 Seste Krathibar, welcome you all to this awareness workshop on NPTEL, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. Here all today's workshop on Neftel Awareness is jointly organized by NPTEL, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Saga Institute of Science, Technology and Research Bhopal for all the students and faculties. It is clear from the tech line of Swayam that the Shikshit Bharat is the Undad Bharat. That means the ultimate goal of the government is to make the country develop in every segment by enhancing knowledge through the learning. Today's workshop is on NPTEL awareness program. So first we discuss what is NPTEL, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. NEPTEL is a project of MHRD, right now, Ministry of Education initiated by the seven Indian Institute of Technologies, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharatpur, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Roorkee along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. It was this initiation of NEPTEL was started in 2003 to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. This year, in 2023, NEPTEL has completed 20 years and the main goal of NEPTEL is to clear wave and video courses in all major branches of engineering and physical science to the undergraduate and postgraduate level, and management courses at the postgraduate level. If we talk about the highlight of NEPTEL, so NEPTEL is the largest online repository in the world of courses in engineering, basic science, and selected humanities, and social science subject. Online, the weight portal of NEPTEL has more than 471 million plus views. The YouTube channel for NEPTEL is most subscribed agitational channel in the world. It has 1.5 million plus channel subscribers, 819 million plus views, and 50,000 plus video hours. More than 54,000 plus hours of video content transmitted with the subtitles. It is the most accessed library of peer-reviewed educational content in the world. NEPTEL online certification courses started since 2013 through an online portal by providing the four-week, eight-week, and 12-week online courses typically on topic relevant to students in all years of higher education, along with the basic courses in science and humanities with exposures to relevant tool and technologies are being offered. The enrollment and learning from these courses involve no cost. However, in person, doctor certification examination will be conducted at rupees 1000 per course, and a certificate is provided through the participating institution and industries where applicable. The main objective of today's workshop is to create awareness for the features of NEPTEL online certification courses among the teaching community of technical management and science. The workshop is conducted by NEPTEL coordinators and senior professors from IIT Madras. In today's workshop, we will cover in some of the topics like the domain certification, faculty development programs, job-oriented courses, soft-skill workshop, NEPTEL starts, courses for gate preparation. So, all this we will discuss in today's workshop. Here, I would like to highlight some initiatives of NEPTEL. To encourage more students across the colleges, NEPTEL has started local chapters so that the maximum participants from the institute from the college can take part in the different courses of NEPTEL. The second initiative is the translation. The maximum courses of NEPTEL are available in English language. So, the initiative has taken to translate all the courses into 11 different languages of India. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, all into 11 languages. NEPTEL also initiated with the industry associated to bridge the gap between the academics and the industry and also create courses along with the industry to cross-skill and up-skill the existing workforce. Also, NEPTEL has provided the videos for the gate preparation. NEPTEL also initiated to provide the internship to the NEPTEL talkers with an opportunity to gain reach experience with faculties from the first years IITs and the IICs. Different faculty development programs are organized by the NEPTEL. Various workshops on recent technologies are also organized by the NEPTEL. So, I thank to NEPTEL IIT Madras team to accept our invitation for conducting this awareness workshop. I hope that today's awareness workshop will bring more clarity and understanding about the NEPTEL's course certification and its paid transfer and all other initiatives of the NEPTEL. So, during the session, if anyone have questions or any doubt, they can put their questions on the chat of YouTube link and this question will be addressed during the session only. A feedback link will be provided during the session in the YouTube link chat box. So, after those who will feel the feedback form online certificate will be provided to them. So, thank you. Let's enjoy and learn more and more through the NEPTEL awareness program. So, thank you. Thank you. Now, I request principles to address more brief about the importance of the NEPTEL with all the participants. Now, principles. Thank you. Thank you. And good morning and a warm welcome, especially to the mentors from IIT Madras, Professor Sivishankar Das, Professor Jayashree and the entire team of NPTEL, NOC at IIT M. I welcome all of you to SISTEC Rathibar campus. This online gathering, this online meeting is important to us and therefore we are thankful to you for coming online today to give us more insights about NEPTEL. I also welcome all the participants who have joined us either from SISTEC or from outside to get benefited by this awareness program on NEPTEL. I would like to mention to the team of IIT Madras that NEPTEL is not a new concept for us. We have been learning through NEPTEL courses. Our students have been getting benefited. Our faculty members have also been acquiring these certifications of NEPTEL. And therefore I am happy to share with you that we have realized the importance of NEPTEL. We have encached the certifications of NEPTEL particularly during the job interviews, during the selection processes of our students. So, let me tell this to everybody that this is beyond any doubt that for a student who wants to be progressive, for a student who wants to learn more, NEPTEL is very, very important and an essential tool for him or her in the career ahead. Secondly, I would like to emphasize on this entire concept. I would like to share my joy, share my happiness and pleasure on the entire concept that Donald of India has developed for so many years, 2003 Mr. Parthi was mentioning. So, this is a national program. This is the entire country. Anybody, any student, any faculty member, any general common man can take advantage of NEPTEL courses. So, this is a national drive. We must acknowledge, we must be proud of this. Then technology enabled. This again is a unique feature. So, we have not been so far enabled by technology. Before this game, we used to have just a few PowerPoint slides or Word documents or L sheets. But then this is a national level platform wherein we can take advantage of such a huge repository of content, of knowledge. So, this is definitely technology enabled. And therefore, now this is the type of scenario. Now this is the, this is an era wherein even things like cooking is technology enabled. So, why not we take advantage of technology in our learning, professional development of our students. So, therefore, technology enabled, technology enabling is highly appreciated in learning. So, I have personally seen a lot of courses launched by NEPTEL. I have personally enrolled myself in a couple of courses launched by NEPTEL. Such, such experienced professors, such learner professors. So, otherwise you wouldn't have got any chance to get access to them, to listen to them or to interact with them. But then thanks to this NEPTEL platform, that we have got access to any senior professor sitting in any part of the country, and we can have the, the knowledge transfer from that professor, we can learn a lot from that professor. So, that's why this is highly appreciated. This is very well taken. I would request Mr. Parthi that either online or offline, whenever you get a chance, please share our details, please share our data of NEPTEL certifications by our students and faculty with the team of IIT Madras, so that they can also feel happy, they appreciate that we have been doing access to NAPTEL, but quite a good work regarding NEPTEL because of the simple fact that we have realized the importance of NEPTEL. So, with this, I once again welcome all the mentors, all the professors, all the participants for this awareness workshop. I'm sure this is going to be highly beneficial for us and we are going to have a long-term advantage of this awareness workshop. Thank you very much. Have a nice day. Good morning sir. So, I think the team can continue now. Yes sir, yes. Should I take over? Yes sir, yes sir. Okay, respected principal sir, SPOC, thank you for coming forward and joining hands with NEPTEL IIT Madras for organizing this workshop. And I really extend our warm welcome to all the participants, faculty members, the student community who are connected with this group, who you do. I understand that this college has been participating in the NEPTEL program for quite some time. They know everything about it, but for the completeness of the program as well as for the benefit of all the students who might be new to this initiative, we'll give a complete overview of what NEPTEL is, how to actually enroll in a course, right from enrollment to the certification process and the different initiatives that already SPOC has given some brief about it, we'll go a little more deeper into that so that at least the students who are new into this program, new into this school, they get a complete picture of what goes on in NEPTEL. It's not only we offer the course, but we also actually take care of the holistic development of the students by offering certain other initiatives, like as SPOC was telling that about the whether it's a gate portal, whether it's a soft skill training or internship opportunity, these are all for the overall development of the students so that they are job ready. Okay, so let me share my screen and move forward. These programs, today's program we are conducting in association with Sargod and student of science technology and research, a short form I think is called SISTIC. This will be the brief outline of the talk, introduction to NEPTEL and SWAM which has already been elaborated by SPOC, then the NEPTEL online certification right from choosing the course to certification model, credit transfers, domain certification, internships, soft skill training, gate portal, particularly this part, domain certification internships, soft skill and gate portal, they are extremely important for the student perspective. Faculty development program is definitely for the career advancement of these faculty members, then there are certain other initiatives that we'll talk about, then there is a program called NPTEL class, it's a self-paced courses, it's slightly different from what NPTEL offers that we'll talk about, then for the completeness but we'll also talk about the SWAM NPTEL local chapter and within that you'll find that there are new initiatives which we'll possibly show it to you so that the students or the course stoppers can take benefit of it. In between as the talk progresses, if there are any queries posted onto the YouTube chat box, we'll take that one. So as it has been mentioned that NPTEL is a national program on technology and as learning which was initiated by seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore way back in 2003. So we have completed 20 years of our journey, the whole program is you can say it's one of its kind because I think none of the program in India involving multi-institutional activities have survived for 20 long years and we are going actually every year we are becoming more and more stronger. Although it started with seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore but it's not limited within these eight institutions. Now we have already actually expanded our horizon and improved it many other institutions which are of group. So that's a new IITs, IISCRs, IIFLITs or reputable universities wherever good faculty members are available, we have tapped that potential and made the contents available for the learners. So if we just see the journey it was having two phases. One is during 2003 to 2013 during this phase we created the contents in two formats. One was record the contents delivered by the faculty members within the classrooms of IITs and make it available. The second one was wave format that is something like a PDF document with a little bit of animation and all on a particular subject. So these two formats were available and these were all single quadrants. That means only thing if I am interested I'll go to go through the contents and learn it myself but there was no mechanism to show to the outside world that okay see I have gone through the content and I have learned to this extent. So there was no mechanism for that. So from 2014 we changed the track and started course level certification program so that after learning from this the students will be or the learners will be able to show to the outside world a tangible output in the form of a certificate. That was the change from 2014. This was aligned with the global trend what was going on. Initially we started working with NASCAR to reach the gap between the what industry wants and what academics offers. Just because academics cannot rapidly change the syllabus is keeping in line with the changing trend in the industry. So there is always a gap and NPTEL initially started its online certification program with NASCAR just to reach that gap. During this 20 hours years of our journey we have created more than 3000 unique courses okay. These contents are delivered or made available to the learners across the globe to our NPTEL HRE YouTube channel. Although it's not an entertainment channel but it's a academic content but the number of subscribers and number of views only speaks about the popularity of this program. We have got more than 62,000 hours of video lectures and many of these lectures have been created with English subtitles so that it is helpful for the learners who can easily grasp the you can say what is being taught in English language. Now what started as a you can say providing high quality affordable education at large scale with that vision. Now we are slowly developing something like a what an university offers similar to that. We are not only offering the course table certification we have already gone into the domain certification and many other activities. So we are offering not only online courses but also promoting its uses amongst the stakeholders that is universities and autonomous colleges so that they can use these contents for training transfer or maybe encourage the students for taking these for deeper understanding of the courses or for job oriented programs. So once you say that NPTEL is a program of seven IITs or many other institution now we need a platform common platform through which we should be able to offer the courses and government of India Ministry of Education came up with a new platform called SMOEM which is an acronym study waves of active active learning for the young aspiring mind. So this is a common umbrella for anyone within India if they want to offer an online course so they have to all go through the SMOEM platform. So naturally we know the learners they could be school children or they could be a high-end researchers. So there is no agency who can actually cater to the needs of a complete such spectrum of learners. Considering that the ministry has actually created nine verticals that is national coordinators have been created who will be targeting a specific group of learners. If it is a school children, NIUS, NCRT are the agencies for the out-of-school children it's a National Open University, NITPTR. For the undergraduate and postgraduate level most of the coordinators are remaining same while NPTEL is primarily entrusted to offer undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses. AICT is for the teacher training of the engineering colleges, CEC and MTC are for non-engineering non-management general degree courses from the undergraduate and postgraduate level and IIMB is for the management courses. Although NPTEL is national coordinator for engineering courses both are UG and PG level but you must be aware that the NPTEL you must be aware that NPTEL since it comes from IITs all IITs they have got the basic science disciplines humanities social science branches as well as management discipline. So we are also offering not only courses from the engineering but also offering the courses from basic sciences like physics, chemistry, mathematics then you have got management courses then humanities social science courses of equally important means so many numbers. So the online certification the course level certification program started in 2014 we follow MOOCs format which is what is MOOCs it is massive open online courses that means the number of students who can enroll in a course is not limited by the brick and mortar classroom of a university system. It can have hundreds or thousands of students enrolling in a course. The courses are open that means anyone who is having an interest should be able to join the course. It's online once we say that's the online course and what is the delivery mechanism it is through the internet. So for joining a MOOCs course only essential requirement is that I should be having the interest and having an internet connected then see these courses these courses are structured exactly same way how an university regular university course structure is that is that for a fixed syllabus it has a start date end date every week what all activities takes place in a regular university that same structure is followed here and at the end there is a certification exam and we follow a triple A model that means these courses can be taken by anyone from anywhere and they can do it anytime that means from the comfort of my home I should be able to do that if I have the interest and the internet connected and we follow a four quadrant approach what are these four quadrant approaches we'll see in the later slide next slide the courses that we offer are two times during the year which are aligned with the university semester system. So one brand is during January to April and second run is from July to October. So these are the two times we offer the courses and the courses are offered to the swam so all our NPTEL courses are actually called Swam courses why we're insisting on this because if you see the AICT and MTC guidelines they say that 20% or 40% courses can be taken from Swam so although we are saying NPTEL but these are Swam courses so all co-ordinators who are offering the courses under Swam they are all Swam courses. We'll see the temporary courses and timelines in the later slide also so if you are offering the course from January the enrollment for the January course starts in November at least two months ahead of time and similarly for the July run courses we'll be off starting the enrollment process by May. Anyone irrespective of what he or she is currently doing whether they are students, they are faculty members, they're employed elsewhere or maybe homemaker or maybe retired professionals any or a school children whoever it is if they have an interest to learn they can join into any number of courses not only one any number of courses of their interest irrespective of what they are doing currently and none of the course joining into the course for learning purpose is absolutely free without paying any cost they can join. The whole program is funded by the Ministry of Education. However since at the end there is a certification program if someone is interested to get a certificate then only the question of payment comes they have to register separately not through the Swam portal but through a NPTEL portal and by paying the required examination fee. Now if you just see the course features the courses are actually in three formats either they are 10 hours 20 hours 30 hours or in terms of duration it is for 4 weeks 8 weeks and 12 weeks that means if we just see that means every week we are considering about 2.5 hours of lecture part these 2.5 hours of lectures are actually you can say segmented one small or every that means it could be 30 minutes lecture five numbers or six numbers okay or 30 minutes or lesser duration it so that this is just to facilitate easy downloading of the lectures by the learner. Then we talked about the four quadrant approach which is also followed in a regular classroom that means what about the lecture the faculty is delivering to the students if we record that lecture and make it available to the learners that becomes my first quarter so is a pre-recorded lecture video. Then in a classroom the face-to-face interaction between the faculty and the student since it is an online board that interaction takes place through a web-based interactive forum where the students will be posting their queries and this will be answered by the faculty and the learners in a time format. Periodically the faculty will also be joining for a YouTube live session like what is my what I am doing today okay so in that case the faculty will be coming live and the students who are part of that board they'll be posting their queries through the YouTube chat box which will be taken up by the faculty and answering. Additionally we know there are prime minister research fellow scholars so we are implanting their services in conducting the problem solving session because we understand during our course time the faculty will be primarily stressing on the theoretical aspect and may not be having adequate time to give a lot of exposure on the problem solving skills. So the problems will be part of the assignment but the PMRF scholars which will be conducting a regular live session will be primarily stressing on how to solve the numerical problem if not on that beyond that if you have got any doubt related to the board that can be addressed by the PMRF scholars these are conducted in a live session to say do or Google Meet like platform okay so this is very beneficial. Additionally what we do as in a classroom the faculty may give the handwritten notes or something like that so we are also providing supplementary study materials related to the course that is it could be slides used by the popcorn slides used by the faculty or if not if the course has been offered at least once we try to provide the text transcript English text transcript of the lecture materials what about the faculty has said that recorded version that is translated into English language and provided to the learners. Additionally what SPOS who are saying that is a translation mechanism we are also trying to provide the translated version of this lecture into different Indian regional languages. Additionally some faculty members may also give links to free web resource so these are the three components so initially the students who are joining into the course they'll go through the video interact with the faculty to web based or PMRF scholars get their doubts clarified go through the supplementary study materials and then come for a weekly assessment is a self-assessment quiz they'll be having 10 to 20 questions every week related to that week's video so what they have to do after completing the first three perils then they'll go for the weekly assignment solution they'll submit the assignment and each assignment which has got 10 to 20 questions in the form of multiple joys multiple select numerical problems whatever it is each will be assignment will be graded out of 100 so each assignment if you see the questions they are not marked in terms of numbers they say that okay great say weightage one weightage two weightage three something like that so if you just to improve the what is the total weightage of that assignment you say there are 10 questions each of one weightage that means 10 weightage is equivalent to 100 months that means each question is marked of 10 months for multiple choice question with one correct option if you select the only correct option you get full marks otherwise you get zero but for a multiple select question as long as you select correct option you get proportionate marks but if you select any incorrect option in addition to the correct options then the whole score reduces to zero so this must be taken into account well say submitting the assignment which may be of say multiple select type that means more than one assignment more than one correct option is available under a particular question then we have completed all these features on a weekly basis that means if it is a 12-week course I should have 12 weeks video lectures 12 assignments each assignment of 100 months okay now if I want to write the certification exam I can take the course from the comfort of my home but for writing the exam I really have to go to a center for writing the center list examination where are these centers the centers are spread across the country at more than 200 places within the country we contact the exam all state capitals are forward under the exam centers exams can be conducted in two modes primarily most of the courses will be having online exam and some courses only a handful of courses may have offline exam what is the fine distinction between these two the distinction between these two is that in online exam the question papers will be appearing in computer the answers are also to be given in the computer due to the answers to be submitted okay whereas for offline exam the questions will be appearing in computer as that of online exam only for writing the exam I will be given a specific answer script where I have to write the answers which will be manually evaluated by the factor okay whereas for the computer based exam it will be auto grading exams in a semester we will be having three days of exam on each day there could be two sessions one in the four one between nine to twelve and one in the afternoon between two to five so maximum six sessions will be there in a semester and if required I can actually write the certification exam for six courses in a semester as I said learning is free but if I want to go for the certification exam I'll definitely need to base certain charges what is the charge the charge here is thousand rupees per course irrespective of the course duration that means whether the course is of four weeks eight weeks or twelve weeks the fee remains same however the students who are from sc st category or persons who are visible with more than 40% disability on production of their pass certificate or medical documents are eligible to get partial fee waiver to the extent of 50 percent that means these candidates on production of relevant documents will be able to register by paying 502 once you conduct the exam whether it's an online or offline our target is to publish the result within a flat 30 days time line that is if the exam is conducted on a particular date you can be assured that our results should be declared within 30 days of time this is important particularly for colleges or universities who are taking these courses for our daily transfer so that they need to know that okay before the gate transfer takes place the result should be available from it who signs the certificate the certificates are e variable certificates top copy of the certificates are given to the learners and each certificate will be signed by the institute which is offering the course that means if the course is offered by daily faculty the course will be signed by the coordinators from that institute that okay sir e variable that means it's that it will carry a qr book okay so if i have if i get that certificate i really don't need to refer it to NPTEL to check the authenticity of the certificate i can simply put a qr code scanner and verify the authenticity by seeing the say certificate from our NPTEL server so before i go to the next slide let me take a few questions uh someone is asking like maximum exams that can be taken in a semester as i said there are three days of exam in a session on a in a semester uh that is either in march and one day is in march and two days in april or one day in september and two days in october and in each day on each day you'll be having two sessions so if you take the courses or select the courses in such a way that the exams of two courses are clashing on a particular date in that case you'll be having one exam in the formal another exam in the afternoon so maximum six courses can be written in a semester then there is another question that our institute system r is affiliated to rgpb university and our students have completed several NPTEL courses please let us know the procedure of training transfer of these courses sir i request you to kindly wait for a while once you go to the training transfer feature we'll talk more about this okay and there was one question from Dr. Ryan N. Srivastava what is the role of local chapter possibly at the end of our program there is a you can say there will be some talk on the local chapter we'll briefly tell you or rather we can just take you to the local chapter page and tell you what are the benefits why local chapter creation in a college is important okay i think uh except the first last question which which has been posted into youtube chat box other two questions i'll take up in the subsequent slides once we approach there okay then we said that okay every week we're doing assignment there is a final exam now the final certification is actually you can say takes some component from the assignment and some component from the final exam so for if you just segregate the total courses into two segments there are some courses like c c plus plus java python very long all such courses which are of programming in nature they will be having three components that is 50 percent weightage will come from the final exam 25 percent weightage will come from your weekly assignment and another 25 percent will be allocated for the non-profit programming test what is this this is actually before the final exam there will be a particular date on which date there will be two slots given the students can actually write the non-profit programming test non-profit means there will not be any supervision from nptl side so they will be taking the exam either from their college or from home during the daytime or during the night time and if they take both the exams no problem will be taking whichever score is higher so 25 percent will come from there but for the majority of the courses which are non-programming in nature 75 percent weightage will be coming from the final exam and 25 percent will be coming from your weekly assignment now the question comes what is the final exam total marks for four weeks courses the total marks 50 whereas for you can say 20 hours and 30 hour courses the total marks is 100 so that will be suitably scaled down to 75 percent or 50 percent depending on whether it is a non-programming or programming only question comes here 25 percent assignments how do we calculate that 25 percent assignments four will be based on your performance in the weekly assignment say you are taking we have got three variation four weeks eight weeks and 12 week courses so we understand that every week there is an assignment sufficient and the students are actually not a full-time student of this program they are doing something else also so there are possibilities that student will be missing one or two assignments considering all those difficulties we are only considering that the best key assignment score for four week assignment best six assignment scores for eight weeks and for a 12 week score only best eight assignment scores will be counted for calculating 25 percent average assignment score so if you have submitted all assignments or say up to eight assignment we'll just take which are the best eight assignment scores out of 100 take a total of that take an average out of 100 and 25 percent of that will be directly coming to your certificate in case you have not submitted say even eight assignments which is required for a 12 week course you have submitted only six in that case we will consider the score out of 600 is actually score out of 800 that is two assignments you have got zero and according to the 25 percent weighted will come down now the certification criteria is that you should score 40 percent individually in all segments that means even if you don't submit the assignment regularly you have to ensure that your 25 percent assignment score should not fall below 10 marks and the final exam score should not be less than 40 percent or 30 out of 75 in the final exam if you add the assignment score final exam score and maybe programming score the cumulative total will depend your decide your rating we have got five point rating depending on the consolidated score if the total score is less than 40 we say that you are unsuccessful and we don't issue even a participation certificate however if your score is between 40 to 559 we say you have successfully completed scores between 60 to 100 we are this elite tag okay elite tag will be provided in addition to that elite tag 75 to 89 band student whose scores are between 75 to 89 will also get a silver medal printed onto the certificate and scores between 90 to 100 will have an additional component of gold medal symbol printed onto the certificate and even addition to the elite award additionally if your score is score is within top 1 percent 2 percent or 5 percent score are then you get a top or still also indicating what is your percentage means what is your position whether you are within top 1 percent 2 percent and 5 percent particularly the students who are having proper skills will actually get a lot of benefits uh awaits for them in the NPTEL by joining different other initiatives that will talk a little later at this point I think there is another question uh I am from uh Lawson is asking I am from Nigeria I came across some courses and I'd like to enroll most welcome uh can someone from other part of the world apply for these courses and get certified yes Lawson uh if can you note that yes these days it is possible earlier it was definitely possible to enroll for learning the for learning purposes but now even the certification example is conducted for the remote for students who are from abroad what that once you join into the course you write back to us so that we can arrange for your examination from your place okay so this is very much possible and we really encourage you to join into this program and take benefit of it a sample NPTEL certificate looks like this it carries the student's photograph student's name the name of the course the marks obtained by the student in online assignment proper exam the consulted marks total number of candidates were certified when this course was offered which institute offered the course NPTEL role number and the key work all these informations are available along with that there will be certain marking like elite elite goal then there will be top are sealed here depending on the consolidated score okay as we have talked about nothing important points to remember is that NPTEL will always identify each of the learners by their unique email ID you don't identify your by your name so you should whenever you are actually in NPTEL for learning try to carry the same email ID so that at least whatever courses you have enrolled whatever courses you have completed you can always see their performance the complete data will be carrying along with your email ID before writing the example of your before enrolling into the course please take the example why we are saying that someone asked how many courses we can write the example if you are planning to write the example one number of courses you should always ensure that not more than two courses have got the same example okay gives the same email ID for the course enrollment and the example registration otherwise if you enroll into the course using a particular ID and change the same ID for example registration in that case in example registration was the result comes your enroll your assignment score cannot be clubbed with the final score okay since these certificates are likely to be used for credit transfer or for job opportunities always use the formal passport size photograph which we find we feel that many of the students are not very careful in that please note that there are many courses which are math based and will require the use of calculators in the examination but during the examination we are not permitted to use any physical calculator even these days watches are not permitted to be carried to the exam so how do you practice that one it is always advisable you go to the tcsion.com online assessment at the splash scientific calculator to go here you will find the link to the scientific calculator which will be available in the exam so if you are taking certain courses where uses of calculators essential make sure that you practice enough during the weeks before the examination so that you are thoroughly conversant in its uses because it will be having a different say the way it works that your normal calculator works you may find it difficult to handle these online calculators okay if your college is taking the courses for credit transfer please inform nplk beforehand if you anticipate the large number of students likely to register for the examination this will help npl to make proper logistic arrangements so that the students can get exams of their choice and they are not inconvenienced to move further away from their place of residence or place of college this is the time lapse we said that we are offering the courses from january and july since our july semester is already in two days what are the timelines we say that okay we have got four weeks eight weeks and twelve weeks courses now the four weeks and eight weeks courses are straight into two differences the first set of four weeks first set of eight weeks and all twelve week courses have actually started from 24th of july but we close the enrollment by 31st of july 2020 so by 5 p.m of 31st july the enrollment for all almost 600 courses will be closed in four weeks eight weeks and all twelve weeks courses okay but there will be about can say 80 to 90 courses which are of four weeks and eight weeks duration which will start from 21st of august and the enrollment will close on that day over the exam registration for first four weeks eight weeks and all twelve week courses will close on 14th of august and for the second set of four weeks and eight weeks the result as your exam registration form closes on 11th september for all these courses exam registration form is already open from 28th of july okay so if you are interested for enrolling do not delay further immediately enroll for the courses and if you are planning to write the certification exam go and register for the examination now listen for the students who are from abroad they should after an enrollment they should write back to NPTEL that they are from abroad and they want to write the exam so that we can make necessary arrangement for that so before joining the NPTEL online course what are the things that I should process first I need to take the course list and the timelines that timelines what I have shown that is also available in the portal so how where do I go I can go to NPTEL.sc.edu if I go to the NPTEL website just scroll down it gives you list of courses and timelines and guidelines so under this list of courses you'll find this is an excel sheet you can download this sheet also and here discipline wise course names discipline course name you have got the with the faculty which institute is offering the course then you have got what is the duration of the course so that this course is new or that means this course is offered for the first time or this course was created earlier and it is in a rerun board that you can information you can get what is the start date examination date exam enrollment close-up date exam registration close-up date level of course whether it's undergraduate level course or postgraduate level course where is it elective or core course whether this course is identified for the faculty development program or this course is applicable for any of the NPTEL domain that we'll see later all this information including the link to join the course is available in a single sheet here so once you go to the sheet if I download it check the course please come here and decide on what course to take okay all information is available if you are looking for okay I want to see particularly from the college perspective if you want to see what are the courses that are forthcoming in the january 2024 semester can I have a look now yes you can just click on to the NPTEL semester information that will take you to this page here if you want to see the forthcoming courses from january 2024 not only january july 2023 january 2024 you can just see the temporary course please as well as the timeline from so here you'll find as and when the new are new or written courses are confirmed that okay this will be forthcoming we add this slide we update this slide so you can always get an idea like what are the courses that are forthcoming in january 2024 okay now if I want to see the timeline when the courses will start in january I can also get the complete details because all the schedules are prepared at least one year in advance okay then comes okay I have decided on a course supposed which course should I take we always say that if you are taking the course for the first time it is always advisable to try our rerun course because in a rerun course your all videos are available beforehand so before the course start dates if you have time you can directly go through the video lectures and prepare yourself you will also have links to one of the previously run weekly assignments that will give you some idea about that where do you get that one if it is a rerun course go to nptl.sc.in slash courses here you can search the courses by say name by instructor by discipline by instructor and so on say I am planning to take the course on cloud computing say this course from IIT Kharagpur is open for development and I am interested for this course what I do I go to the course page here I have got the videos weekly videos I can download from here additionally what all downloads are available weekly assignment as I said that for a rerun course at least one set of weekly assignment is available here I can just download the weekly assignment and see what type of questions were asked in a previous assignment so that will give me some idea like what I should be how I should be preparing for the test several self-assessment quizzes okay what all things are available here transcript as we said for the benefit of the learners who might have studied in the monocular media say they might have studied in India up to class 12 and it may be difficult for them to immediately pop up in English language all the lectures delivered by the faculty members in English initially so for them to help what we do we provide English text transcript so they can download the transcript English variable text transcript also they can trans get the translated version of English transcript into different Indian regional languages okay so if they want that okay I want not only English but I want to learn to get the Hindi version I will be able to download I can download that text transcript or translated version of the transcript in in the language and refer to them so slowly they will be able to pick up so this is the Hindi translated version of the transcript okay what else information is available here if I want to see not only the transcript on a weekly basis but in a book format I should be able to get the complete contents in a book format in different languages I can download the book from here say if I want to download in say Hindi let me see what it does it downloads a complete cloud computing course what the faculty has taught in Hindi language and who has translated it that is also mentioned so this is quite useful for the learners additionally you see here the statistics will give you some idea like if this course I am taking how difficult the course is so if I know okay last time how many people have written the exam and how many people have passed it so that will give me some idea like whether I can clear the exam or not okay so these statistics will give some idea on that how many times it was offered and the performance of the students during that semester additionally if you are a topper in the course your topper data will be available on the particular course page okay so before I move to the next slide there is another question re-run courses will provide new lectures for the same old lectures most of the re-run courses will carry the same old lectures only only the weekly assignment and the final exam paper will be needed until and unless there are some changes if the faculty fits based on the feedback or based on his own assessment that there are certain changes that needs to be incorporated that is the faculty may input some new components but otherwise we consider you may consider that it will be the same old content but with new set of assignments and final exam okay so all these informations are available to you in the course page you can also see that feedback how people have given uh different audio video feedbacks that you can see because we understand that even for buying something we always refer to some feedback reviews and all you can also check the reviews here then once we have decided that okay I'll take the end course or the end course when do I go and end course I will have to go to noam.gov.in folder because that is the platform to which the courses are offered say now I am planning to take a course from here I do not know the course name either I know the course name or I do not if I know the course name I can simply type the course name here say here cloud.com if I just search the course name it will take me to the cloud computing related or courses that are available so this is the cloud computing say suppose I am interested for Google cloud computing okay now here I'll click onto this course card what all things information is available here this course is from NPTEL this is the eight weeks course endowment uh so the eight weeks course starting from 21st of August endowment starts ends on 21st of August I'll rather take another course which is starting from 24th of July just started okay so then I will be able to show certain features of that so if I just click click onto the all courses here you'll find this page will display all the courses which are currently available for enrollment whether it is from NPTEL CEC or any other national courses so how do I filter it out on the NPTEL courses I just go to the national courses put a filter NPTEL then I can select the course duration also if I say I want to take a eight weeks course then also I can also decide on what is the discipline of the course say I am interested for humanities and social science eight weeks course in that case the developing soft skill and personality that is the course I am looking for it is starting from 24th of July okay all the course card carries all the information and if I am interested for this course I simply can do this course card it will take me to a course page we find that already 26,000 people have enrolled into that what all this information this course page has see here in the summary says that it's a elective course eight weeks course is from humanities department discipline start date end date all these things additionally this is an AICT approved FTP course this will talk little later once you talk for FTP otherwise there is a small video highlighting the course outcome what the faculty is going to repeat and what is the learning outcome that is actually in the video format the faculty has provided about the course who are the intended audience which industry will appreciate this particular knowledge the course structure faculty prior data and other information which I am talking right now okay there are certain feedbacks also here you can see now after going through this if I am satisfied okay I am interested for this course I click on to the join button this will take me to the course enrollment say I am it will give me a lot of options but I am planning to take say use my google account to enroll into this course okay so I am using my google account gmail account to enroll into this course certain times see here in the swam page it has taken certain personnel details then it asks for me my gender gender country I am deciding I can select from the drop down pin code I can select then it will automatically take my state and my city then profession under profession you have got four choices student faculty employed or other if you are a student or faculty definitely you are part you can be or may not be part of a local chapter in that case if you select a student or faculty you have to select from here whether your college is in local chapter or not then for the if you are say writing employed in that case if you will ask is it a swam industry associate okay say let me select student highest qualification say I am a school children I have completed 10 plus 2 I will be graduating in the year 2026 say academic bank of credits is that okay if you are actually taking the courses from multiple coordinators then to take the credits into a single code you need to create academic bank of credits okay otherwise NPTEL will only just carry your credits based on your email id that way then comes your you select your local chapter say I am saying yes then local chapter states I am saying it is the multiplication I select my college names from here say this is my institute I have selected here then my college roll number degree that I am pursuing currently I can drop down from here I can select department I have to select from the drop down all departments may not be available but select the department that closely matches with yours okay study here you have to select from here first year second year third year then select these two columns and join the course okay once it goes to the join goes to the next page let me take moderation from here kindly improve courses that are to librarians like journal matrix spaces and others I will be happy to tell you that we have already up to a course on library science that will be offered during January July 20 sorry January 2024 so you can definitely find one course from January 2024 related to library science okay so we are actually trying to bring more courses from library science as there is a format suitable sciences where we do not have many single course okay so now I have come to the course page what all things are there available in this course page you find on the on your left hand side window if I am new to this portal I really do not know what all things I can do from here I know okay these are the weekly structure that I have to under just to help the new learners there are different number of videos which will help you to understand what to do and how to do okay then you have got week zero week one now we are in the week one week one you have got lectures I can just click on any of the lectures to look in the lecture video here okay I have got the text transcript of this lecture video here I can see it here okay then weekly assignment related to that week what is the weekly assignment this is available the weekly assignment submission deadline is usually 10 days so what is the timeline when this assignment will be closed that is also mentioned here you have got the questions and there are different radio buttons you have to select appropriately and these are all one point questions so if there are about say 25 points are there that means each question is of four months okay so I have to submit it once I submit the assignment on expiry of this timeline I will be able to see my score under the progress term here I will be able to see week one what is my assignment okay additionally during the runtime of the course once I go through the videos if I have got a question I will be able to post my question to this forum I will just click on to the ask a question button and you can see there are many students like you who have already posted their queries and this will be answered by the faculty you can also not only see what they are asking and get the answer but if you have got any specific query you can also post your queries here additionally if your college has actually assigned a faculty to be a mentor for you as a first level of escalation in your college in that case the mentor name will be available under this here you'll be able to see the mentor's name and you have to select the mentor okay so this is what is available and what all things will do that is release of the videos release of the assignment assignment solution is released at the end of 10 days or on expiry of the timeline all these informations are actually published to the announcement tab and these informations are not only visible here but also be available to you to your gmail account or the account email account that you have used for controlling into the course so we have seen the course field now if I have completed my online learning requirement on a weekly basis I've seen the video I have gone through the text transcript additional supplementary study material if required I have asked the questions and I have submitted the weekly assignments and also weekly assignments course are available now I am interested for writing the exam for that I have to register where do I register I have to register separately in NPTEL portal the portal is examform.nptl.sc.in these portal information is shared with all enrolled candidates okay so here if I go I'll be able to select my course if I have enrolled in multiple courses which course I want to write the exam I can pay the fee from here I can select which are my cities of choice one two three the primary target will be to give you the first choice in case of logistic difficulties if we cannot provide that one we'll be able to provide you second or third choice okay even in some cases there is a challenge to provide to say exam center near your home because the number of students who are enrolling for that particular day may be exceeding the capacity of that city in that case either the students are compelled to write same way to a far off center or the exams are conducted on some additional day okay with these we mostly complete the NPTEL part activities now many of the times people may say that okay these courses are coming from IITs whether I'll be able to do the certification exam or not so if you just have a look at the certification exam statistics that will give you some idea so far we have offered including new and rerun courses 5372 courses more than 2.3 core learners have actually enrolled into the course more than 28.6 lakhs learners registered for the examination and out of that more than 18.8 lakh learners have actually been certified during this July to October semester we are offering about 690 courses out of which almost 600 courses enrollment is going to close by 31st of July so without further delay please join into the course how has been our journey during 2014 to 2020 if you see in 2014 we started with three courses with enrollment number was little more than 1 lakh and the exam registration was 3,000 class now in a full semester full year if we just see 2022 we offered 1213 courses with more than 40 lakh people enrolling into the course and more than 7.5 lakh people registering for the exam during your say January 2020 we offered about 665 courses with more than 24 lakhs enrollment and 5.16 lakh exam registration during this time we are offering 690 plus courses in July to October semester and it's not that we have we have got some commercial interest so irrespective of how many students may join into the course we offer the course depending on the requirement of the learners in the higher education sector so we are not only offering the popular courses from the four engineering disciplines like mechanical, computer science, electrical, civil, chemical, metallurgy all these things aerospace engineering, agriculture food engineering, mining engineering, ocean engineering, textile engineering but we are also offering equally a good number of courses from humanity social science management and slowly we are offering the courses from law health sciences and all okay so either the course draws 20,000 students or 200 students we are offering the courses because some of the specialized courses which are used by the researchers may be having a very limited enrollment and example but still okay for us to offer the course for the requirement of the learners whoever it is that's for exam registration attendance percentage that means how many people after registration for the examination turn up at the examination center we find almost 90 percent of the people who registered for the exam definitely turn up in the examination and this number is quite high if you compare it any other examination whether they are directly offering the jobs or similar okay first percentage has been usually been 85 to 90 percent but with the incorporation of new strategy like you have to pass individually you have to get at least 40 percent mark individually in assignment proctored exam as well as for non proctored programming exam the past percentage has taken a deep but still 68 to 70 percent is a good number okay sir you are asking what are the domain courses definitely we'll talk in detail about the domain courses in the coming slide kindly hold on exam registration if you just see on a gender basis yes it has been consistently that 14 women versus 60 men that is the ratio that we are following even I think even in college is also these ratio is not maintained all the rates benefits so what are the benefits associated with NPTEL courses we find that we are offering not only offering the curriculum based courses which will give a strong fundamental concept but also offering the courses from the emerging areas because we understand after the incorporation of industry 4.0 the technologies are very first changing right from supply to complete supply change management project management everything is changing okay newer terminologies particularly from the AI machine learning data science all these things are coming up and we are offering the courses from those emerging areas which will help the students to be prepared for better job opportunity we are also offering a large number of courses from the languages and soft skill which will improve the confidence of the learners to face the internet and since the certificates are from IIT the IICS to naturally the prospect of getting internship or job improved also the AICT and UTC Tartu higher occupation regulators has already approved credit transfer through these soil NPTEL courses as well as AICT has mandated that okay if they do certain for credits from soil NPTEL they can actually get a honors degree we take honors or a minor degree in other discipline depending on what type of courses they are this will help the learners to prepare better for the gate examination which is not only for high studies in say institute with scholarship but also is now linked to jobs in the public sector undertake MVP courses as we have shown in the soil page here some courses will be written that these are MVP courses so these MVP courses will help the faculty members from the engineering colleges in their career advancement scheme the people from industry will be taking this can take these courses for reskilling or upskilling opportunity okay and once we take a survey we also find that the what we stopped in the last slide is reflected here in terms of uh you can see the graphs while many of the people they take these courses for the credit because these courses are now marked as okay for the credit transfer a large number of learners are also taking these courses for getting jobs or internship or operating their knowledge in this particular field yes there are some courses which are taken by the learners for preparing better better preparation of the competitive exam like gate some are taking these courses for the research purpose okay so there is a true reflection of what we are saying in the last slide now we are offering about 690 courses but not all the courses as you said will add draw uh equal number of enthusiasts to enroll or write the exam which are the courses that draws uh you can say maximum enrollment or maximum registration you are definitely find certain courses like particularly from the java python uh internet of things artificial intelligence machine learning data science related courses are more popular for the enrollment and exam registration in addition to top skill based courses or language courses okay for the obvious reason because they are now linked to the job market but the major challenge before us is in certain cities we find the number of exam registration on a particular date exceeds the capacity of exam conducting the exam in a city so in that case what is the problem you may want to write the exam from a city x but we are not in a position to provide you accommodation in that city so in that case the challenge before us is that how do we conduct your exam either you have to allocate to your center which is far off from your place or you have to conduct the exam on an alternate date if we consider an alternate date it creates a problem because it might be clashing with your semester the university curriculum and all and if you are asked to move to a far off place you may say that it's very tough to go there particularly if you are having a exam in the morning but we are also handicapped because until and unless we have some idea on how many people are going to write the exam on that particular date we really cannot make an assessment and add in the resources according so our request to the colleges is that if you feel that more number of students are going to write the exam please alert us beforehand so that we are better equipped to handle the logistics now as we say that okay the faculties are teaching the theoretical part and also the question answers are taken through the youtube live or through the forum and all but yes there are some numerical problems some additional state doubts if they have to be addressed we are utilizing the services of the PMRF scholars prime minister research scholars they conduct the sessions on weekdays okay and these session details are published much ahead of time all the students are intimidated we always encourage the colleges to say that college should encourage the students to join into the PMRF scholars session and get say their doubts clarified learn how to solve the problems which are not possible in a regular classroom because the problems will be part of your assignment and the final exam many of the time students say that okay I was not knowing how to solve the problem take the opportunity of this PMRF session scholars which are rated very highly by the learners who have attended okay as we say now all announcements regarding when the session to conduct it is passed beforehand and also the reported version of these PMRF sessions are made available to the learner so that even if they miss the session they will be able to access what was discussed in the session okay these are some of the feedbacks they say that okay the session was very interactive and informative even if I was unable to attend some live reported were provided which was very very helpful so you can find many of the students have written back saying how useful these PMRF sessions were additionally now a major question was that what are domain courses okay now we are this part of our NPTEL starts that means based on your association with NPTEL number of courses you are taking in a semester what type of courses you are taking what is the continuity of course we are actually and performance in the courses we are rating some of the students as NPTEL starts and their categories under seven different groups domain scholars superstars evangelists motivated learners enthusiasts discipline stars and believers how are they different NPTEL domain scholar will talk more about it in the next slide that means it gives a focused you can say expertise or minor degree or you can say a deeper understanding on a particular area that is domain scholar so what is there in this there are certain core and elective courses specified if you complete these courses within a certain timeline you get a domain scholar we'll see what are the courses what are the domains available in the next slide coming to other stars NPTEL superstars is what if you are taking say four five or six exams in a semester and you are completing at least three exams with proper then in that case we call you NPTEL superstars what are NPTEL evangelists that means you are present in at least 18 courses during your four years or eight semester and if you can get a certificate in two-third of the courses that you have written we consider your NPTEL evangelists motivated learners and enthusiasts are similar only thing that is the requirement is that you have to complete eight exams in four semesters in the first case in both the cases you have to complete eight exams in four semesters with at least two-third of the exams you have to completely successfully complete only difference between the motivator learner and enthusiast is that in motivated learner it should be a continuous without any take and in case of enthusiasts there could be a break in semester that means you have completed all eight exams that is fine but you might have skipped on particular semester NPTEL disciplines studies that okay you might have not taken a domain certification but if you have completed 50 weeks of learning from a particular branch say civil engineering you have done 50 weeks of learning then and an average score is about 55 in that case we call immediate discipline starts universe is that present in at least four to six exams with passing in at least four exams you have appeared now we'll just take a deeper understanding of what is domain scholar because that is of interest to the students as well as the faculty what we call it is a micro certification where the learner can obtain expertise in an area by completing a group of related courses what are these related courses let me just go take to the particular course phase this is my NPTEL domain certification what it says that these are 12 disciplines and 51 domains have been created say aerospace you have got a domain called flight mechanics biotechnology bioscience you have got the bio process bioengineering bioscience computational biology similarly for the chemical engineering you have got these all domain domain names are mentioned civil engineering you have got four domains computer science you have got five domains electrical real estate communication signal processing all these are domain names now faculty domains humanities social science management mathematics mechanical engineering metallurgy and materials engineering all these domains are mentioned now suppose you are interested to take a domain what are the things you should look for say I am looking for a marketing management domain what does it mean I have to compete in the domain is marketing I have to complete at least 50 weeks of learning there are four courses and three elective courses that means seven courses I have to prove in such a way from this group that is the total duration should not fall below these 50 because there could be four weeks eight weeks and 12 okay what are the four weeks what are the four courses the names are written here and out of these say four courses I have to complete all the four courses out of these four courses one course is currently available for enrolled during July to December 2020 this semester so this course is also available for indulge for the elective there you have got a lot of options you can see here what all options are available and which all courses are available currently for indulge so if you can complete all these courses within a period of three years timeline we can average score of 55 percent that means what are the requirements requirement is that you have to complete the courses within a period of three years average score should not be less than 60 individual course code should not fall below 55 in that case you'll be eligible to get a domain certificate this is how a domain certificate looks like you'll have a your photograph your name the domain you have completed okay this is a marketing from the management discipline that we mentioned then what are the courses you have completed the performance in each course the qr code for individual course certificate all these things will be provided now you may say that okay who are the other people who are doing this domain if you just have a look at the domain scholars you'll have some idea like it's not only the students but a large number of faculty members are actually doing this domain course just have a look at the domains who are the domain scholars this is the data from the last semester you find a good number of people are from the faculty but you have got students here you have got student here you have got employed so it's a mix of faculty students and you can say employed professionals okay if you are completing the domain certification you will definitely see your names displayed here so it's not that only people complete one domain and take rest yes more of the people are taking one domains at least five seven two one scholars have already completed one domain but we find there are a good number of students or learners who have completed two domains that number is 32 we find three domains have been completed by at least four scholars so it's good that if you are in a undergraduate program within these six or seven courses can easily be completed within three or four semesters and before you graduate you get a domain certification from npt that will give you an age over your hello mates in getting a placement opportunity because you have got a deeper understanding of that particular area okay so this is all about the domains what are the most popular courses among industry if you have got any queries you are most welcome to write back in the forum we are not getting any question from there okay most popular courses among the industry is definitely like your python electrical vehicles renewable energy data science cloud computing internet industry 4.0 industrial safety engineering all these courses are extremely popular among the industry and if you feel that okay you want to get a job in that area possibly it makes sense to get some expertise on these particular courses the different initiatives taken by nptl is that one is definitely implementation of the credit transfer framework created by UGC and AIC now there are some questions from the credit transfer we'll look into see UGC what is credit transfer that means you do certain credits elsewhere and this credit is accepted by the university what this first thing is that there should be government regulation or regulation from higher education uh higher education regulators that the universities can take the credits from elsewhere for these if you see UGC and AICT the two higher education regulators way back in 2016 has categorically can say that the universities and autonomous colleges can take up to 20 percent of their credit in a semester from soyum courses nptl is the soyum course so you can take the 20 percent credit in a semester from here okay now they have given the framework now the framework has to be approved by the university for this university academic council has to actually implement the read transfer framework given by the UGC and AIC first accept that framework then comes your which are the courses will they give a blanket say open access like what are all courses you feel you can do that or sometimes they can say that okay we are approving these all courses for credit transfer okay if they identify the courses for that where will they should go i have shown you say from 2024 january what all courses are coming if they want to consider some courses for credit transfer then they have to go for that list i have shown you in the previous slide where to go and where to see courses coming in the forthcoming semester because it may take some time for the university to take a decision so we are actually publishing the schedule at least six months in advance they can check the courses from their short out the courses that are relevant for them for credit transfer then it's not only identifying the course how much credit should be assigned to a particular person as far as the NPTEL NPTEL is concerned we are saying that a 10 hour course is equivalent to one credit 20 hour course two credits and three credits are assigned to NPTEL 30 hour course this is as far as NPTEL is concerned but again the UGC and AIC has given the flexibility that the institutions who are taking this for credits they have the right to decide on the credit equivalence most of the universities who have taken these courses for credit actually made three credit or 30 hour courses what we mentioned as three credits they have taken it as four credits 20 hour course which is mentioned by NPTEL as two credit they have made it as three credits and so on so they identify first thing is that university has to accept that credit transfer mechanism approved by UGC and AIC then select the courses from the basket and tell that okay these all courses can be taken for credit and if they take these courses what is the credit equivalency this is a step okay NPTEL cannot do anything because NPTEL is offering the courses and the university academic council has to take a decision in this regard what we recommend from our past experience is that if you are actually taking the courses for credit it's better to avoid credit transfer for the final year student because in case they fail in a particular course since there is no supplementary exam mechanism in NPTEL it may be a problem to meet their timelines related to internship or job of which the first year students once they join from school to the colleges it may take some time for the students to get settled in the new environment so it is always advisable that if you can spare them and start credit transfer from the second semester and start with two courses which are primarily on the soft skill or maybe English language skill which will have four weeks or eight years just to give them idea like how an NPTEL moves works what are the steps to be completed in a week then from the next semester you can actually open the courses which are for skill development or maybe domain courses okay this is what is our recommendation someone is asking what is BTU honors I really do not know what is BTU honors but as far as AICT is concerned they have said that if a university universities can actually approve a BTU honors degree provided the student in addition to say 160 credit what is mandated to get a BTU honor BTU degree if they complete 20 extra credits from SWAM NPTEL not NPTEL is a SWAM if they complete 20 extra credits earn 20 extra credits from SWAM then they will get a BTU honors degree and I know there are many universities who are actually accepting this and offering a BTU honors for their student and the university like under University of Technology they are giving a minor degree so either way it can be done it can be BTU honors or it could be a minor degree provided the students complete about 20 extra credits from SWAM which is in addition to what they have done to get their BTU degree okay I hope this point is clear now comes your FDP FDP is that okay we have shown that many of the EG elective and advanced courses have been identified as the FDP course which are required for faculty members to earn their FDP point which is required for their career property they will get the details from the course page I have shown in the excel sheet where also it is mentioned whether the course is approved from the FDP or not initially they have to enroll into the course complete the course then write to the FDP certification another clarification is that if the course is marked as FDP it does not mean that these faculty members can also do this course anyone is eligible to join this course and complete it only thing if a faculty member is enrolling into the course by identifying that they are a faculty of the college then only they will be eligible to get the FDP certificate on completion of the course okay by paying that is it the sample certificate looks like this which is jointly signed by the NPTEL and EICD it does a four week course is equivalent to half FDP of one week for eight weeks courses full FDP of one week 12 weeks course is one and a half FDP and you find most of the courses out of school 665 courses that will be offered during January April 561 courses where FDP courses yes we say that okay there are primarily three categories of four categories of the learners student employed faculty and student faculty employed and others and if you just see the distribution almost 17 to 20 percent exam registration candidates or enrolled candidates are actually faculty members and this is a graph that says that what is the enrollment and percentage of exam registration how many people are applied for the FDP program additionally the single point of contacts who are the single point of contacts are the people who take the inputs from NPTEL and pass it on to the administration and motivate the learners in taking the NPTEL courses to help the say in the career progression of that if any of their say papers this is publications are accepted for publication or presentation in any of the conferences being organized in select institute that includes IITs IISC NITs you can go to the portal and find out if any of the papers of SPOC is up to for accepted for public presentation in any of the conferences in held in certain institutes then the SPOC can ask for a financial assistance the financial assistance is to the extent of 25000 rupees to meet the expenses towards your registration fee travel expenses and accommodation related expenses for that the SPOC has to write back to us within the first 10 days of every month apply for that with all relevant details with supporting documents and then on completion of the the program submit all the bills and expenditure statement so that the amount can be reimbursed to them okay however if the SPOC is not actually participating but if you feel that okay some of the other faculty member who is part of your college and is taking a lot of interest in the NPTEL activities then you can also nominate this faculty for taking the benefit okay so that that is how we try to support the SPOC in on now this is extremely important for the gate preparation some question previously about the gate exam so suppose you are planning to take the gate exam now we know the gate exam is not only for taking admission in the master's program with scholarship but this is also now linked to the jobs in the public sector undertaking so the importance has gone many fold so preparing gate means you should have a deeper understanding of each and every subject because in gate exam you will have a lot of numerical problems and they will be testing your basic understanding of the subject so it's always possible that you need support from other agencies maybe you take sometimes many people they take the help of other coaching institute and all what we say that since NPTEL courses are offered by the faculty members many of senior faculty members and we are part of the state gate question paper preparation so they know to what extent their student should be should know in a particular subject to solve different problems so many of our courses are relevant for the NPTEL content okay to give you a deeper understanding of the particular subject so if I can give you a say mapping like okay if you want to say thermodynamics if you want to study which are the lectures you have to refer in NPTEL to get a deeper understanding of the thermodynamic if I can give you that will be really easy for you to follow the lectures instead of finding all thousands of pictures I can give you a syllabus mapping that we'll see additionally what we do before the exam we always refer to previous question papers to try to solve it so from NPTEL side we are also providing a video-based solution if you want to see okay in 2022 this particular competitive science paper if I want to solve I am finding it difficult to solve this particular talk how to solve it don't worry don't have you don't have to approach anyone NPTEL is there to support you go to the portal and you'll be able to see the video solutions of the previous exam paper okay then comes before the exam just to see okay I have understood everything I have completed the syllabus we always try for a mock session what is what we do you can just come to NPTEL and take a three-hour mock test and get a result then if you have got a specific query some doubts you can always join for a live mentoring session which are conducted by the PMRH scholar so it's an comprehensive solution if you are looking for get preparation this gives you absolutely fantastic platform right from syllabus mapping to the live mentoring session we have done the mapping for about 10 disciplines this is provided before you we'll just let me go back to the get portal and show you what what we are talking about say just click onto these you find here get syllabus mapping what do you mean by get syllabus mapping say I am looking for say instrumentation and engineering now I can select what are the subjects as part of the instrumentation engineering get syllabus what are the things I have to study say I am talking about sensors and industrial instrumentation under this if I am looking for say resistive sensor which are the video lecture that will help me to understand so this mapping has been done okay this is syllabus mapping then comes your video solution what we talk about the previous years question papers being solved here I can select based on the year or top if I want to select say 2021 set 2 I'll be able to see the solutions here additionally I can take the mock test here and I can also join for live mentoring session or the doubt clearing session from here okay this is all about the get portal so we definitely ask the students to make these two of these and take benefit of okay then comes NPTEL class as we said as a different initiative like say consider that you have got not much time you want to complete a particular course within say one month time instead of three months 30 hour course you want to complete it very quickly you have the time and the capability in that case NPTEL will offer the courses first of all NPTEL courses are offered by IIT faculties their curriculum based courses is a senate approved course okay but NPTEL class will offer the courses which are not only offered by IIT faculties but also other say instructors from industry will come and offer that course these courses are mostly self-paced courses it contains not only NPTEL courses but also many of the courses are on your say some sort of vehicles say short term or long term training live of blended courses on skills skill development on a particular software a particular system all these type of problems are of courses are available under this program so I can take the courses and complete it within the timeline that I decide the 30 hour course can be completed within 30 days I can do it as per my convenience and complete similarly the exams can also be completed as per my country every week there is an exam but here since all lot of flexibilities are there naturally it comes to the cost okay for accessing the NPTEL contents we don't pay any but for the NPTEL class contents we'll have to pay certain charges depending on the course content course duration as well as for writing the exam the exam fee will be little higher instead of 1000 rupees we charge 1500 rupees here because you have the flexibility to take the exam whenever you want okay this is all about NPTEL class we can actually go to this particular particular this page NPTEL dot ac dot n and explore what all courses are available in the NPTEL class platform you can see the courses are programs it could be NPTEL courses it could be IIT workshop under IIT workshop what all things are available you can see we have closed ongoing what all workshops are available uh yes additive manufacturing construction all these courses are available under partnering these courses you find these are the courses available okay so depending on your interest you can always join for the NPTEL class platform and complete the course that is in that interest to within your timeline another important point is the internship for the topers if the course stoppers are this is special benefit for the course stoppers in NPTEL course stoppers if you are a course stoppers how do you get an internship as soon as the results are out we try to contact the faculty members because the internship is under the same faculty which course you have in whose course you have done well so we reach out to the faculty get a consent whether he or she is available to offer the internship once we get a consent we write back to the student course stopper saying that the faculty is interested to offer the internship finally saying your willingness let us know if you are willing to join the course internship program if they are willing they will be submitting three documents one is the current latest ratio statement of purpose that is what they want to be doing the internship period and also they will be submitting the last two semester grade school so the NPTEL course marks along with all these three will be taken into consideration and the faculty will be selecting a group of students who will be offered the internship opportunity for this the learners will be going to the institute of the faculty maybe staying there for four weeks to twelve weeks duration anything depending on the availability of the different logistics because these are offered during the summer and winter breaks at IIT so they will be going there and working in the laboratory meeting the researchers they will be very good interaction with the researchers there so they will get a lot of exposure on that and on completion of that during their stay we try to provide them accommodation in IIT's hostels if they are available if the accommodation cannot be arranged by IIT the students have to make their own arrangement okay once they complete the internship we provide them 5000 rupees for four weeks of training to cover their logistics and lodging and boarding expenses and it for eight weeks we provide them 10,000 rupees 15,000 rupees for the 12 weeks internship okay additionally we provide them an internship internship this is all about an internship so there is no separate application process if you are a topper and you get the consent of the faculty will directly get in touch with you for your concept we are also in touch with Texas instruments to provide an internship for these if you are a court stopper in certain courses which is identified by Texas instruments in that case say basic electrical circuits or these are the two basic electrical circuits and analog circuits if you complete and if you are topper in this by fourth semester additionally if you complete certain other courses like the circuit analysis for the analog designer infrastructure time-bearing electrical networks, phase lock loop, power management circuit at least one course if you complete by six semester you are eligible to apply for a Texas instrument internship for that reasons you can come to this page and explore okay if you are eligible then forward your name to that Texas instruments and they will conduct an interview based on your performance in the interview you will be offered the internship opportunity at TI we understand that subject knowledge is not all that fetches you a job it's your top skill that matters okay it plays a very important role in getting a job opportunity the way you present yourself before the employer your writing skill your communication skill your body language how to answer to the HR common questions how to write a better resume how to utilize the social media platforms for the job opportunities all these things are important so first and foremost the thing is that to identify what is shortcomings in me what these work we do as part of the soft skill training program which is of one week or two weeks duration we provide some sort of a uh employability assessment test online interactive session mocked interviews during which we'll test your assessment probability your English language skill tell you during the interaction what are your shortcomings how do you improve on that how do you prepare a better resume then one to one mock interviews like what are the common questions asked in the HR interview and how to respond okay all these things are part of the soft skill training and as the numbers are showing you that okay how many colleges or how many participants have actually participated in this program the training after undergoing the training the students have given us feedback saying that this training was extremely beneficial in their next interviews okay then we are also in touch with the industries because as you know our main focus is to reach the gap between what industry wants and what academic institution cannot give so we are always engaging with the industries to take their inputs not only in say developing the courses that is required by the industry but also partnering with them in jointly offering the courses industries are also joining us with us to reskill or upskill their workforce additionally for the new workforce what we are doing we are asking the faculty members or the experts from the industry to give a talk particularly on what industry feels like leadership talks all these talks are also given by the industry so industry association is on multiple front not only they are providing inputs for the course to offering the courses but also offering the courses talks and all okay another and parent teams are connected to the work more than 80 say organization both from government and private and the type of industries that are connected is not only IT sector but you can see consumer electronics, electoral, educational sector, power plant, power generation, transportation all these areas are connected with us and many of the life sessions have been say conducted by followers from industry KFG mini, IBM, Mahindra Tech University then the colloquial chapter colleges must be aware that okay some of the students who are very curious but maybe needy they cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees what they model do if the local chapter college feels that okay the students really need support they can recommend the name of those students to us after verifying their financial background and if you have the fund that we receive as part of the corporate social responsibility from certain individuals as well as from certain industry bodies we try to provide you ever support to the needy students for this what we do we get the list from the college local chapter college it has to be local chapter we get the local chapter inputs approve them the students will be registering for the exam by paying the fee only on successful completion of the course will refund them the 50 percent of their fee okay more than 1.4 lakh students from the TR2PR series have so far received the exam you ever support and the distribution is different translation as we have shown that in a rerun course the text transcripts are available in different regional languages so that is the translation effort we are trying to convert each and every NPK course into translated into different regional languages for the benefit of the learners since we really cannot do everything from the NPK we are looking for the support from the faculty members who has got good understanding of the local language as well as has got good you can say depth of the particular course of course knowledge also so suppose you are having good knowledge of the cloud computing course and also has got a good knowledge about the particular in your Kannada or Tamil or Telugu and if that job has not been completed by translation job has not been done you can always join with NPK and is a paid service you can really contribute with that and I have shown that in the booklet format if you are participating in this and you are contributing your name will be reflected in the book also as well as the remuneration will be paid for your services okay so if you are interested kindly get connected with the NPK this is the translation effort that we have we are undergoing is a continuous process these are the languages Assam is Bengali, Gujarati, Indian Kannada, Malayalam, Malathi, Uriya, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu these are the languages we are currently working with so if you have got competency in any of the languages and if you are good at certain courses and that course has not been translated into different languages you can definitely join this initiative we are available in different social medias what all things we do we are publishing it to our LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube channels and you can see the number of followers all the feedbacks that we receive from the learners and what all activities we do we regularly publish it to these all social media handles okay we also recognize the NPK starts by giving them a meme into like t-shirts and all which they can probably show to the outside world we also conduct the laboratory workshop which are usually of one-way exclamation conducted in certain institutions if you think that okay this workshop is useful for you because this certainly say instruments which are required for conducting such things are not available in the institute you can definitely encourage your students to participate in this which is usually of one week during the Monday to Friday they will be doing two experiments a day moving around look and what all infrastructures are available there and on Saturday they'll be writing the exam at the end they get a certificate which is equivalent to one credit for these they have to pay 200 rupees starts to NPK for undergoing this laboratory workshop as well as they have to take care of their accommodation and food expenses we usually try to provide the accommodation in the hostels where daily charge if you wanted to pay 100 rupees that they have to take care of local chapter someone was asking about the local chapters yes to become a local chapter you don't need a building a separate room is not required what is required is the interest to participate in this program and a simple later from the head of the institution is what is required what are the benefits first what all contents have been created by NPTL you can really copy these contents and make it available to the learners within your local network so for read and process they don't have to come to NPK as you have a library you can make it as a e-library content so whatever 150-60,000 hours of contents can be easily taken by you without paying anything then comes whoever is enrolling into the course you can actually get the complete details of the student to the SPOC dashboard the single point of contact will be able to see all students at the end of the course and all of the information like your hall tickets certificates their assignment marks all data is available to the dashboard they can also engage a certain faculty members to become a mentor for the college mentor for the particular course they can ask for the few ever for the needed students from their college they can ask for the local say exam center local that is if the city the college is far off from the main city and there is no exam center nearby in that case if you have got about 200 to be writing the exam you can request NPK to provide a local exam center okay and we also provide recognition to the local chapter that is if your students are performing well based on your performance we read the colleges and felicitate those local chapters in the workshop as well as if you are allocating mentors for identifying certain faculty members to act as a mentor the mentors are also recognized by giving them mentor certificate for that the mentors have to actually meet certain criteria local chapters who are currently working with about 5500 local chapters spread across length and breadth of the country okay you can see the state against each state how many local chapters are available so first thing is that once you become a local chapter if there are at least 25 students enrolled into the course registered for the exam and if at least 50 percent of them or 13 numbers of the learners successfully complete the course then first recognition comes to the college that market as an active local chapter then comes if your performance is very good the number of students they're doing very well based on the points that there's there the learners aren't based on that the top 100 colleges are rated and first 10 colleges are called triple A then comes your double A and then your single A and these colleges are actually recognized or felicitated in the local chapter felicitation workshop okay within outside India also we have got about 50 local chapter colleges the participation from the local chapter has been extremely good its current distance about 45 to 90 percent this is you can see the top 10 states from where the exam registration has been okay for the new local chapter our suggestion is that initially you get them soft skill or English courses which will help them to understand the whole process then slowly expose them in the programming courses or the skill based courses like AI machine learning data science IOT blockchain and all such courses maybe you can encourage them to take domain courses completed within three or four semesters explore the gate portal more initially take the rerun courses it's always advisable if you can appoint mentors for the benefit of the learners and a dedicated time slot in your time for the NPTEL courses and ensure that there is no quality activity which is flashing with the NPTEL exam dates because we publish these dates well in advance as we say the mentors get a certificate but that is linked with the performance of the mentees each mentee get earns a point if their score is between 90 to 100 they get 20 points between 75 to 89 8 points and so on so mentor should get at least 10 points to get a mentor certificate okay with this I close the session here from my side I hand over the speech to the SPOC if there are any questions we'll take care of otherwise SPOC will take care of what you said thank you very much sir this was a very informative and detailed explanation session about the NAPTEL certification course and other initiatives of the NAPTEL I hope that all the viewers may get clarification and more understanding about certification course the process from enrollment to the examination they also get an overview about the different initiatives like the gate preparation internships of skill training domain certification FDP program industry association and the different scheme like free waiver scheme and the lab conduction experiments at the IITs and IICs so I hope that with this clarification and understanding the faculties and the students can go for the more can explore the more initiatives of this NAPTEL and they can adopt the such initiatives like the gate preparation they take the help of the videos which are available for the gate preparation they can help take the initiatives of the NAPTEL for the lab conduction at the IITs and IICs so in all this session is very much informative now I want to share some initiatives or some achievements from the my local chapter from my LC so I will share my screen okay so first I will thanks to all viewers for participating in this NAPTEL awareness workshop there are some of the details about the local chapter that we started at the NAPTEL local chapter at our institute in 2018 and our LCIDs 385 we have nominated department-wise the NAPTEL coordinator the motto behind that is that they should encourage their department students and faculties to adopt for more and more certification courses through the NAPTEL we provide the mentor for the courses chosen by the student from the department so that they can get help from the mentor while solving the assignments and preparing the examination 50 plus faculties have completed the NTPEL certification course in different discipline and in their own discipline or the different discipline and 300 plus students have completed the NAPTEL courses in same in their discipline and the other discipline also so this is that you might if we talk about the this january april january april courses then we are about 104 students and faculties have completed successfully the certification in they have got the elite elite plus silver certifications also this is the data which shows the the current year current station certification courses that january to april 2023 all the departments from my institute have participated in NAPTEL certification courses csc sabial mechanical ec and w department this is this data shows the status of july april 2022 we are about 81 students with faculties have complete successfully completed the certification course and also in this also the all the department have taken initiative and the students have enrolled from their department for the different courses these are the this shows about the faculty achievement different the faculties from the various department have participated and got the light back day or a light badge or a silver plus a light badge in their in their courses we promote the faculties we reward the faculties for their achievement in the NAPTEL courses we also promote the faculties in the social media through the facebook through the twitter through the instagram for their achievements most of the faculties have done single single faculties have done more than five courses one of the faculties have done nine to ten courses in the last two semesters so this is one good initiative by the faculty members the students achievement also is there from if we talk about the different departments the more number of students are enrolling in the different courses and they are getting the certification so if we talk about near about 43 students from the electrical department has got in this in the last session certification and from mechanically if we talk about there are 29 plus students have done the certification courses in their in their discipline subjects so we also promote the students in the social media to encourage them and to motivate them so that the maximum student can take part in the certification courses one of one most here i at our lc i want to say that the initiative taken by our institute is that we we print the hard copy of the certificate we frame it and we distribute to the students during the assembly in front of the other students so that they can encourage the other students can encourage and motivate so that they can also take part in the napkin certification courses so this is a nice initiative from my institute to print the hard copy and frame it and deliver to the students they are facilitated in during the assembly so i hope after this workshop the faculties and students from will explore for the more options available at the napkin side they will apply for the domain certification they will take the help of the reviews for the gate preparation the faculties can take part in the every faculty development program by taking the certifications we can take the help of the industry association of NPT union so this is from my side i sincerely thanks on behalf of my institute and local chapter to Shipsankar Das sir Jayashree ma'am and all other members of the NPT and IIT team for taking this valuable session valuable workshop for all of us so thank you all thank you sir thank you ma'am this is from my side so thanks a lot Jayashree ma'am yes sir thank you thank you for the session sir thank you party sir thank you Das sir okay shall we wind up the session sir yes yes okay sir thank you