Software applications in academic setting awareness and satisfaction

The contribution brings latest findings from the survey on social software applications and their satisfaction with them with special focus on their potential in the process of education. The survey was conducted at the University of Hradec Králové, at its two faculties within the framework of a large project “Evaluation of the modern technologies contributing towards forming and development university students´ competences”. Data were collected from more than three hundred students via an on-line questionnaire and then processed. The goal of the research was to map the utilization of selected social software applications networking systems among university students at the University of Hradec Králové. Two main sub-goals were to find out what the awareness of social networking systems among our students is and in case they know the software application what is their level of satisfaction with it. As a starting point to a follow-up research might be useful a statistical view on factors influencing utilization of social applications.