Factors influencing students' academic performance during online classes case study at UiTM Arau, Perlis

Online Distance Leaming was introduced since 2020 because the origin of the COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia can be traced back to the first case arriving on Malaysian shores on January 25. 2020, when a passenger from China tested positive for the virus. Because of that, students need to adapt with a sudden new type of learning from home. The changes related to the pandemic has afrected the educational context including student itself. The purpose of this study are to determine the relationship and factors influencing students' academic performance (CGPA). Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) and Pearsons' Corrletion Analysis was used in this study.The sample of 52 UiTM Arau, Perlis students' from two programme diploma CS143 and degree CS248 College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics was selected using stratified sampling. The sources of primary data by using online survey form was employed to collect the data. The independent variables for factors influencing students' performance in this study were daily sleeping hours, daily study hours. subject taken, credit hour taken, study environment and study lifestyle. The results of this study shows that the study environment statistically significant influencing to students academic performance (CGPA) with p-value 0.033. Besides, study environment (r=-0.336, p-value = 0.007 and credit hour taken (r=-0.240 , p-value=0.043) significantly has weak negative relationship with CGPA Meanwhile, others factors showed no significant relationship with CGPA with p-value > 0.05.