The purpose of this research is to describe the needs of students of the Indonesian Language and Satra Education study program related to the aspects of reading materials and platforms that can facilitate the online learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic. The method used in this study is a qualitative exploratory method with an inductive approach. Through this method, data is obtained based on questionnaire documentation distributed via google form. The research sample was obtained through purposive sampling technique from three universities in Riau: Riau University, Suska Riau Islamic State University, and Riau Islamic University. Furthermore, this study uses thematic data analysis techniques to identify themes through the results of the questionnaire to find important or interesting patterns from the data and use these to discuss or find the purpose of this study. The results of the analysis show that students need teaching materials in the form of audio in the form of narrative voices to hone and test their listening skills specifically for listening only. Then, students also need to listen to audio-visual in the form of videos to hone and test the overall listening power of these students. Because during the Covid-19 pandemic, all the things needed to listen to that which were of great interest to students were published online through digital classes with the Google Classroom platform. This is evidenced by the results of a survey of 64% of students requiring online learning with audio, visual, audio-visual teaching materials through Google Classroom digital classes. The results of this need are used to develop learning materials as a form of innovative learning products during the Covid-19 pandemic on campus.

Quiz is one of the assessment items that can be addressed to the students. Technological development helps its distribution and assessment quickly. One of the media that can be used is called kahoots. Through the utilization of kahoots, it can be described the students’ motivation in learning to take the Indonesian language discourse quiz. Descriptive qualitative method was used in this research. The sample of this study was 2017A batch of students with 34 participants. This study used a motivational questionnaire that was made in the form of a checklist with an assessment range of 1 to 5 to describe students' learning motivation in taking quizzes related to Indonesian discourse theory. After collecting the data, 30% of the lower group was calssified as a learning group that had a low level of motivation, meanwhile, 30% of the upper group was categorized as a group that had a high level of motivation. In analyzing the data, this study followed the stages which were identifying, changing the value of categories into assessment scores and analyzing. The result of the research showed that students was highly motivated in taking the Indonesian language discourse quiz by applying kahoots and it was proven by a score which was 86%.

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This study aims to describe the results of product trials based on the development of needs analysis results and product validation results that have been assessed. The product developed was LKPD in writing explanatory texts for high school students. This research is part of research and development (R&D) research. The method used in this research is qualitative and quantitative. Products are tested on students on a small scale. The product was tested on a class XI student of SMA Dharma Loka Pekanbaru. Data collection techniques were carried out through the questionnaire and test stages. Questionnaires were given to students to describe the quality of teaching materials (LKPD) that had been made through filling out questionnaire instruments. The test is given to students in accordance with the instructions and questions in the LKPD so a score is obtained based on established assessment criteria. Data obtained, analyzed through SPSS. The results of the data analysis provide an overview of the aspects of content eligibility, aspects of language readability, presentation of material, and graphics which have very strong correlations for the preparation of LKPD. This is indicated by the level of correlation of the aspect of content eligibility 0.852 with a significance level of 0.000 <0.5; aspects of language readability 0.759 with a significance level of 0.000 <0.5; presentation of material 0.979 with a significance level of 0.000 <0.5; and graphics 0.702 with a significance level of 0,000 <0.5.

This study aims to determine the level of students' ability to write expository texts through a constructivism approach. The class that was used as the experimental class was class X MIPA A, which amounted to 35 students with a sample that would be used as many as 30 students. The data of this research is an essay test instrument which is carried out at the time of the pre-test before the learning process is carried out, and the post-test which is carried out after the learning process is carried out. From the results of the study, the average pre-test was 60.63, and the post-test average was 81.93. From the results of hypothesis testing, it was obtained that tcount < ttable at the 95% confidence level or 1-5 percent, namely 0.7428 <2.0450, so the average post-test value in the experimental class was significant. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that learning using a constructivist approach can help improve students' ability to write expository texts, which can be seen from the average value of pretest to posttest.