Abstract: Zoom is a video conferencing tool that allows individuals to meet and collaborate productively just like physically face to face, even when they can't meet in-person. This makes remote meetings more human. This is essential for users to feel and stay connected. Zoom cloud and instructional videos are platforms that are widely used for learning. This study compared the academics performance of experimental and control group students of National Diploma I and II (ND I and II) enrolled in java programming language, web technology and computer application packages for sciences as a computing courses in the school of applied sciences, department of Computer Science and Science Laboratory Technology at Kebbi State Polytechnic, Dakingari. The population of the study comprised of forty two (42) students participated as experimental group and forty five (45) as control group in all the three (3) selected courses. Therefore, a total of eighty seven (87) students participated in the study. Data were collected using 20 items essay test questions with reliability coefficients of 0.76 and analysed with SPSS-V21 using independent sample t-test after eight (8) weeks of continuous treatment. The study were guided by one (1) research question and one (1) null research hypotheses (Ho) at significance alpha value .05. The groups were exposed to pretest before the actual commencements of the treatments. The result of the posttest revealed that, there were no significant differences between the experimental and control group students’ performance that learned java programming language and web technology with t(28) = 1.606, p-val = .119, df = 28, mean difference (MD) = 11.933, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = [-3.284628, 27.151294] and t(7.567) = -1.801, p-val = .112, df = 7.567, mean difference (MD) = -16.857 and 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = [-38.66137, 4.94709] respectively while there is significant different in the academic performance of students that learned computer application packages for sciences with t(41) = 3.479, p-val = .001, df = 41, mean difference (MD) = 21.348 and 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = [8.95460, 33.74106]. The researchers concluded that there is no significant difference between the experimental and control group students that learned java programming language, web technology and computer application packages for sciences using zoom technology and instructional videos and others using traditional (classroom) method in the polytechnics learning system.

Keywords: Zoom technology, Instructional videos, Classroom, Website, YouTube, Computing courses, Students, Polytechnic.

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2023.10303