Portal of Tracer Study System Based on Multiple Platform and Social Network Approach to Improve Alumni Participation

Background: Designing effective and acceptable media in collecting alumni data becomes one of the important tasks in higher education institution. Due to the fact, history of alumni data is used for various purposes such as to evaluate curriculum in higher education institutions and to map the characteristics of alumni performance in their works. To this goal, some methods have been proposed in the kinds of literature, such as a web-based questionnaire. However, these methods are still lacking alumni participation because it is not informative and not interactive enough to deliver two-ways information between the alumni and also technology coverage is a problem. The method also cannot guarantee the security aspect of the sent data. Method: as the solution, a multi-platform portal for tracer study based on social networking is proposed, as according to its concept, social networking covers three main criteria is: informative, security, and community. The performance of developed portal is compared to traditional methods, where the number of alumni participated toward these methods is measured. Conclusion: the experimental results show that the number of participants improves up to 130.76% on average, compared to the traditional methods.