Abstract:
The COVID 19 pandemic forced Malaysian Higher Education Institutions to pursue online
and distance learning This study aimed to gain insight into the pre university students’
acceptance and intention to use the Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) application for online
learning platforms during the pandemic This group of students was chosen because they
had just finished high school and their transition from the school system to the university
system with online learning will pose many difficulties The theoretical framework for
this study was developed using the Technology Acceptance Model ( with additional
facilitating conditions and computer self efficacy as the external elements The
participants were 180 pre university students from Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian
Institute of Information Technology who had experience using MS Teams during their first
semester With SPSS, the predictive factors on the acceptance of students toward online
learning have been explained The findings also indicate that the proposed TAM based
scale successfully explained the factors predicting intention to use MS Teams during the
pandemic The findings assist researchers and practitioners in developing a more
comprehensive view of pre university students’ acceptance and intention to use
MS Teams Finally, several recommendations have been made, including the implications
and limitations of the study at the end of this paper to reference future research
