 I welcome all of you to this live session. So we have planned this live session in three slots today. So initially we will take the questions on latex and then we will have questions on soft skill and workplace communication and then English for oral and written communication. So I'll just, I think many of you are new to MOOCs. So I suggest that if you are totally new to MOOCs, so I suggest that you join the demo course where you will get an idea like how to navigate the course and then it will be easier for you to manage your course well. And many people have asked whether, when they will get the certificate. So the answer is, you'll get the certificate after the course ends. So I think we have made all these courses as a self-paced course. That means you can join anytime within this period of July 15th to July, November 15th is the last date and you can register up to October 16th. And within these four months you can take the course as you wish in your own pace. And after you finish the course, immediately after the course ends, you will get the certificate. So it will be around the November middle or end. For English course, it will be end of November because there's also some manual grading required. So that is a common question which a lot of people want to know. So my only thing is you have to clear the course. So unless you clear the course with the passing grade, you will not get the certificate. So once you clear the, so you can always see your progress in the progress bar. And if you have any questions regarding any of the administrative problems, you can always email to course support at the rate, csc.itb.ac.n. So that is what I want to tell. And regarding any subject related questions, you have to always post on the discussion forum because the discussion forum is the place where you should ask any subject related questions. And if you have any administrative related questions like your login problem, password problem, or certificate issues, all those questions you can always send an email. And if it is a problem, then we will sort it out. So please feel free to post your questions either on discussion forum or send it to us through email. So without much ado, now I invite Feroza to answer latex related questions. So thank you all. And I wish you good luck. And I hope you'll do well in all the courses in which you have joined. Thank you. Thank you, madam. So yes, welcome everybody to this interactive live session. So as Kalpramam said, we will be starting with the later course. And I'm Feroza, I'll be handling all your queries. So let's get started with, sorry. Feroza, sorry to interrupt it. Can you, so the one more thing I just want to add, like whoever is asking questions, they should switch on their audio as well as their video because we are recording the session. So Feroza, if you're, it'll be nice if you can come on the camera. Thank you. Yes, Feroza. So welcome everybody. So let's get started with the questions that you have asked using the Google form which was circulated. So the first one is, what is the use of Lipsam? Lipsam is nothing but lower Mipsam. So some dummy text that does not make sense which is actually used by designers and typesetting industry to fill in the gaps in a document or say if you're designing a website and you want to show how the content will appear. Say you have your header which is big, then you have some content on the left, you have some content in the center, maybe some content in the footer, you know all these things but you have to fill it up. Otherwise how will people understand how your website is looking or how your document is looking? Well, so that is what actually Lipsam is. So Lipsam over here is a package which is actually using the lower Mipsam website for generating random text. So in day to day life you will not need it except like you're showing a demo or something like that which I have already specified. So like in the course like we are displaying multiple paragraphs. Why? So that we like we don't have to scroll up and down and I don't want to bother by writing hello, how are you or some random text manually. So Lipsam is nothing but dummy text. Is latex still relevant today with word being widely used? Well, a very big yes. Latex is definitely being used and as time is passing by many more people are using it. Well, in fact now journals and conferences many of them not all though but they are now making it mandatory to use. So well it is latex is becoming popular day by day. It started almost 30, 35 years back and professionals, academicians, scientists all of them use it irrespective of the field. So like if you are even in it's not that just CS people use it or just programming people use it. Well, it's a wrong conception. Even people in humanities, people in biology, people in civil, mechanical all of them use it. Yeah, okay. So the other question is how to start a paragraph from the next page instead of the same page. We'll say suppose you're writing a document and you want to have a paragraph on the next page. So what you would do before you start the paragraph you would write a command called slash page break which we have also seen in our sessions I guess in topic three. So well after whatever you write after slash page break naturally the contents or the paragraph will appear on the next page. Sure. The other one is will latex be taught using Windows platform or Linux? Well, to answer this latex can be used on any operating system. So what code that you write, you write in your .tech file and then when you build and run it, you get a PDF file. So latex generates a PDF file which it will be the same irrespective of your operating system. So here we use Ubuntu but while recording the lectures we used Windows operating system. So to answer your question when it doesn't matter whether the course is using Windows or Linux or Mac it is just that you install latex and you'll get started with it. In Beamer, next question. In Beamer you taught two transition styles slash pause and slash on slide. Are these the only transition styles in latex or there are some other two? Well, to answer your question these are nothing but overlays. So yes, there are other styles. There is another one called slash only command with which you can have text only on that particular slide of the document. So let me just present my screen. Yes, can everybody see my screen? Yes ma'am. Yes ma'am. I'll just change the document class as Beamer and instead of this hello everyone we'll say begin a frame slash begin frame where then we'll say that let's have some random text. First line, then we'll put slash slash we'll say second line with a new line another one called third line. Let's build and run this I pressed F5. So as you can see we have these three lines on the same presentation slide. Well if you want that first slide should appear only on one slide, second should appear on the second one third should appear on the third one where there's another command called slash only and then in the angular brackets you would write one. Similarly, you can write two here and third you'll write three and let's build and run this. Sorry, just one second. Yeah, you have to put it in curly braces. So first line, then comes a second line, the third line. Let's build and run this now. It's a, there's no frame to end here. Okay, but let's say slash only one, two and three seems okay. Let's build and run again. No, why does it say that end frame is not required? It has actually generated but I'm not sure why the error message is. Let's say I'll put this up as, I'll put it up on the discussion forum after editing it. Let's see, it should work. Document class, VMI, things are looking fine but let's see, I'll resolve the error. I just don't want to waste time of everybody. So there would be other ways as well. I mean, many other packages are also there. If you want, you can actually Google C10. So it's a comprehensive tech network which actually has multiple packages. So if you go there, you will find the packages for your own discipline as well. Okay, the next command is, the next question is how to write a subscript and superscript shapes like arrow, circle, et cetera. So a superscript and subscript we have covered in mathematics section. So let me write a document class article and let me just comment this out. We can document and document. So say you want to write two raise to two. So in dollars, you would write two. Then this operator, which is on the keyboard number six. So two raise to two and let's build and run this. So as you can see, the number two is in superscript. And similarly say you want, say let's make a three. Say another one you want two and subscript three. So you would write underscore and three and let's build and run that. So now you have two raise to three and two subscript of three. So this is how you add superscript and subscript. The second question, the next question was how do we add shapes like arrows and circle? So let me go to the website. So if you see there is a, I've opened up a PDF. You can Google comprehensive latex symbols and you would, the very first link would be this PDF file, just open it. It's a very large document of 348 pages. And let's say we, you want arrows. So let's go search over here, arrows. So it's on table number 139, let's click on it. So when you get all these kind of arrows, say you want an arrow on top of a particular letter or a word, so that would be wek. Let's Google slash, let's search slash wek. So well, let's search more. Yeah, so say if you write slash wek and in curly braces you write a, it will appear something like this. So well, if you just copy paste this, it would appear. All right, let's go to the next question. In the topic on use of reference link URLs in article, I constantly get a message while running the code require package ref count. Well, the reason is that not the entire latex is installed. So when you installed either using mixtec or Techlight, not entire latex has got installed. Some packages have got missed out. Well, there are ways to do that. So you open mixtec console, then click updates and check for updates. If there are any updates, update it, click update now. Then go to the packages. So in the left pane, there will be something called as packages. Click on packages and then in the text box, you write ref count package and then click on the plus sign that means you're installing the package. So this way, I guess you will be able to resolve this error. Next question, yes, I'll share the PDF link. Not this one, yeah, this is it. I'll share it in a while. Say in the topic on making presentation using Beamer, I get install package Beamer based to screen.st why not found? So like what I suggested in the previous question is you open mixtec and maybe you can search this particular file in mixtec and install it. You should be able to resolve this error. If not, please feel free to get back on the discussion forum. Another is I'm using Macbook Pro running on MacOS Catalina. The application downloaded for using latex I would like to know whether all the features that is being shown in tech studio can be used in texture. Well, to answer this question, I have opened up a VK article which says comparison of text editors. Well, so these are the various tech editors and these are the parameters here. So let's say editing style, operating systems, stable, release version, cost, license, you know, all those things. So well, if you go down there is something called as tech shop. What you can do is you can compare. So well, if you go to see a tech studio is supported on Linux, Windows and Mac OS whereas tech shop is only on Mac OS. It is free. Both are GPL versions, but one is I get version number two. Here version number is not listed. And what is this particular column saying integrated viewer. Integrated viewer is what we see on the right. So well, yes, it says that there is an integrated viewer. So if you go to see basic things are differently matching with tech studio, coming to the properties of an editor. So which is inverse search, BD support, organizers project, menu for inserting symbols, document comparison, spell check, multiple undo and redo. So well, that would also be, that is also very similar except that here there are two nodes, which is organizing of project and BDs. In fact, even this one, so you cannot have comparisons here, but other things, other features are definitely supported. Over here, like you have collapsible sections, find and replace using regular expressions. So parenthesis matching. So well, if you see only the very first column saying collapsible section is not supported and tech shop where but when tech studio test supported, other things are like quite a yes. So if you compare more or less, you will be able to use all the features of tech studio in tech shop. But of course, each editor has its own advantages and disadvantages, but actually it doesn't matter. So you can use tech shop if you like. Yeah, so then I'm unable to compile the file using tech studio more than two pages. It was showing errors. I could not comprehend the question. So can you please write in the chat or on the discussion forum exactly what were the errors you were facing? Second thing, a second question which you have posted is using article class, the table of contents gives me 0.1, 0.2. Well, it means that your document does not have a section, but it has a subsection. So let's see what does that mean. Let me just comment this out and let's say I'm adding some content here and instead of a section, I'm writing subsection. All right, let's say title and let's generate the table of contents using the table of contents command. Let's build and run it two times. Two times why? Because table of contents get generated only when you build and run your document two times. So as you can see here, 0.1, which is actual subsection and the title has 0.1 because there is no section. Which section does it correspond to? Like it doesn't have a parent. Similarly, table of contents also has something similar. So let's add another subsection here slash subsection. Let's say another one. Let's build and run this two times. So you see another 0.2 has appeared. Now let's say let's add a section here. Section called hello. So now this is one and this is 1.1 but since this doesn't have a section, this is still 0.1. Similarly, the table of contents is also updated. So now if you add a section just above that, your problem would be solved. I hope I have answered this too. And somebody has asked, how do you write a document in latex? Well, I request you to please refer the lecture materials, video, slides, code, enhanced article. Well, the actual course is about writing document in latex. If you have a specific query, I'll be happy to answer. So I'm done with the questions which are posted on the Google form. Well, let's see the questions which are asked here. Ma'am, I'm new to this course. I am using TechWorks but after run, it doesn't show the PDF file. It says there's a problem with some missing files. What missing file is exactly? The question is by prepulsing. Also, maybe can you also check whether the tech file, the PDF file appears in the folder where you have saved it. So like for example over here, test.tech, it is shared in furusa desktop latex test.tech. So if this doesn't appear, due to some reason, let's go to the desktop latex. Yeah, so you see there are many other files which have got generated along with the PDF file. Can you please check whether this, these files, so if you want, you can please speak, you can unmute and speak prepulsing. Ma'am, can I ask a question? Sorry? I have a question about horizontal and vertical spacing and first line indents and all that. Sure, we'll come to it. But since like I have already opened up this question, prepulsing, could you please unmute yourself and? Okay, I'll wait till later. Thank you. Yes, please. Thank you so much. Ma'am, I will again make the program and send to the screen to your live. Sure, that's good. What is the problem? What exactly is the problem? It is not able to see the PDF on the right. It's a PDF on the right. The problem it is not installed. The viewer is not there integrated. So is it using tech studio? Are you using tech studio? Which latex editor are you using? Okay, people will come back to you. How do you use different font styles like aerial, black, font and tech studio? So latex, the current one, the font that is there, which is computer modern font of text. So if you want to use particular font styles, I have covered it in topic three, but let me show you here. Latex font styles. Yes, a second, let me start the course. Let me show you from the course itself. Yeah, so if you refer to this latex font catalog, it gives you different styles that you would need. So set a fonts which are similar to Times New Roman are put up here. So you can refer to any particular one. Say you want, say this particular one. So if you click here, it will show you how you can use it. So you have to use a package and then you'll say use package allegria and then using this command and then the normal font will give you this. IT shape will give you this style, italic, BF series will give you this style. So this is another one. Let's go. These are the serif fonts and serif fonts which are similar to Arial will give you these type of fonts. So you can choose any one of them and you can actually go ahead with it. Similarly, like if you click a particular one and you would see it would get generated in this way and these are the commands that you need to insert. Yeah. So what I'll do is I'll just put these links on the chat. So it's latex font catalog. And let me put the symbols also on the chat and comparison of latex editors as well. Ma'am, can you send this PDF link for reference? Okay. Amani is writing, we have literature background but we are getting scientific method questions in grades. Can you suggest a simple way to overcome this problem? Scientific method questions as in, you mean in the graded quizzes? Well, I don't think there is any scientific question in graded quizzes or graded assignments. Could you speak Amani? Yes ma'am. Yes, please. Ma'am, well we're doing that questions in grade ma'am. Somehow we are getting some questions like in scientific method related to technology or a technical related engineering courses. Which particular one because I do not recall? Petent course ma'am, related to patent rights? Related to? Petent rights. Petent rights. I'm sorry, which course are you talking of latex course? No ma'am, socks kiss only. Okay, sorry. So like I'm currently addressing the latex course. Okay, so may you can ask this question? Somebody would definitely answer this. My session is still for another 10, 15 minutes. After that you can definitely ask this question. Sure ma'am, thank you. Anju is asking, while preparing project reports every time it becomes a problem to align the images in the right place. But every time the position keeps changing and we are unable to make it at the proper place. What can be done in this regard? So images are usually trial and error ones. Latex actually positions it where it feels it is best for the reader to actually refer to images. So if you want the images to appear exactly in the same way, well it would depend on how much content also you have written in the document along with the images. So a better way would be to add a box bracket here. So when you write slash begin figure and then you have your include graphics package and all other commands, you can write a position which is itch. In case it still doesn't work out, what you can do is you can make it capital H and include a package called float slash use package float. So well that would place the figure exactly where you have positioned it. So you could try this out. How to include EPS files in latex? The very way, the same way as you would include a .jpg or a .png file, just write an extension dot EPS and it will work. Pretty well yes, PDF latex did not succeed. MiTek compiler driver did not succeed. What it seems is that MiTek itself is not installed properly. Could you do me a favor if you could just uninstall MiTek and install it once again. And when you're installing a MiTek in case it gives you basic version or full version, choose the full version so that you get all the packages. Man, when I was downloading this as a link given by you in the first part of the lecture. Right. There was only one option for this like it automatically starts downloaded. Ah yes, after downloading when you are installing. When you're installing in case it gives you. So like I'm over here on MiTek page and let me click the downloads button and say if I'm on Windows. So usually I would get this particular link. In case you are having different additions, maybe you could, I guess not this one. So I don't think you should go in for this one. So you could go in for this. And after that you could if I installing if it asks you to go for basic version or advanced, you can go in for a full latex version. What it seems is that MiTek itself is not installed here. This is what I can gather from this because it says MiTek Compile Driver did not succeed. So you can try it out and you can get back on the discussion forum. Sometime back somebody had asked about horizontal and vertical spacing. Could you please come up? Yes, ma'am. Yes, please. I want to control space between paragraphs. I want to remove first line indent, et cetera. I couldn't find any commands so far in the four lessons that I've taken. So I will do backslash, par and backslash, it's space. But there must be a way to change the settings altogether, right? So that I have control over space between paragraphs and first line indent. Yes, ma'am. You would do that using, you would define the new command. Can I get back to you on this, on the discussion forum? I'll write to you on the discussion forum. Yes, please. I will get back to you by end of the day. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Yes, please. Anybody else would like to speak up? Yes, please go ahead. You can unmute yourself or you can write on the chat. For me, Beamer is not working at all. Other programs are working fine, running for successfully. What error do you get when you run Beamer? You can, in fact, if you want, I can stop presenting and you can share the screen as well. Nileshri, if you would like, you can share your screen. Yes, ma'am. Yes, please. Yeah, Nileshri, are you sharing your screen? Ma'am, I'm just opening the app first to open the program. Should I do that or should I share the screen of what error I'm getting? Snapshot, I'll share. Yeah, you can share the screen because I don't think you can share the snapshot on Google Meet over here. Okay, fine, sir. Yeah, Shah Pritpal, we can go ahead. Let us finish with Nileshri. Just a second, ma'am. I'll share. You are able to see? Yes, please. If I take a Beamer, now this example I'm opening, this is Beamer example. Actually, all other programs I was able to successfully get every all documents. Only the Beamer thing, any type of Beamer program I try to open, it is not showing. Say for example, ma'am, are you able to see the program? Yes. Okay, fine. I have done the run programs. Ma'am, this package installation problem is coming again and again. Yes, so somebody else also raised this question. So yeah, what did you click? So when it says you can just click install. Come ma'am, I did install also. Now when I do install here, it says, okay, fine. It comes a pop up like my next package manager. Do you want to allow this program for an unknown publisher to make changes to your device? I say yes. And then later on, I get like this process started and then later on it does not run. Finally, it gives me this error. See, ma'am, Beamer based two screens.style not found. Not EY. Yes, so can you do me a favor? Can you open Mixtec? Mixtec. Yes, please. Yeah, this one. Say run as administrator. So when it opens up, you can close it and say, yeah, or you can say switch to Mixtec administrator mode. Everybody, please see this because I have many people usually face this problem. What happened? Ma'am, it comes as a Mixtec console window. Somebody started sharing the screen. Sorry, actually I'm not able to see. Shinde, because can you stop presenting because Neela Sri is presenting her screen and I'm unable to see right now. There is Neela Sri. Ma'am, should I also stop sharing for a while? No, no, no, you do not stop sharing. Yeah, okay. Did you click run as administrator? Yes, ma'am. I clicked run as administrator. Now on the left hand side, there is something called as updates. In the left pane. Yes, updates is there. Yeah. Click check for updates. Check for updates. Okay, I clicked checking for updates. It's checking now. Yes, please. Okay, a lot many lists came out. Yeah. Right, so you can click update now and try it out again in case that doesn't work. Then on the left after this happens, I guess this will take a while. Yeah. If you see installing Babel, there would be many more. And I guess your beamer packages will also get installed using this command. So it doesn't happen. Then on the left-hand side, just below the updates, there is something called as packages. You click there, I don't think it will be active. I guess once everything gets installed, you can click packages and then write the package, the .sy, you know what beamer to whatever it was, you write it there and click the plus icon. That would install that package. And I guess you should be able to run a beamer. Okay, okay. Because madam, other things are perfectly fine. So only this, only I was having some issues. Simple problem program also on beamer was not working there. That's why. Yeah. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Yeah, ma'am. So should I get back to you later on discussion forum? If at all I am able to successfully do it? Yes, please, definitely. Okay, because update is in progress. It is 89% right now. Right, right. Okay, done, done. We are, it says it's almost done. Yeah. Okay, open the video. Okay. Just a second. It says update improvements. So should I stop sharing here? Okay, you can stop sharing. In case it, in case my session is still on and then if you try it out, let me know whether it has worked. It is definitely, ma'am. Madam, one more thing. You know, update is in progress is coming. So it will take time, right? Because packages button is not getting the start clickable right now. Right, all these things should get active again. Like how it was some time back. So after writing this message should change to something else. Like update done or something of that sort. Yeah, yeah. Okay, fine, ma'am. I'll stop sharing then. Yes, yes. Thank you, madam. Thank you. Yes, Prithipal, you can share your screen. Yes, specified installation directory is not empty. Did you uninstall Mictec? That is because Mictec is already installed and it is trying to install in the same directory. No, ma'am, I once uninstalled it from control panel from my computer. Okay, just click on this okay button. Okay. Yeah, if you see there is something called as, you would need to go here or you can. If it specifies another path, then sometimes it needs to be deleted. So yeah, so you can go to this path, user, ECS, app data, local programs and Mictec. Go to that path on your computer using the file browser and delete whatever is there in that. Inside Mictec. Or you can delete the Mictec folder also. So it is programs, I guess. User, ECS, app data, local and programs. Okay, ma'am, I'm deleting it. Please wait. Yes, ma'am. Have you shared the screen because I can see only the Mictec installer screen? Okay, ma'am, I'm sharing the full screen. Ma'am, is it visible? Yes, please. Yeah, it was user, ECS, app data. It was app data. Okay. Users, ECS, app data. App data is not here. What's the problem? So go to the search and type their percentage, app data percentage. What is percentage here? Percentage symbol. What does percentage do here? Directly go to the app data. Go to the run, start run. I think it must be hidden. So somebody has posted on the chat in Windows, it's the window button and R and then type percent app data. Tax, okay. Click on the start. From where you start the programs? Yes, sir. Get the run. Yeah, click on the run. Yes, sir. Type percentage symbol, then app data, A-capital. Yes, sir. D-capital data. Yes, sir. Click okay. Is it a hidden file? Yes, yes. Again percent symbol. Yes, sir. Now click okay. Now go back, click on the app data. It is roaming folder. Go back. Yeah, I can see mixtec here. No, take your exact location. There are three locations in the app data. Local, local, low. Yes, sir, local. So go to the local. Then programs. Yeah, there is a mixtec folder. Above. Above. Okay, and programs. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, go to mixtec. Yeah, and you can delete all of this. Control A. Control A and delete. Don't delete the mixtec folder. That's right. Initially run on the run. I guess it will take some time. Yes, ma'am. And after this, you can proceed ahead with the installation. Okay. I think it will take some time so you can go to next question. Yes, please. Thank you. Vivek has written that hello there are some minor errors in the code provided in final evaluation. Both in part one and part two. All right. What errors can you point out? Hello. Go to the first. Yes, please. Yeah, one is on part one. Probably line number five. There is some error in the command. All right. And in part two. Hello. Yes, please. Yeah, in part two, we are not able to get the individual. Sorry. So if we run the same data and the same control, we will get multiple, sorry, single images in single slide. Whereas what you have done is in a slide, there are two picks of the docs. Yeah, we are not able to get that. Okay. Let's go to part one. So part one, you have said that there is an error somewhere around line number five. 50, 50. 50. 50. All right. Yeah. Sorry, but I'm not able to see the error. I guess it looks fine to me. Yes. Is it okay? Yeah. Yeah, it looks fine to me. I don't think there is an error. Is it okay? Okay. Fine. Because when I run the same command, I couldn't get the correct answer. But without that, there is some error as I pointed because I don't want to tell what is that. Okay. It's like I'm just showing the answer it would be. So I'm not going to tell that. Okay. Do you get an error? Yes. I'm not able to, if I run the same console, I'm not able to get the picture of the chloroplast of this thing. Oh, that means the chloroplast image may not be there on your system. No, no, it's there. It's there. Okay. If I make the changes in the command, so then this would appear, the picture would appear. Okay. Okay. Let me go through it again. It seems fine to me. Okay. Okay. Fine. Then I think anybody else also, if they can try, they would ultimately objective is to, they should be able to get the good output. Okay. What I'll do is I'll try it out again. And so I had that file. Let me see because so basically I would, I would like just recommend that to the entire. It was the actual correct latex file was created. And then these kind of options were then added to it. Okay. So let me try it out and I'll check it up again. Sure. Yeah. Just one second. So part one line number 50 and then part two, just a second. Yeah. Part two. Yeah. I've already submitted the answer. Everything is correct. So if I run the same on the command with the same commands with regard to the pictures in the slide, I believe the, there are two dog pictures which are appearing in two different flights. Right. Right. Yeah. Now if I run the same command on my this thing, individual pick is coming in individual slide. Okay. Okay. I'll, I'll see that as well. Maybe there's an issue with the size of the image. It may not be because I have used the same command and my answers are right. A green tick mark has appeared in front of each command. Okay. And I've used the same thing on the console, same commands. Okay. So, okay, let me check that as well. I'll get back on the discussion. Fine. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. So I just want to mention over here is that we have exceeded our time slot. And I guess I'll end my session here and I will hand over to Rama madam. Thank you very much. And please feel free to post on the discussion forum for any queries. Thank you. Yes, you can stop sharing your screen. And should I install it now? Yes, you can install it. Yes, you can install it, but what is ask me first? Install missing packages on the fly. Yeah. Click yes. Okay. After that, you know, you should go back and say click yes. It says ask me. Just click yes. Yeah. And then proceed ahead with the installation. Okay. Yes. Yes. I said that we must working fine. Yes. Glad to hear me. Thank you very much. I'm handing over the session to Rama madam. Sorry for the delay. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, go ahead. So I think the next session is handled by Ritika if I'm not mistaken. It's. Sorry. Yeah. So. Hi. So my name is Ritika. Hi. Hi. So Mahendra sir wanted to say a few words after that. Okay. So Mahendra, you can say whatever you want to say and then. Yes. Yeah. Hello everyone. My name is Mahendra Parvath. And I'm here to talk about the bulk registration which we are taking it from the institutions. So if you are a faculty or a student of any college, then I would urge you to kindly talk to your authorities. And you can talk about the bulk registrations. There are different courses which IT Bombay is offering. As you already are aware about those skill development courses apart from this, we are also conducting CS courses and engineering course for courses like engineering thermodynamics and signals and systems. So my request to all of you is to make sure that you speak to your faculty or somebody in the organization and tell them about the bulk registration facility. In the bulk registration, the fees are at discounted rate. And we appreciate that this type of registrations come forward because we are already getting so many requests. So we just thought of informing this to you all also so that you can get the benefit out from this. Thank you so much. I'm handing over the control to Ms. Vithika. Hi everyone. I'll be answering questions for software and workplace communications. Firstly, I noticed that for the workplace communication course, the discussion forum isn't very active. So I'd urge all of you to participate with it and ask your doubts there. You can share any observations. Okay. I'll start by answering questions that you asked on the Google response. If a software someone has asked, what are the skills required if I become a director of any university or get a higher post in any organization? If you become a director or get a higher post, that obviously entails good leadership skills which we haven't really covered in this course because this course deals with the transition from college to corporate. But I'd just like to say that leadership skills means good listening skills. This is a unit in the course. And you should be receptive. It doesn't just mean being bossy or being assertive. That's a misconception. You should be open to ideas. You should... Sorry, am I audible? You should be open to ideas. You should be receptive. You should also have good decision-making skills. And you should be sure of yourself. So that comes with a lot of practice and training. Then someone has asked, will the course content be accessible even after the course ends? Yes, it will. How to cover the course if we join it late? This is a self-paced course. So there's no deeply deadline. So you're not losing out on anything. You can watch all the videos. And before November 15th, you should do all the pre-registered courses. And then you can take the courses. Ma'am... Yeah, tell me. Ma'am, here's a minute. Hello. Hi, ma'am. Hi, ma'am. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Ma'am, I wanted to ask one question. Will there be any exam for this course? Oh, no. No exam. Just the graded quizzes that are there. All right. Thank you so much, ma'am. So the next question that we have is, students find it very hard to follow online sessions even when trained with a platform. Please let me know what the practice... what practice could be incorporated to make them follow. This question has been asked by Prem. Could you please clarify what exactly you mean, which online platform are you referring to? Are you referring to this course in particular or online courses in general? Prem, if you're there. You may go on to the next question. Someone has asked, is emotional intelligence good? Yes, emotional intelligence is a skill that you need to master. It basically refers to being aware of yourself, aware of your emotions. It doesn't mean not feeling the anger or if you're upset about something. It doesn't mean not feeling those emotions. It just means being able to identify that, okay, I'm feeling this right now and keeping them in check. And yes, it's a very important skill that you need in every realm of life, in your personal life, in your workplace, everywhere. So this obstacle course, in fact, does deal with that. I think that's all... Yeah, these are all the questions that we receive on the form. Now I can take any live questions if anyone has any. For software and workplace communication, does anyone have any questions? Ma'am? Yes, Sandeep? Ma'am, I was going through one video yesterday because I joined it, so I am right now on forms of communication. So what ma'am was talking about, she was talking about that there should be a room for feedbacks. Yes. So ma'am, I really want to learn, I just joined soft skills, just want to learn that how to react on the negative feedbacks. That's a very good question. That's something I think most of us face difficulty with when it comes to dealing with negative criticism. I think, firstly, you try to filter out the negative part of it and just see what you can take out and how you can improve yourself. And also see where the other person is coming from. It's an emotional feedback. If someone has just said something out of anger then don't take it very seriously. But if someone is saying it for your own well-being, if there's some good point that you can take out of it, just try to keep your filters on. Yes ma'am, because I have been through some situations where people demean you or say the feedbacks in such a way where they are actually criticizing you. So that's the point where I really want to learn how to react at that particular point. So are these people just see where they are coming from. Is there intention to demean you? In that case, you should ignore it. But if you know that they mean well, if you could use it in future then I think you should pay attention to it. Alright, thank you so much ma'am. Thank you. Anyone else? You can also ask your questions on the chat. Hello. Ma'am, can you hear me? Yes, hi. Ma'am, this is a professor, I know speaking from Karnataka University. Hi. Regarding workplace communication, sometimes what happens is my colleagues even if they have not worked well even if we know very well that they are the people who always avoid working sincerely when it comes to the meeting at meeting they speak first and project as if they have worked so hard and all that. If we are made not get any chance at all to speak out in the meetings then we are in a way silenced. We are not given any opportunity to speak out and we are made to show up as if inefficient fellows. How do you manage this kind of situation? This is a very common problem I guess. I think you could work on yourself on your speaking skills maybe because I guess I am guessing that your self-confidence might be low that you don't tend to speak up in meetings. What stops you from Pritika, can I add something to this part? Yeah, so from what he says what I can read is the fact that there is a whole lot of insecurity people typically who shirk their world beyond a point they have to prove that they are right and they need to be seen in the circle that is when they particularly rush in. If you have been sincerely working if you have been sincerely putting your effort you need not really feel secure at all people who see all the bosses will know who works and who does not work and that is basically where from where this insecurity stems up don't worry about somebody trying to silence you as long as you know that you are good in your work I don't see any reason exactly I think that should not bother anyone as such I hope that satisfies your question Yeah ma'am, sorry Anyone else? Hello ma'am Hello, I am Vinayak Dhule from Nandurva Ma'am are you hearing me? Yeah, we can hear you Ma'am my question is that sometimes the soft skill or the workplace problems in the native language meeting is going on and something we have to pretend something in the meeting then what happened we are trying to speak in our native language first so is it okay to follow with this when such situation is happen native languages while using the while working on the workplace or in the soft skill manner when we are talking in the meetings sometimes the native language we have to use correctly it might make other people feel left out it's better to use a common language that everyone is comfortable with see a sentence here and there is okay Vinayak, okay so supposing to say you add a sudden say a proverb all right that will kind of give the meaning in depth or whatever you want to say that will be highlighted but trying to carry a complete presentation in your language in your native language may probably beat the purpose okay so the best thing is to once in a while you can always so even we tend to bring in native words you are in there henna, okay fine okay when we are talking they keep switching okay in that case it is understood okay these are just expressions okay so to kind of take in the audience all right and probably make sure that they are with you all right once in a while these gestures are fine but the presentation should be done in which the rest of the audience is comfortable you should know who your audience is okay ma'am yes i got your point okay okay ma'am i got your point thank you any other questions i think we can wrap up soft skills and work please one more and move to english our rama would you like to start yeah so do we have any more questions on soft skill otherwise we can move on hello this is Sultana here so anyway i request on whoever anything if you have you have to post it on the discussion forum because as Ritika said the discussion forum is not very active so in case you have any questions i suggest that you make full use of discussion forum because if you ask in discussion forum many people will benefit so that is one thing which i think we should cultivate that challenge of asking questions through discussion forum and we will anyway have live sessions once a month so you are welcome to come for the live session but on a regular basis you should ask your questions on the discussion so that is my comment which i thought i will share yeah thanks Sultana ma'am may i add something yeah go ahead Shail so as ma'am rightly stated discussion forum is very important and asking questions is basically what will get your doubts cleared but more importantly also you should read through the different questions and comments already in the discussion forum because that will help you maybe clear your doubts and probably realize doubts that you never even had but are really pertinent or are really important okay so should we get down now to oral and written communication doubts welcome all the students who are right now present in this meeting it's a lovely rainy day here and it's a very nice feeling to have all of you discussing and asking your questions i can see Shaheek smile probably it's not raining where he is so to begin with there was a question a student had placed on the google form that we had asked to fill in which said how do we develop our word power okay now i remember we have already done it we have mentioned about this in the video okay the best thing that one should do is every time you have any doubt please refer to a thesaurus the thesaurus gives you a simple amount of options as far as words are concerned the only thing is that you have to understand the context you have to understand the context in which you are going to use the word and the thesaurus also does that for you so it gives you an option as to if you mean in this particular context what is the word that can be used basically this is one way of developing your vocabulary rather than going back to a dictionary i would rather say once you have understood the dictionary meaning you can go to the thesaurus and enrich yourself your vocabulary another way is where you try to find out words that are close to a particular supposing to say you come across a word like learning now learning there are so many words which are related to it and you will realize that teaching, education erudite, recondite, scholarly so these are the words as you of course get down to it you can start making groups and you will realize that this is how you can club these words together so you write one word in between say for example study and on the basis of that you start making so circle that word and start making an arrow in whichever direction and keep writing whatever words that so study will also mean learning it also means education it also means teaching teaching study becomes a process so whatever words that you find are close by and then keeping in mind whatever situation that you are in you are placed in you will realize that you can make use of these words very comfortably I hope that answers your query as to how should one develop other than that of course there are other ways when it when it comes to listening skills because you are grasping several words at a time so there are if you listen to TED talks if you listen to other good documentaries if you happen to watch on youtube say for example these will give you a whole lot of exposure to good listening as well as speaking skills both these skills can be managed these are a few ways in which one can enrich your language enrich your vocabulary I hope that answers the question can I ask Shari to take the next question regarding the placing of period and now sure actually I don't have access to the list of questions okay we will just send it to you on your whatsapp yeah sure yeah yeah yeah I can do the picture on whatsapp you mean the one about the comma yes yes yes that's right yeah yeah I got confused for a second there so yeah this was a question that was also asked in the forum discussion forum so if any of you had read through that perhaps this question could have been answered then and what I have done right now is I have pinned this question so that if any of you are not following the explanation that I give right now you can always go back and read the detail explanation that I have written along with examples so basically there is something called an Oxford comma and that is something I will explain in a bit now the question that arose was one second I will just read out the question in its entirety English for written communication my question is as follows when there are more than two nouns in series they are separated by a comma and before the last word we use and the question is in many places of your presentation you have used comma followed by and and in some places no comma followed by and so which format should be used for written technical documents now as you all probably learnt in school you use commas to separate lists whenever you are listing things down you use a comma and you end with an and and you place the last item and that is a general rule of thumb that we have learned but sometimes what happens is if we follow this follow this rule blindly we create ambiguous situations and by ambiguous I mean confusing situations when something is not clear for example let's take this sentence that I had written in the discussion forum it's a little funny but bear with me so I would like to thank my parent for my success I would like to thank my parents comma, Rama and Ratika now what happens here it becomes very confusing are your parents Rama and Ratika or do you want to thank your parents Rama and Ratika so what needs to be done here a comma needs to be inserted before and because now what happens is I would like for my success I would like to thank my parents comma, Rama comma sorry am I missing out the order and yeah comma and Ratika so this is what clearly demarcates who all you are trying to thank and this is called the Oxford comma whenever a conjunction is there and you need to place a comma before the conjunction that comma is called the Oxford comma so now the question arises is can you keep using it all the time ideally you shouldn't because we tend to use the rule and we keep sticking with it you want to do this and you keep doing this but try and make sure that you use it appropriately whenever the situation demands it whenever there is confusion in the sentence use the comma now when it comes to technical writing I will try and share a link with you that I looked up before I was trying to answer this question I'll just put it in the chat so this is from a university called Cornell and for the engineering students and basically they explain it really well even when you are writing reports scientific reports or engineering reports and there are technical sentences where you are trying to explain the different chemicals someone should use what happens is if you leave the Oxford comma out if you just blindly follow the rule I have to put those commas in place wherever and then just end and the last bit so let's say for this experiment we need to use hydrogen peroxide hydrogen peroxide sodium and water now what happens here is sodium and water becomes one group and somebody might think that sodium needs to be mixed into the water or rubidium if it was rubidium needs to be mixed into the water now what can happen is for science students who are here would realize that this is a highly orthothermic reaction that means it's going to bubble and it might even explode because it's very violent the reaction and you don't want that to happen so someone who is following someone let's say in a different country is reading your report and is trying to emulate or replicate the same experiment he or she might not follow it properly and will end in a disaster and so this is something that's very important a lot of people don't realize but for technical reports specifically you need to make sure your oxford commas are in the right place and this is not limited to engineering or scientific fields even for business so I don't have a particular example I will get back to you with it but I hope you follow the gist of it and if you don't go to the discussion forums I posted the oxford style guide which you can read on page 13 what the oxford comma is and how the sentences look like so try and go through that and if you have any more questions keep posting it on the discussion forum I hope that answers the question yeah thanks Shari that was quite in detail and extremely satisfying in the sense that to also make it a little simpler one can always say the sun the moon and the stars you don't say sun moon stars so this is basically our v8 laddus formal and whatever you know gulab jamuns as well so what he is asking and the way you have so and of course this gets replicated with your technical writing as well so that was an excellent answer you know just the right way to explain thanks yeah so do we have any more questions guys now is the time I mean get all your questions clarified and if you have any inhibitions this is a completely non judgmental so no one is going to come and tell you oh he doesn't know this or she doesn't know this this is how we learn so please don't hesitate like go ahead and ask your questions okay so what I noticed as far as in the meanwhile people can put up their questions if they have any what I have noticed is in the google form there are students who have been yes can you hear me now yeah yeah hello yes go ahead madam when I watched the videos related to oral communication what I felt was most of the students coming from rural areas who have studied in native languages in mother tongues among them I find much difficulty in cultivating some sentence linkers gap fillers and these kind of things so I thought it would be better if there was one video which could inform the students about how to use gap fillers and sentence linkers these kind of things if the students are good at grammar and if they are able to make the sentences properly with grammatical knowledge they could speak English as you have taught in the videos it would be easy for them I understand what you are saying but the rural students are not good at making these kind of sentence fillers and they give a kind of liveliness when we are using the language I understand so see what we have done in this grammar we have spread out in both the modules in the oral as well as the written module except for determiners we have covered almost everything that is a part of grammar in the sense we have picked up articles, tenses proverbs repositions so all of these things they link words from verb adjective, adverb they link these things together to make a complete sentence you will have to be very patient go through both the modules only then will you realize that including the subject verb connection understanding those things or punctuations for example everything has been in fact covered except for the A and the determiners where and how they have to be used of course which otherwise get covered in articles as such ok so I think we have more or less covered what is basic required for this course does that answer your question does that answer your question no madam that is what I want to make clear I think you did not get my point clearly my point was that there will be certain linkers actually to put it in other words these kind of certain catch words and phrases will be there which are often used in the sentence the students who have come from English medium well honestly speaking we do not encourage these fillers one should not use it basically the point is these fillers gives the speaker time to think and recollect the word but the person should be so prepared with his content that he should not a good speaker should not be using these fillers now how would it be done in oral communication madam in oral communication only I am saying whatever we do we take these pauses as I called not fillers but I call it pauses to gain some time exactly so for these pauses you have punctuations basically used in a sentence alright I pause just now and I took my time to gather my thoughts my words that is okay but rather than saying you know okay fine rather than doing that it is always nice to just wait for a couple of seconds gather your thoughts and go on Ritika has something to say adding to your point you know actually and all are actually called crutch words because people use it when they can't find any other words and they use it like crutches to support them that is what is required for the students to understand actually it is not required you should tell them they are not supposed to use it in day-to-day communication when it is happening naturally informal situations are different from formal situations that is true but as far as possible one should also not make use of it in informal situations we would rather discourage go see that becomes your habit and once it becomes a habit alright when it comes to now see I used alright okay so once then it becomes a habit and when it comes to presentations students will be doing presentations all the time right in that case then it becomes a part of their presentation in that case then so they are not supposed to alright actually okay fine and it doesn't mean you have good grammar if you use those words yes as long as your sentences are correctly formed yeah so does that answer your question sir yes ma'am yes okay thank you so much hello ma'am Vinay here Vinay here ma'am again yeah hi Vinay Vinay can you just hold on one minute I think there is miss Kanjan Pandya who has been trying to ask a question I have already spoken to you Vinay will you just hold on one second yes Kanjan if you are yeah thank you so much Vinay yeah Kanjan if you are there yeah hello ma'am good afternoon good afternoon ma'am I joined the course before few days only I mean before 4 to 5 days only so is it okay for me to complete the whole syllabus up to November oh yes yes as Ritika has said it is a self-paced course and you can take your own time but make sure that you finish it on the given date so that the certification and everything can be done complete all the the question answers the quizzes whatever is given there all of those things so that you qualify for the procedure kind of whatever the requirements are one more thing I want to tell you I am sorry ma'am I am saying originally it was planned so you have enough time okay okay and I want to say before 4 years I was gone through the hemorrhage and that effect my fine motors so my writing is not as the others are having right now my writing has become very late in coming okay so that is the problem in my writing that I want to say you that if you are seeing my writing then don't tell anything about it oh don't worry now that you mentioned will be considered rather okay okay okay if I might add something Kanjan now that you mentioned this in case you are facing difficulties with writing because of your condition you can always what you can do is you can dictate to somebody and they can help you write down stuff that we might not one second I will just answer Kanjan's question and then we will get back to you we also have Vinayak to speak to so Kanjan what I am trying to say is as long as you can get your idea across and make sure that your grammar and your sentence structure is unfiltered and unedited by whoever is writing it down for you then it is okay for someone else to write for you and upload the document if that makes life easier for you at the end of the day we don't want to burden you okay sir actually I am good at board writing because I am a teacher right now so I am good at board writing because that skill I have developed but in a particular in writing in notes somehow my writing is still really very bad so I am just going to develop it too but this may be taking some time take your time it doesn't matter take your time it is absolutely fine yeah Vinayak can you are you there hello yes ma'am ma'am my question is that whenever we are following through the report writings etc and we are trying to check the plagiarism in all the things sometimes the indefinite and definite articles are able to present there or they are required there but the sentence is that it is grammatically correct sometimes we are using the India or we are using only India still the correct and in the video we have mentioned that we had mentioned that sometimes keeping the articles is good no problem at all so what we actually follow while writing the report articles are not able to place at the right place by me sometimes so how you guys okay see this confusion regarding articles is always there simply because well you will be surprised none of the Indian languages uses articles it is only English language that has articles in it okay now probably that is one of the reasons as to why Indians get confused when it comes to writing articles but you seem to be understanding the definite and indefinite articles and things like that if you go through the video again and again okay I think your understanding will improve and it is basically more of listening to others speak and reading stuff that will give you confidence as to where the article goes and where it doesn't you know write more get it corrected and you will realize that article are an integral part of English language you cannot do away the articles okay so it is not that you know you can just drop them they have to be used and it can never be the India okay so just make sure that you understand the content actually I am just saying you on internet I put the word D India in the example and I say spell check or I says what is the correction in the sentence still the correction is the no correction in the line is there it is already corrected by the online checker whatever the websites are available it is correct D India and after the reviewing the word article it is again saying that yes it is also correct so I am getting confused whether I am wrong or the internet is wrong I think the websites are maybe not checking anything or just fooling people to you know you are entering something so you may have to look at good resources like Grammarly or something like that yes sir yeah that is a really good point sorry Vinayak I don't mean to cut you off go ahead no sir no second yeah no I was just going to add that what happens sometimes with using these softwares is that not all of these softwares are properly calibrated and these softwares sometimes they are like the coding behind it does not account for everything especially I am guessing do you use Google translate because Google translate has a lot of problems especially when translating from Indian languages to English so you want to be very careful whenever you use softwares like this what happens is if you want to use Google translate to communicate on a very basic level with somebody let's say you are in a different state if I was from Maharashtra and I spoke Marathi I went to Bengal and I was trying to speak to Bengali and he doesn't know English I don't know English we have Google translate so that is when you use Google translate a little bit so that you can get your point across but if you want to write stuff professionally I highly recommend that you do not use Google translate except for understanding the meaning of individual words don't try and formulate sentences on Google translate because it does not okay sir thank you and sir last question then I have no question at all the question is to you only sir so I am little bit confused about the grading policy at the last it is covering 80% to the graded quizzes and 20% to the practice quizzes so if I am getting at the last column when there is a at the progress bar we are getting the 50% then we are able to get the certificate or individually we have to complete 50-50% okay I will try and answer that for you basically the practice quizzes do not contribute to your final grade it is the actual quizzes that contribute to your final grade and the graded assignment at the end the one with the essay in the letter that you have to write about the analyst position at ABC if you have read the assignment so I believe the split is 60% quizzes and 40% for the assignment and correct me if I am wrong but I believe that if you get 50% overall is when you get the certificate it does not have to be 60-50% it does not have to be you have to pass all your quizzes and pass the assignment and that is only when you will get the certificate if you do not do well in some quizzes but you do well in your assignment and do well in your other quizzes you can still get the certificate I hope that answers your question yes sir you are talking about the last column in the progress bar which is the composite of the graded and the all quizzes progress bar in our individual progress bar let me have a look at this progress bar I am on the website right now yeah it says GQ GQ average practice quiz average and then at the last column sir it will cover all the mixture of the 80% of this and 20% of what do we say practice quizzes and graded quizzes for the break up is 60-40 not 80-40 yes ma'am 60-40 I am sorry but at the last we have the average of all I see what you mean I see the confusion because when you press the progress bar it says graded quiz and then it says practice quiz and then it says total and then it says past 50% and 100% but what I am trying to say is the practice quiz does not contribute towards your final grade it might look that way on the graph but the practice quiz is purely for practice we don't count it for your final grade so when you refer to that graph don't get confused okay sir thank you sir yeah do well on your assignment that's very important the final assignment at the end not the progress bar graded assignment under the modules then check that assignment that is 40% and all the other graded quizzes are 60% if you want I can send a link to the graded assignment on this chat okay sir please send thank you sir yeah I will do that for you someone else had a question I forgot after Vinayak wanted to speak who else was it it's me yes it's me sir go for it sir my question is this course is modeled on MOOC I think so MOOC course is considered even for promotion things related to assistant professors and all that could this course also be considered like that while applying for promotions of assistant professors we have certain courses like faculty development programs and short term courses like this MOOC course are equivalent to those courses MOOC course could substitute them so could this also be considered for that kind of thing so what happens is this is a MOOC course and if you are but can you hear me hello yes sir I can hear so what I am trying to say is the course that we have designed this is a MOOC course and if wherever you are applying for a position if the requirement there states that you can use a MOOC course to substitute for a short term course or for any other course then yes for all purposes and intents this is a MOOC course and then they should accept it are not saying they will yes do need to check with them so that is the best idea go ahead and speak to them whether this course is okay for you to apply for your assistant professor position but this is a MOOC course that much I can assure you yes sir we are also giving out certificates why I inquired is that sir sir can you hear me hello sorry am I audible sir yes sir one month MOOC course is considered to be equivalent for one weeks short term courses sir so I think on the same basis I could apply I could you know make use of this course also for my promotion things and all that so I just wanted to get it confirmed that is wonderful definitely be an advantage yeah yeah and also in our course we cover how to I believe either Ritika or Rama have us entire video dedicated to cover letters CVs resumes so you can use that also in your professional endeavor you can make sure that you mention everything properly and you write how this course and the skill sets that you acquired in this course will help you fulfill the role of position you are applying for so this course helps you not only to make your requirements but also very practically to market yourself and like sell yourself for that position to wherever you are applying to make sure that you get your certificate at the end of the course you can always attach that certificate also along with your resume sure okay do we have any more questions there is a question on the phone hello yes can we have your questions Satish sir here is Satish actually I have completed only two modules of this course so far so I have got the registrations very recently I wonder that there would be some there will be a particular module for connected speech along with these all these things because the spread statins and all those things are very useful since it is concerned with oral communication so could I know mom if there is a certain module about our pertaining to connected speech well we are doing the basic communications oral communication course so I don't think we have incorporated anything to do with what you have inquired but we of course focus on on sounds and there use so you could actually go through the complete oral course and I am sure you would definitely because there is a whole a whole two or three videos dedicated only to pronunciations and sounds and their articulation here is what I got the doubt that is because I cannot complete so far and I am waiting for completing the rest of the modules in this program therefore I was just seeing that I wanted to make sure that yes whether this is also included it is definitely sounds is definitely included in the course and you have ample time to finish the course because the last the end date of both the courses is somewhere around November 20th or 25th if I am not mistaken so you still have enough you have around two months to go and I just hope your questions are answered and you enjoy the course thank you thank you so much yes do we have any other questions Ritika you want to take some question can I very quickly clarify something with you so I remember when I was just asking us a question about what the split was and I explained to him it was 6040 with 60 to the graded quizzes and 40 to the assignment but I was just checking the oral communication course the other one not the written one and in that course the progress bar shows that graded quizzes and practice quizzes both have weightage so that is what he might be referring to and I don't want him to get confused and like not focus on his practice quizzes now okay I think yeah I think he will he will find it out I guess hopefully hello excuse me yes tell us I have just before in the chat books I have seen that somebody has posted about the written communication probably I might not have read the whole the instructions given earlier so here is my doubt that yes is it possible for us to go for the written communication hand in hand along with this oral communication definitely thank you so what we have done is we have basically split you know communication skills into four modules four parts so listening, speaking, reading and writing if you have to understand a particular language all of these aspects have to be taken into consideration and this course has been basically designed around these four skills so just focusing on oral skills will not be enough because when it comes to expressing your thought and ideas written skills are also quite important and in that case you should enroll for written skills as well for a proper completion of the course as such so I would strongly recommend that you enroll for written communication as well certainly I will do it thank you so much there was one question in the form that we left out it says I am still facing difficulty in framing sentences and questions and listening and speaking English please guide me and correct my mistakes so when you say difficulty in framing sentences and you said you are listening and speaking you have not mentioned writing writing is what you need to do because when you write stuff you will see the way you framed your sentences better when you speak you don't pay that much attention to what you are saying but when it is written you can see exactly where you missed a punctuation or missed a word or whatever so have you enrolled for the written communication course in which case the first unit deals with this the unit on syntax please with how you should frame your sentences my advice on this would be please do not get frustrated with the fact that you have still not got the hang of it see the module itself the lectures the videos if you see are pretty short there are only 10 minutes maximum 15 minutes okay now this is not enough to basically get a hang of either any language or learning as a matter of fact give yourself ample time even beyond the course alright I think you should keep continuing at some point I'm sure you would realize that without noticing you would realize that you have already started getting a hang of it as I always say it is almost like losing weight you know gaining is easy but losing one tends to get a bit frustrated and we tend to give it up so the only advice here would be not to give up keep trying and it will anyway come you know so just have that little bit of patience don't get frustrated keep thinking keep listening keep thinking keep listening and yeah reading also as well you know so yeah Ritika wants to say something just feel free to upload your writing on the discussion forum we'll give you feedback anything if it's a letter or essay whatever guys the most powerful thing about this course is the fact that you can upload anything you write and you can get a corrected feedback this is generally we were just entertaining a doubt with I'm not sure if it was Vinayak or who it was but about how he uses Google translate or he uses other software to try and correct the things is the wrong answer and he tries to use it with the definite in the definite article he mentioned and now you have actual teachers and people willing and ready and able to correct your answers so make the most of this opportunity and write your doubts write your thoughts write your use the discussion forum that's the most important thing okay do we have any questions because we are almost coming to the close of this session another 5 minutes if there are any doubts questions or else we can wrap it up so like Mukesh wrote in the chat he asked a question and Ritika answered it other people if you're shy about speaking out you can always type in the chat that's also completely okay we'll answer your question so this is your moment this is your time you have 5 minutes more so try and make the most of it just a quick announcement before we wind up so there is bulk registration options available for colleges so in case your college would be interested please contact us so the contact information is given here you can contact Mahendra and you can send a mail to eoutreach at the rate csd.itv.ac.in so and the phone number is also given so please tell your teachers and college authorities in case you would be interested in bulk registration thanks ma'am is there an additional slide with the contact information because this slide so Mahendra if you have the contact information just so I have just posted on the chat what I'll do is edit the ppt file and share it over here straight away give me one minute if there are more questions please feel free to ask Rama, Rithika and if you want to say something you can just my name okay I'll just add something real quickly so like I've said I'm probably going to repeat myself again but there is a 40% graded assignment on the written course so in order to do well on it I would highly recommend you use the practice writing courses and make sure that you send your writings across either on the discussion forum or on the discussion forum so that we can correct it and you can get an idea of what we expect for the written assignment so remember written assignment is a very big part if you ace your written assignment as in you do well on it then 40% of your grade is already cleared you only need 10% from the quizzes then you get your certificate which is not to say don't perform well on your quizzes but your written assignment is a very big part so please focus well on it also please use the discussion forum as much as you can share whatever you read if you want to write something and share it with us because we are always reading so please do yeah and my suggestion will be to keep going back to the videos just in case you have not understood anything the concepts will definitely be clear just to make sure that rather than just feeling being stuck at some point just make sure that you re-run the videos because it's a free tool in your hand so you can obviously press the rewind button and go back see the videos again that will help you definitely and when the practice essay and letter writing questions I know they aren't graded but please try to do it and share it with us good at next combo okay so I think we have more or less come to an end of this session thank you all for your inputs and your questions, your doubts we look forward to more of these questions in the coming weeks we can definitely have one more of such question and session, thank you so much so thank you Rama, Ratika and Shari it was very nice so this is the information about the bulk registration in case you want to go for bulk registration you can tell your college people so the contact information is also given here so please note it down and I want to thank all the participants for participating in the live session very enthusiastically very nice of you to spare some time and we will have such I think many people are asking that we will have such sessions every month so we will announce it on the course and we expect you to participate and if you have any questions you can always post on the discussion forum or come live during the interactive sessions and I think many people are getting confused because they joined late whether they will have enough time to complete the course and when they get the certificate these are very common questions most of the people are asking so I just want to tell you that this is a move which is initially it was designed for a 4 week or 6 week move but now we have kept it as a self-paced move and the whole course content is available to you and you can do it anytime anywhere and we have kept the courses open until middle of November so from July 15th till November 15th you have 4 months time to complete any of these courses and if you are finished English for oral communication then I suggest that you join the English for written communication as the instructors told you both will go hand in hand and so it will be better that you register for both these courses so that you become good in the language so that is my suggestion and similarly if soft skills and workplace communication these two courses go hand in hand so if you register for one please do register for the other one so that you become better and with that I would like to end this session and I thank everybody for coming in and sharing the time and thank you all