDikti) also

appealed to universities with their autonomy to

provide flexibility in implementing distance

lecturing activities during the Covid-19 emergency.

One of them is by implementing a smart campus

system (Kemdikbud, 2020).

This was done to limit the spread of the virus

until now, it has reached more than 460,000 corona

positive patients. The learning from home policy

began to be implemented on March 9, 2020, after the

Minister of Education and Culture issued circular

numbers 2 of 2020 and 3 of 2020 regarding online

learning and working from home to prevent the

spread of COVID-19.

All campus leaders in each area affected by

Covid-19 are asked to stop academic activities such

as face-to-face lectures. As a follow-up to this

circular, all universities were also asked to issue

policies regarding the online learning process for

students. Because of this, all universities in

Indonesia asked to make adjustments to this policy

to change all teaching and learning activities carried

out online. A system that can support the covid 19

pandemic conditions is a smart campus. This system

must exist in every university, especially the

distance learning process. All universities are

"forced" to build an e-learning system. For the

teaching and learning process, semester exams,

Sukma P., F., Syidada, S. and Wahyuningtyas, E.

The Positive Impact of Covid 19 in Encouraging the Growth of a Smart Campus at the Private University in Surabaya.

DOI: 10.5220/0010795500003317

In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science, Technology, and Environment (ICoSTE 2020) - Green Technology and Science to Face a New Century, pages 96-100

ISBN: 978-989-758-545-6

assignments, administrative registration, including

the graduation process, are carried out online.

The condition of the COVID-19 pandemic has

changed the paradigm of learning patterns,

interaction patterns and ways of managing the higher

education system. With the condition of the COVID-

19 pandemic which forces physical distancing, the

availability and utilization of ICT (Information and

Communication Technology) facilities is a public

demand and added value for college (Cronin, et.al,

2010).

A college that is not equipped with adequate ICT

facilities will overwhelm implementing the teaching

and learning system during the COVID-19

pandemic. The application of ICT in education

during the COVID 19 pandemic has made the

campus an entity to remain a source of access to

knowledge and research throughout the world even

though the situation forces studying from home

alone (Shofiya, et.al, 2020).

Make it easy information exchange, research

collaboration, improving student services, distance

learning, and between communities outside the

campus. The application of ICT will create

efficiency in campus management while increasing

the productivity of all elements of the academic

community to achieve a centre of excellence (Ambra

and Rice, 2011). The condition of the COVID 19

pandemic has turned out to be a positive motivation

for every village to become a smart campus by

implementing ICT in every activity.

2 RESEARCH METHOD

In this paper, research is conducted on the influence

that occurs on ICT use in one of the private

universities in Surabayawho that have implemented

smart campus, namely the University of Wijaya

Kusuma Surabaya, during the covid 19 pandemic

conditions. Data collected and analyzed is from May

2020 to October 2020 (6 months). The smart campus

system at Wijaya Kusuma University Surabaya uses

the main domain www.uwks.ac.id. Tool to collect

data using Alexa and google trends. The data seen

and analyzed is visit traffic, Alexa ranking, Keyword

trends from applications in the smart campus at

UWKS (Feng and Tang, 2010).

Figure 1. ICT

3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1 Traffic to Domain www.uwks.ac.id

a. Taken from the Similarweb tool, it shows the

following results from May 2020 to October

2020.

Source:https://www.similarweb.com/website/uwks.ac.id/#overview

Figure 2. Result form similar web

b. Taken from the SEMRush tool, it shows the

following results from May 2020 to October 2020.

Source:https://www.semrush.com/analytics/overview/?q=www.uwks.

ac.id&searchType=domain

Figure 3. Result from SEMRush

3.2 Alexa Rank from www.uwks.ac.id

a. Taken from the Alexa Rank, it shows the

following results from August 2020 to October

2020

The Positive Impact of Covid 19 in Encouraging the Growth of a Smart Campus at the Private University in Surabaya

Source: https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/uwks.ac.id

Figure 4. Result from The Alexa Rank

3.3 Keyword Trend

a. Taken from the similar web tool, it shows the

following results from May 2020 to October 2020

Source:https://www.similarweb.com/website/ uwks.ac.id/#search

Figure 5. Top 5 organic keywords

b. Taken from Google trend, it shows the following

results from May 2020 to October 2020

Source:https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2020-05-

05%202020-10-30&q=%2Fg%2F1235qkzl

Figure 6. Result from Google Trends.

3.4 Traffic Analysis from Domain

www.uwks.ac.id

a. From the traffic graph generated by the similar

web tool, the table is shown below

Table 1: the traffic graph generated by the similar web tool

May

2020

June

2020

July

2020

Aug

2020

Sept

2020

Oct

2020

50.000 55.000 55.000 40.000 90.000 120.000

To calculate the number of percentages that

occur from the beginning of the observation to the

end of the observation using this formula:

𝐷𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐



𝐼𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐  𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐

𝐼𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐

𝑥100% … … . 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝐴

So if the percentage is calculated= 7000/5000 x

100% = 140%

From the traffic graph generated by the SEMRush

tool, the table is shown below

Table 2: the traffic graph generated by the SEMRush tool

May

2020

June

2020

July

2020

Aug

2020

Sept

2020

Oct

2020

20.026 22.466 22.710 23.583 90.000 32.580

By using formula A, the resulting calculation of

traffic changes from the uwks.ac.id domain

according to SEMRuhs Tool is: 12554/20026 x

100%= 60%

The two data above shows an increase in the use

of the smart campus system at Wijaya Kusuma

University during the Covid 19 pandemic, which

was observed from May to October 2020.

3.5 Data Analysis of Alexa Rank from

Domain www.uwks.ac.id

Especially for data from Alexa Rank was observed

for 3 months, starting from August 2020 to October

2020. The smaller Alexa Rank figures indicate that

the domain is getting a lot of traffic. From the traffic

graph generated by Alexa Rank, the table is shown

below:

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Table 3: The traffic graph generated by Alexa Rank

Month Aug

2020

Sept

2020

Oct

2020

Alexa

Rank

380.593 366.810 233.465

From the data above, it can be seen that there is a

very sharp increase in Alexa Rank within three

months. From rank 380,593 to rank 233,465. An

increase of 147,128 points or 38.65% The

uwks.ac.id domain from 380 thousand to 230

thousand rankings occurred in just three months.

3.6 Data Analysis of Keyword Trend

from Domain uwks.ac.id

The services of the smart campus system at Wijaya

Kusuma University, Surabaya are all characterized

by having prayers at uwks.ac.id. So that you can

observe what users widely use applications by

looking at the trending keyword that refers to the

uwks.ac.id.

a. From the data generated by the similar web tool

during May 2020 to October 2020, 3 services

from the smart campus system were widely

accessed and generated 57.43% of the total

traffic to uwks.ac.id. These services are:

Elena.uwks.ac.id (e-learning system),

sidokar.uwks.ac.id (administration system),

Feb.uwks.ac.id (Economic faculty website). The

growth of the 3 services can be written in this

table

Table 4: 3 services from the smart campus system

Elena.

uwks.ac.i

Sidokar.

uwks.ac.i

Feb.uwks.

ac.i

244% 1.41% 973.7%

b. From the data generated by Google Trend

throughout May 2020 to October 2020, there are

3 services that have experienced growth, namely

pmb.uwks.ac.id (registration system),

elena.uwks.ac.id (elearning system),

sidokar.uwks.ac. id (administration system).The

growth of the 3 services can be written in this

table.

Table 5: 3 services that have experienced growth

Elena.

uwks.ac.i

Sidokar.

uwks.ac.i

Pmb.

uwks.ac.i

120% 300% 400%

From the results of the two tools to see the

keyword trend, 2 services are the same with high

growth from May 2020 to October 2020, namely

Elena.uwks.ac.id and sidokar.uwks.ac.id. The

growth of the Elena.uwks.ac.id service as a distance

learning system is very reasonable in the conditions

of the Covid-19 pandemic where all activities must

use physical distancing, including teaching and

learning activities between lecturers and students.

The same thing can be seen in the sidokar.uwks.ac.id

service, which is a service in the administration

sector such as employee and lecturer attendance,

lecturer research, and salary payments. The 300%

increase in growth in sidokar.uwks.ac.id services

shows the implementation of ICT running well in

the Universitas Wijaya Kusuma Surabaya.

4 CONCLUSION

The three parameters carried out by the observation,

namely Traffic Traffic, Alexa Rank Value, and

Keyword Trend carried out in May 2020 to October

2020, show a positive growth rate. And it is known

that during May 2020 to October 2020 period, all

activities in higher education must be restricted so

that it triggers growth in the use of smart campus

services.

The growth of smart campus services, which has

increased above 100%, is data that makes you

happy.Because the smart campus system with the

use of adequate ICT devices can work well. Before

the COVID-19 pandemic, lecturing activities were

mostly carried out offline, which actually had a

negative side: limited space and time for lecturers

and students.However, the covid-19 pandemic has

forced universities to implement smart campus

services free from time and space constraints. The

growth of the online learning system, which is

indicated by the number of accesses to

Elena.uwks.ac.id above 200% proves that the

learning process can be implemented freely and

borderless.

The COVID 19 pandemic, on the other hand, has

had a negative impact, but in terms of implementing

the smart campus system, it has had a positive

impact. It has made the academic community in

higher education in general, and in Wijaya Kusuma

University's environment in particular, smarter in

using ICT devices and accessing the smart campus

system

The Positive Impact of Covid 19 in Encouraging the Growth of a Smart Campus at the Private University in Surabaya

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