 On behalf of Bhakti Vidyapit, Dean to the University, Institute of Management and Rural Development Admission Sanghi, I welcome you all. We have a local chapter of NPTEL Enhanced Learning. We have a local chapter ID that is 5665. I would like to mention that from the 10th of February, we have got the status of NPTEL Local Chapter. And right now, with the help of this July session, the students are registering for this all NPTEL open courses. So it's a dream for every student to learn from IIT. It's obvious. But with the help of this NPTEL Local Chapter and the initiative taken by MHRD, the students are getting chance to learn through the MOOC that is massing upon online courses, through the video courses provided by NPTEL. Which is the initiative of IIT. So students are very well benefited by this course and they will get a certificate. They will be enriched with the knowledge. So I just take this privilege to welcome all the invitees and I request Jayeshri madam to start the session with the help of Shivchanga Das sir. Good morning Professor Patil, the respected principal ma'am. Other faculty members who are connected to this program and the students. Thank you for coming forward and taking the initiative to organize this NPTEL awareness in workshop today. Let me share my screen before I go forward. Yes, today, this will be the outline of my talk today. It will start with NPTEL. What is NPTEL? How it is offered to the SWAM platform? NPTEL online certification right from how to choose the course. How to enroll into the program? How to register for the exam? From the complete work to will be provided to this product to this talk. Then we'll also talk about the training transfer domain certification and different other opportunities that are available that are available under this program. That is your internship opportunity for the students. Soft skill training. People who are interested to write for the gate examination, how they can take benefit from this NPTEL. Then for the faculty members from the engineering colleges, if they want to enroll or if they want to take the help of NPTEL. In their career progression, how they can earn the faculty development program or points to the APTEL program. And other initiatives that we have taken whether it's the fee waiver that the college was looking for or say like NPTEL class, CELPLAS courses. All these things will be deeply covered. Later on, we'll also see what are the benefits associated with NPTEL local chapter and how to become a local chapter. This is not only for the benefit of the college that is associated with this program, but for other colleges who might be interested to open up the local chapter and currently connected with this program. We'll be taking the question answer, whatever doubts you may have, you are always welcome to post your doubts as the talk progresses in your YouTube chat box. And we'll be taking the question as and when they appear. Okay, so let me start my talk here. NPTEL is an acronym, it's called National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. It's a joint say educational project of seven older IITs and IIC banks. These are the primarily eight institutions that started their journey or you can say joint project way back in 2003. And we have already completed 20 years of our journey together. Now this program is not only limited within these eight institutions, but we are actually taking the courses of coordinating the activities of about 50 institutions under our umbrella. So during 2003 to 2013, we actually developed the courses in two basic formats that is video course and web course. Video course means the recordings of the lectures delivered by the faculty to our own students in IIT. That was recorded and made available for the learner company. While the web courses were more likely you can say PDF document with little bit of animation and all that is to become, you can say supplementary study material or if you want to study in depth about a particular subject that was web course. Later on from 2014, we started offering courses for online certification purpose. With the addition of certain other components, it's not only the lecture, but other activities that takes place in a regular classroom. After incorporating all those activities, we started offering this courses for certification purpose. That means after completing the course, the learner should be able to take an exam and get a certificate from IITs or IIS or any other institution whose courses are coordinated by input. So during all these 20 years of journey, we have created about 3000 plus unique courses. And these contents are available or made available for the learner community across the globe to YouTube. And if you just see the YouTube subscription, it's 4.5 million plus. Although it's not an entertainment channel, but it's purely high, you can say, educational contents. In that respect, the popularity of this course is, you can really judge it from the number of subscribers and the number of viewers who are coming to this portal, YouTube portal. We have got a NPTEL HRD channel, YouTube channel to which these contents are disseminated. Now, for these 3000 courses, we have created about 60,000 plus hours of videos with many of the videos are having English subtitles for the benefit of the learners. So what started in 2003 with a vision to provide high quality, affordable education at large scale, which changed our track to offering the certification program, which is, you can say, learning from the faculty's best faculties from IITs, IISC or the most reputed institutions within the country, but also get a chance to get a certificate. And not only getting the certificate, aligning with the approvals given by NGC and IICP how to make best use of these resources for credit transfer mechanism. That is, adoption of my colleges, adoption of these courses by the colleges and universities. So now, these courses, once you say that we are offering the courses from NPTEL through different institutions, including IITs and IISCs, we need a platform. Earlier, the courses were offered to NPTEL only, but now in 2016, government has actually framed a new portal called SCOAM, which is again an acronym. That is study waves of active learning for the young aspiring minds. So this is the platform created by the ministry to which whichever agency wants to offer a course, online course in India, they have to offer the course to SCOAM portal only. There are multiple coordinators, national coordinators have been created to cater to the needs of a particular segment of learners. Okay, while there could be school children that could be out of school children, undergraduate or postgraduate from different branches. So catering all these group of learners by a single agency is not possible. That is the reason national coordinators targeting a particular group of learners have been created. And NPTEL has been created primarily to offer undergraduate and postgraduate engineering curricula based courses. Although we are offering the courses from basic sciences, humanities social sciences, law management and other disciplines too. Because most of the IITs, they have equally strong basic science, humanities social science management and in some institutes we have got law departments also. So from 2014 only we have started the course level certification program. These are offered in a MOOCs format. But MOOCs is a massive open online course. That means the course is open, delivered in an online mode to internet. And the number of learners who can enroll into the course is not limited by say classroom capacity in an university system. What do we have? You can have hundreds or thousands of students enrolling in a particular course depending on their choice. And these courses are offered in a triple A model. That means anyone irrespective of his or her gender, academic background, whatever be the profession, if they are interested to learn anything, they should be able to join this course anytime. Rather anyone can join into the course and complete the course at their comfortable time zone and wherever they are. So it's a triple A model. Now we follow a four quadrant approach. That means C is the last alphabet C that is courses. These courses are structured exactly in the same way how a regular university or college course is structured. That means it has a fixed syllabus. It has a start date, end date and every week there are certain activities which are actually four quadrant approach that we will see in detail in the next slide. Now these courses, once you say we are offering the courses, there should be a timeline. What is the timeline? We are offering the courses during twice during the year. One is during January to June and another is between July to December. Truly, these courses are offered between either January to April or July to October aligning with the semester system of Indian University. And these courses, since they are offered to the SWIM platform, all NPTEL courses are also called SWIM courses. Now, once we are seeing that we are offering the courses from January to July, that is the course start date. When do the enrollment starts? Enrollment starts actually two months ahead of the course start date. So if the courses are starting from July, the enrollment starts in May. Similarly, for the January run courses, the enrollment starts in mid of November. And as we say that it is triple A model, that means anyone can enroll into any course irrespective of what they are studying currently. So if a student of MCA wants to take a course from, say, mechanical engineering or humanities social science or English language, they can very well do that, which is not possible in a regular university framework. So a student or a learner can join in any course that interests them. Any number of courses is not one or two, whichever courses, how many courses they are interested, they can join. And for learning purpose, joining into the course is absolutely free. They don't have to pay anything for joining and learning the subject to NPTEL square. However, there is at the end, there is a certification exam. If someone wants to take a certification examination, which is conducted by IITs or NPTEL as a whole, then they have to pay the requisite fees. We'll talk about this in detail in the later slides. Now we say that we are offering the courses. So there must be a timeline that we talked about January and July. There should be a course format. What are the features? We say that we are structured exactly in the same way a regular course is offered in a university system. Similarly, here also the courses are offered in basically three formats. If you talk about in terms of hours, they are either 10 hours duration, 20 hours duration or 30 hours duration. Now we say that you are offering a course in a semester, which is 40 hours. Please note that these 30 hours is a condensed version. The faculty might have not taken even a half minute break. If there was some break during the video recording, that part has been removed. So this is a fully condensed one is equivalent to almost 35 to 40 hours of lecture in a regular classroom. And if you want to know that, okay, what is the duration for how long these courses will run? The duration in terms of weeks is that 10 hours course will be completed within a four weeks time. 20 hours courses will be completed within eight weeks times and it will take 12 weeks time to complete a 30 hours course. That means every week we are considering 2.5 hours of lecture. These lectures are not a single lecture of 2.5 hours. They are a smaller version of the lectures that is each lecture may not be more than half an hour. So we expect that could be about 5 or 6 lectures of tentatively about half an hour duration, which will be provided every week. Now these lectures in a classroom is delivered by the faculty in a phase two phase interaction mode. Whereas here since it is a MOOC program, so here the lectures are recorded and made available as pre-recorded lectures. So every week you will be getting 5 or 6 pre-recorded lectures of each of maybe 20 to 30 minutes duration. Then in a regular classroom you have an interaction that is where teacher will be interacting with you or you will be asking the question to the teacher. Since the courses are offered in an online MOOC, so naturally that interaction cannot happen here. So how does that interaction takes place? It takes place through a web-based interactive portal. We call it forum. We will just see, show you in the portal there is a tab called Ask a question. Through that interaction takes place. That means after going into the video, if you have got any doubt, you post your queries in a text format to the forum. And this will be answered by the faculty and the teaching assistants who are part of this course. Additionally, the faculty will also be interacting with the learners through a YouTube live session. The way we are conducting the session today, similarly the faculty will be available in YouTube. And the students who are learners of this particular course, if they have got any doubt, they will be posting their queries through the YouTube chat box. Which will be picked up and answered by the faculty director. In addition to this thing, that is web-based interaction and periodic interaction through YouTube live with the faculty, the research scholars, that is the PhD scholars under the PMRF scheme, Prime Minister Cicero scheme, those who are available here, they will be conducting the problem solving sessions every week. Because in a lecture, the teacher might be discussing on the theoretical aspect and little bit of problem solving approaches will be discussed. However, the problems will mostly be appearing on the weekly assignments. We'll show what is this. And the PMRF scholars will be assisting the students on giving tips how to solve the problems. If they have got any course related queries, that will also be answered by the PMRF research scholars. The faculty will also give supplementary study materials. It could be if the faculty has used PowerPoint slides, this will be usually be provided. Also, for some of the courses, the students will get access to the text transcript. This will be primarily in English, but for certain other courses, you may get the text transcripts in different regional languages. Okay, that we'll see in later slides. The faculty may also choose to give links to free web resources. And the fourth component is weekly assignment. After going through all the first three steps, the students will be exposed to a weekly self assessment quiz. To what extent they have understood the concepts that was discussed during the particular week, within the 2.5 hours of lecture. So there could be 10 to 20 questions as part of the weekly assignment, which the students have to solve within a period of 10 days time. Okay. And each assignment is graded out of 100. That means once you submit the assignment after 10 days time, after the expiry of the assignment submission deadline, you'll be able to see what is your score in that week's particular assignment. Okay. So these are the four parts. First is pre-recorded lecture video. Second is web-based interaction, primarily. Third is supplementary study material. And fourth one is weekly assignment, which are graded. And mind it, that this grading carries some weightage in the final certificate. So this is very important that you understand the concept properly and do solve your weekly assignments yourself without taking help from anyone or directly copying from someone else. The certification examination features are that I can, for learning purpose, I can take any course. I can learn it from my home at my own time and pace whenever I have time, I'll just study in that. But certification exam has a schedule. That is on a particular designated day, examination will be conducted in different centers played across the country. At more than 250 centers, we'll be conducting the examination. And for that exam, which will be conducted in a in-person proctored mode, the candidate has to physically go to the exam center, choose and buy them with the valid government I should identity card and write the exam. How will they write? There are two modes. Either the exam will be conducted in an online mode, that is computer based, or in offline mode. The fine distinction between these two is that in an online mode, the questions and answers all will be appearing on your screen. And you have to solve or select the correct options in the screen itself, in online mode. That means it will be computer graded. Whereas in offline mode, the questions will be appearing on the computer screen, but the students will be provided with conventional answer speech where they have to write the answers. Okay, so these are offline mode means the faculty will be manually assessing your answer speech. As we said, that exam is conducted on a particular date. During each semester, there are three days of exam. Say from July semester, which is right now undergoing, we'll be having three exam dates, one during September month and another two days in October. On each day, on each exam day, you'll be having two sessions. That means one in the morning between 9 to 12, another in the afternoon between 2 to 5. And you are in a position, if you want, you can actually write two exams on any particular day on one in the morning session, another in the afternoon session. So if you have selected two courses, and if you find that the exams are flashing on the same day, do not panic. Because if you have registered using the same email ID, in that case, you'll be given same exam center and one exam you can write in the morning session, another in the afternoon session. Now we have seen that for joining into the course, just for learning purpose, is fully free, is supported by the minister. But for writing the exam, there is a token, a thousand rupees fee is charged per course irrespective of the course duration. That is whether it's a four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, the course exam registration fee remains same. However, certain category of students like if you are belonging from SC, SC candidate group or the students who are unfortunately has some disability with more than 40% disability. In that case, based on the submission of or production of the certificate or medical documents in support of their disability, they are in a position to get a fee way but to the extent of 50%. That means in these cases, the students will be paying only 500 rupees and registered for the examination. Exam results will be published tentatively within 30 days from the date of examination. After that, we will be releasing the sport, we will be releasing the certificate also. These certificates will be soft copy of the certificates will be issued, no hard copy certificates. And this certificate will be signed by the institute which is offering the course. If you have taken a course which is offered by say IIT Haragpur, then the certificate signatory should be from the IIT Haragpur only. But it will each certificate will carry the logo of NPTEL and your swam. These two logos will be there. So whichever institute is offering the course will be getting a certificate signed by that institute official. Now the certificates are E verifiable. That means it will be a QR code. And if you get a certificate produced by any student, you won't have to come to IIT or send it to NPTEL for verification. You can simply scan the QR code and get this. You can verify the authenticity of the certificate from the NPTEL portal itself. Okay. Now the certification. So there are two components. Now we are saying that every week there is an assignment which is graded out of 100. And there is a final certification exam for which you are registering by paying the fee. Now in the final certification, both of these will carry certainty. Most of the courses except a few which are pro non-programming courses in nature. The final exam will carry only 75% weightage. And the remaining 25% weightage will be taken from your performance in the assignment. Okay, weekly assignment. Whereas for the programming courses like CC++ Java and Python, Verilog. For all these courses, you'll be having an additional comfort. That is 50% weightage will only come from the final exam. And 25% each weightage will be going to the non-programming test. And finally 25% from the assignment. Now how assignment scores are calculated? These assignment scores will be calculated based on the average assignment score. Say for a 12 week course there are 12 assignments each of 100. Now we understand the students are already doing a course elsewhere. So they may means one or two assignments. Considering all these experiences, what we say that for the 12 week course, we'll only consider the best eight assignment scores. So if you have submitted all 12 assignments, we'll just check which are the best at eight assignments where you have got highest score out of 100. Take those scores, calculate out of 800 what is your score and take an average of that. That is out of 100 what is the score and 25% of that will directly come to your certificate. For the eight week course, we'll only consider the best six assignment and based three assignment scores will be calculated taken into account for calculating a 25% of the average assignment score for a four week course. For getting a certificate, it is absolutely mandatory that you have to get 40% score individually in each component whether it is weekly assignment or final exam. That means in a weekly assignment average assignment score out of 100 should not be less than 40 or out of 25. Once you take 25% out of 25, it should not fall below 10. Similarly, in the final examination conducted out of 100, you should not get less than 40 or the score out of 75 should not fall below 30. So depending on the consolidated score that you score, get out of final exam and weekly assignment class if required on the proper non proper programming test will be giving you the grades and certificate. If your consolidated grade is less than 40, you don't get a certificate. We say you are unsuccessful. Whereas score between 40 to 59 is called successful completed you get a certificate. 60 to 100, these category of students will get a certificate which will have on top of it, it will be written a light word will be written. 75 to 89 total score. You will have along with the light word, you'll be having a silver medal symbol printed on your certificate. We call it a light silver. For the scores between 90 to 100, you'll be having along with a light word, you'll be having a gold medal symbol also printed here. So that will be called elite gold. In addition to this, if you have got scores within top 5% of the total successful candidates, in that case your certificate will also be carrying another top R seal. That is identifying whether your score is within 1%, top 1%, top 2% or top 5%. And this top R seal will carry certain additional benefits for the learners that we'll see later. How does an individual certificate will look like? It will look, the sample certificate is on your screen. Here, you can see that candidates photograph will be there, your name, the course you have done, the consolidated score, individual components, in your assignment, how much you have scored, in your final exam, how much you have scored. How many students have actually been successful in the course when it was offered? All these details will be provided along with certain badges like elite indicates 60 plus score, gold medal symbol means it is score is between 90 to 100. There could be a top R seal here to indicate the score is between top 1% to 5%. It will be at the logo of the institution that is offering, that has offered the course, your roll number, your QR code, all these details are provided. Now it's important to remember that NPTEL will identify the learners by their unique email ID. We don't identify you by your name. So as long as you use your same email ID in NPTEL portal, you will be able to trace what all courses you have enrolled and what is their performance. If you have done it last semester, what was the performance you can carry forward. Before you enroll into the course, please ensure that you check the examination date for that because if you are taking say more than two courses, you should ensure that not more than two courses has got the same exam date. If you have got two exam, two courses whose exams are on the same date, you don't have to worry because you can write in the 4-1 and up from the session. But if you are taking three courses whose exam dates are on the same date, you cannot write for one extra exam. Then right from enrollment to the exam registration, you must use the same email ID. Also, it is important that since this certificate will be produced by you for possibly credit transfer to the institute or you may be actually reproducing it to the prospective employers for the internship or job opportunities since they are coming from IITs. So you should always ensure that you are actually uploading a formal passport size photograph which sometimes we find they are not in a good case of photograph that are uploaded by the students. Also ensure that any courses will require the usage of calculator for calculating numerical problems and in the examination hall, you will not be permitted to use physical calculators. Okay, so in that case, only you have to use the on-screen calculator. So it is essential that if you are taking a course for which there are calculations involved, it is always better that you practice the online calculator during the learning phase itself, during the weekly assignment phase itself, you start using. How do you practice on that? What type of model is given? Just click onto this link, ecsi.com and here you'll be getting the same scientific calculator which will be available in your examination hall. So it is always advisable you make best use of these practices enough so that this is nothing new during your examination process. If a large number of students are enrolling, or you are anticipating a large number of exam registration from your college, then please inform NPTEL beforehand so that NPTEL can make necessary logistic arrangement for the students. We have seen the different features of NPTEL courses and all how the courses are offered. So now if we just go into the precise timelines, in that case you see that there are three groups of courses, four weeks, eight weeks and twelve weeks. So what we do, we actually segregate the four weeks and eight weeks courses into two different sets. The first set of four weeks and eight weeks courses has started from 24th of July during this run and the endowment was due to close on 31st of July but on popular demand it has been extended till 7th of August 2023. So since the course is already running, the course has already come to the second week so you don't have to wait till 7th of August, enroll into the course immediately so that you have time to actually go to the contents of first week, submit the assignments, second week go to the weekly content and also you have enough time for submitting the second week assignment. Without wasting much time, please enroll in the courses if you are planning to join the courses from the July run. All two of the courses have started from 24th of July the endowment process will close on 7th of August along with the first set of four weeks and eight weeks courses. The second set of four weeks and eight weeks courses will start exactly a month later that is from 21st of August and the endowment process will close on the same day by 5th of April. Now as we said that there are three days of examination one in September and two days in October so exam registration has already started the exam forms will be closing on 24th September examination that is the exam which will be conducted for the first set of four weeks and eight weeks on 24th September the exam registration form will be closing on 14th of August while for the second set of four weeks eight weeks and all 12 week courses your exam registration all 12 week courses the exam registration will close by 14th of August and only the courses of second set four weeks and eight weeks will have exam registration close-up date as 11th of September but the exam for all four weeks eight weeks second set and all 12 week courses will be conducted on 28th and 29th of October 2028. You might have seen that there are two deadlines closing of examination 18th of August and 15th September are week late week if you just pay within 14th August you pay 1000 rupees but if you are taking time and you can actually enroll until 18th August but you have to pay the late registration fee so you can avoid that just by being in time to complete the registration now as we have said that 601 courses that includes first set of four weeks first set of eight weeks and all 12 week courses the enrollment which was supposed to be closing yesterday has been extended till 7th of August 2023 so without wasting any further time enroll into the courses now once you want to enroll into the courses what are the steps that you should follow first you can go to the nptl.sc.in to see what are these 601 courses that are being offered now if you go to nptl.sc.in and slightly scroll down you will find that there is a list of courses there to click here it will open an excel sheet which is downloadable you can download it and you can actually filter here if what you see the timeline is given here you have discipline wise courses are segregated whether it is aerospace engineering agriculture bio technology discipline wise courses are provided additionally what all the information is available in the same excel sheet you have got the name of the course which is the faculty which institute he or she belongs to what is the duration of the course sometimes this course is coming from another new IIT but since this IIT is not directly part of the nptl program so their courses will be coordinated by another IIT say IIT Ropar is offering a course this course will be coordinated by IIT Madras and the certificate for that particular course will be signed by IIT Madras which does only okay so that is the coordinating institute what is the duration of the course you can also see whether these courses offered for the first time where it will be marked as new if it is offered, if it was created earlier and is on a read and move that is also indicated here the start date, all important time like start date, end date, exam date enrollment close up date exam registration date whether it is the level of the course. So that's undergraduate level, postgraduate level, whether it's a core or elective type of course, all these informations are available in the same excel sheet. If the course is identified for the faculty development program, you'll also get to know whether this course is a PPP-approved course or not. We'll also talk about the domain certification. And if any of these courses are linked to any of these domains, that is also mentioned that this is applicable for a particular domain. Then, course starting link. If you want to directly go to the course enrollment page, you can directly copy these and go to the particular course page. But we'll just take another look. Now, if you want to see, okay, before I say next semester, what are the courses are forthcoming? In that case, you can also see from here, semester information, say January 2024, course list or the timelines you want to see, click on to the NPTEL semester, to go to the NPTEL semester information page. Say January 2024, tentative course list is provided here. The same excel sheet, this is not final. This will be updated periodically as and when more and more new courses are approved or maybe some rerun courses have been approved for or consent has been obtained from the faculty for rerunning the course. So, this is a provisional data. This will be continuously updated. You can also get to know the timelines. January 2024, course offering timelines from here. And if you are planning to take or encourage your students to take these courses, you can beforehand decide when these, what are the courses they will be taking in a particular semester and what are the timelines. And if it is a rerun course, take the course beforehand so that during the runtime of the course, you do not have too much of pressure on you. As we said that for the rerun course, that means this course was created earlier and some component of the data is already available in the portal. Say we are offering, we are considering a course on, say Python programming. The joy of computing using Python. If you take this course, this is on a rerun mode, this time available. So, this is available in the Swayam for certification. This is also available under the self-paced certification program. What is this? We'll talk about this when we say NPTEL plus platform. Okay. What all informations are available here? We have got the weekly videos available. See? So, if you are taking this course, you won't have to wait till the course is available in the portal. Here it is already available in the rerun mode in NPTEL portal. You start learning. Once the course starts formally in the program, you only get connected to the faculty to the quorum for asking your questions and submit your assignments. The main thing is you have access to it beforehand. Okay. Then what else information is available to you? Say, sorry. Here, go to the download section. Under this download section, you'll be able to see what all assignments were offered giving one of the previous assignments. We said that every week there will be an assignment, but if you are first-timer in this program, you really do not have an idea what type of assignment questions are asked. So, if you just want to have an idea, for a rerun course, you'll be able to see a weekly assignment. Say, if I want to see the fourth week assignment, this is how it was looking like. Okay. So, you can actually prepare accordingly before the course goes to life. What else information is available under the download section? You have got transcript. We say that supplementary study material is one of the components is text transcript. Here, you'll find that text transcript of this course is available in different languages, including English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, all these things are available. So, if some of the students who are joining into the course, they might have studied in, say, Marathi Medium till 10 past two and if they find it difficult to follow the course in English language, this will definitely help them to understand the course. So, first, if you select a course which is on a rerun mode, ask them to get access to these text transcripts which are available in either English or in some cases, you may also find that the contents are available in your Marathi Medium also. Okay. So, these are available. And in some cases, we'll also find the complete course contents are actually been published in the form of a book. Say, if you are, say, if I want to download this book, say, in Hindi format, I'll be able to download and study the complete course contents in English. Okay. The Joy of Computing using Python. This is by IIT Roper faculty, the complete course content is available in English. So, these are absolutely useful for the learners. Okay. Additionally, from this page, we'll also be able to see the statistics under which you can see that how many students registered for the examination during the previous rounds and how many of them have actually successfully completed the course. This will give you some confidence like, okay, if this many people could complete the course, I should be able to do that also. Okay. So, that is your statistics. What are what you'll get? If you are a course stopper, your photograph will be displayed here. Your name and affiliation will also be indicated that you are such and such from reasons to do who are topper in this particular course and how much percentage of marks you got in that. So, this is a huge recognition that nationally you will be visible. Okay. So, you have seen the timelines, decided on to the course. If it is a rerun course, you have to know where to go and access to the contents. Now you have to enroll into the course to Swayam course. Just for enrollment course, click onto the Swayam.gov.in. It will take you to this page, close this tab. Then if you know the course, fine, you can directly write it here. Otherwise, you can just simply click on all courses. It will list out all the courses which are currently available from different national coordinators under Swayam. Now, if you are looking for, say, NPTEL, CEC, you just show all national coordinators names are available. If you are looking for only NPTEL courses, select NPTEL, put a filter here. Then you can also put a filter on the duration. Say, I am looking for a eight-week score. Then I am looking for a course from the computer science and engineering. Say, that means I will be selecting engineering and technology first. Then from subcategories, I will be selecting computer science and engineering. So now it will display what are the eight-week courses that are coming from NPTEL, leaving July to October. So here you have timelines like data science for engineers. This course is of eight weeks duration, starting from 28, 24th of June. All these data are available. Say, let me install into a, say, enroll into a course like, say, Introduction to Haskell Programming. I am interested into this course. This course is coming from CMI, Gen I Mathematical Institute, but this is coordinated by IIT Madras. The certificate will be signed by IIT Madras on me. So here I'll click onto this course. It will take me to the course page. Here I'll be getting further details about the course, a small video where the faculty might have discussed on the learning outcome, what they're going to teach as part of this course. You can also see about the courses written, who are the intended audience, which industry will recognize the value of this particular knowledge that is written under the industry support. You have got the course structures, faculty biography, course certification criteria, all these details that we are talking to be, everything is written here. Also, under the summary section, you have got all important points. That is, whether this is a new, is a complicated course or upcoming course. This is an upcoming course, elective course, duration, which category or discipline, what are the credit points recommended by NPTEL, important dates, and additionally, it is written as, this is an AICT approved FDP course. After going through all these, if I am interested to join, I'll click onto the join button. It will take me to the course enrollment page. Here I'll be getting a lot of options, but if I have got my personal Gmail account, I'll try to use my Gmail account, which I can carry forward all along. So here I am selecting my personal email ID. Now it takes me to the course enrollment page. Okay. Now here course enrollment page, certain data it will take directly from my email ID. Then I have to select, like see I have got name, my number, email ID I have got, which age group I can select from, 13 to 100 I can select, gender I have to select from here. Okay. Country I have to select pin code if I put, it will automatically select the state I belong to, I'm city or district. Then I have to select from the drop down, what is my current profession. There could be four options, student, faculty, employed, or other. If you are a student or faculty, definitely you are part of an academic institution. If you are employed, and if you are a student or faculty, your college could be part of a Swam local chapter or not, whatever it is. If you are employed, your organization could be part of NPTEL, industry associate program, or it may not be the case also. Or it could be you are a say retired professional or a homemaker, a homemaker. Okay. So anyone can join. So depending on your profession, select that. Your highest qualification is selected. Year of graduation that you are likely to graduate. You can graduate till about 20, 30. You want to select, select accordingly, whichever year that you feel that you'll be graduating. Then academic bank of credits. As we said in NPTEL, in Swam, you have got multiple national coordinators. If you want to take say courses from multiple organizations for credits. In that case, something like an Aadhar card or maybe you can say pan card, which will carry all information together. It's something like that. So through the DG locker, you have to create a VC ID, academic bank of credits ID, which will carry all data that is water courses you have done from different national coordinators. But as far as the NPTEL is concerned, we'll be tracking your water courses you are doing under this program to your email ID. So if you are from student or faculty category and if your college is a local chapter, select it as yes. And check if your college is a Swam local chapter, definitely from the drop down menu, you'll be able to see the name of your college. Say you are from Maharashtra, then choose a college. Here I can write here institute of management and rural development administration. So I have selected my institute and if you are from this particular college. Now I have to select the college or school role number degree that I am pursuing. Department I am associated with. Kindly note that we have selected few core disciplines which are available everywhere. So if your department does not match here, please select the department that closely matches with this particular department and select the year of your studies. It would be in the first year, second year or third year. So select that and select these two check boxes. That means you agree to the Swam terms of service and you agree to follow the honor code. Then join into the course. It will immediately give a message that I have enrolled into the course and take me to the course break. The course is already in the second week. So now you can see that. Thank you for any studying in the course that I have received a message. This message has also been delivered to my personal email ID through which I have enrolled into the course. I am not getting any questions in the YouTube chat box. If you have got any doubt, you are most welcome to write it into the chat box. Okay. So if you have gone to the course page, since the course is in the second week, you find there are certain things you can do. If you are first time in, first time joined in such program, in that case, you may have lot of doubts how to complete different activity. To help you in this regard, we can actually take the help of these new videos which have been created to guide you, to provide you additional support on different activities that you have to do as part of the learning process. Then if you have joined now, what is the week one contents have been released? Week two contents have also been released today. So here you click on to the week one, you get what all contents have been released. All the videos have been placed here. Additionally, you have got, say, which week one, which is given, practice week one, which is given, this will be graded, this will not be graded. Then there is a feedback form. That means after going to the first week's contents, you expect you to give a feedback to us. Similarly, here week two contents have been given. Additionally, you have got two assignments, one is for the grading, one is for the practice. Okay, you can download the videos from here. You can download the text transcript, English version of the text transcript from here. Additionally, the books can also be downloaded from here. Okay. Now, I have seen to, I have gone to the, say, help videos, gone through the introductory video. If I have doubt, I'll just click on to the ask a question button. Here it will take me to a forum where I will be posting my queries. Like many people might have now started asking their questions. So this will be answered by the faculty and the teaching assistants. So you can also post it here. You can also see what others are posting and what is the answer. If you know the answers, you can also respond to that. And if it is correct, definitely it's the appreciable. Otherwise, if there is a mistake, the faculty will correct you. Okay. So this is all about your interaction. Then comes your, say, week two, you have got graded assignment. This is the weekly assignment which will be graded. So there are about, so five questions have been given. There are certain points mentioned here. These points, if you calculate the total points, the total points is equal to 100. So accordingly, you can understand what is the mark of each particular question. Okay. Once you submit, this is the submission deadline is already given here. Beyond that, you'll be able to score out of 100 under this progress tab. Okay. Here, assignment one, once you submit, if the deadline expires, you'll see your assignment scope, not immediately, after the expiry of the assignment submission deadline, only the assignment score will be visible. Assignment two score also will be visible here. Okay. Then if your college has provided some faculty member or identify any faculty member, who will be acting as a mentor for you to provide local support at the first level point. In that case, the name of that faculty if they are available for here, so that you can choose that faculty as your mentor. So in the course page, you have got all four quadrants, that is the weekly videos you have got, you have got supplementary study materials, you have got interaction, and you have got weekly assignment. All these four quadrants, you have to do on a periodically basis, during the runtime of the course. Okay. After that, what is left out? You are now registering for the exam, but since exam registration has a timeline, so within that timeline, if you have decided to go for the certification exam, click on to this screen. Click on to this. It will take to the exam registration portal, where you will be selecting, which all courses you want to register for the exam on which day, and also you will be selecting your exam city, not center, it is city. Say you want to select Bombay or Mumbai. Within Mumbai, whichever city, if there are different jurisdiction that will be mentioned there, otherwise maybe if it is a soundly, you'll only say soundly, that city, if it is available in the list, the center will be decided by our exam partner, DCS. Okay. So from here, you will be selecting the courses, you will be paying the fee, and giving fee center choices. Okay. So now you have registered for the exam also. Now, before you go for writing the exam, I'd like to take into some of the statistics, which will build a confidence one. So far, we have created more than 3,000 unique courses, all right, but from 2014, we have offered about 5,372 courses. That means many of the courses have been offered time and again in read-on mode. And in these courses, we have received an enrollment of more than 2.4 learners, out of which more than 28.6-level learners have actually registered for the exam. And even if I haven't certificate, have been issued to the 18.8-level class learners. Okay. During the current run, that is July 2020, the semester we are offering about 690 courses. This has been our journey, what started in 2014 with simply just three courses, with one little more than one lakh people enrolling and 3,000 people registering for the exam. And if you just see on a full year basis, then during 2022, we had 1,200-thirteen courses for which more than 40 lakh people enrolled into the course and 7.5 lakh people registered for the examination. Okay. During last semester, January 2023, we offered 665 courses, which reported 24 black-plus enrollment and 5.16-thats exam registration. Okay. Now the enrollment process is about to close within next seven days. And the type of course we offer, yeah, we definitely, it comes from the IIT. We definitely offer the courses offering each and every branches of engineering that are available in IITs. We eat civil engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, electrical electronics, or mining engineering, textile, ocean engineering, architecture, aerospace, agriculture engineering, all these things are covered. We are also offering equally good number of courses. You can see the numbers here. Humanities courses, more than 650 courses have been offered here. Management about 550 courses have been offered. So whether these courses are very popular or not, whether it will attract thousands of students or maybe hundreds of students, we are not bothered about that. Since this program is supported by the Ministry of Education, so we are not looking into the business aspect. So whichever students or the learners might be interested to learn from NPTEL, we are offering the courses alligning with their requirements. Okay. Examines attendance percentage has been quite good. That means whoever registers for the examination, at least 90% of them, run up for the examination in the center. Passing percentage had been consistently 85% to 90%, but it has recently taken a deep after we introduced that 40% individual pass percentage in weekly assignment in final exam. Please note that final exam will be in the similar line as that of the assignment type questions, but you cannot expect the same assignment questions to be reproduced in the final exam. Final exam may have some component which is similar to assignment, but it may have additional components, additional questions. It may have a lot of problem-oriented questions. So if there are problem solving sessions conducted by NPTEL, please do attend to it so that you don't face difficulty in writing the examination. But please ensure, please note that assignment questions are not going to be asked in the final exam. It could be similar at time, but it could be different. Exam registration statistics, if you just see, we have been maintaining a quite a healthy standard that 40 men, 60 men versus 40 girls are actually writing the exam, which is better than, you can say, any of the educational institutes that gender speak is better than what is maintained in any other academic institution. So the benefits what are associated with this program is that first these courses are coming from IITs, the faculty members from IITs or IICs. So they will be insisting on the strong fundamental concept. The courses are offered from the emerging area, so they are industry-ready courses. They will be tuning you to the latest skins required by the industry. So it's a better job opportunity. Then soft-skill and language, these skins based courses will be offered to improve the confidence of the learners to face the interview. Because we know it's not only your knowledge of the particular discipline that we have learned. The computer science is not only computer science background that will help you, but your body language, your communication skills. How do you face the interview? All these things will matter and some of these courses which are coming from that area will definitely improve your confidence to face the interview. Then definitely the courses which are coming or the certificates issued by IITs or IICs will add value to your resume and improve your opportunities for getting jobs or internship. You can also use these certificates for the credit transfer or getting honors or minor degrees as mentioned by or as approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. Because ICT has said that if some institute can actually take 20% extra credit from here and give the students say we take honors instead of only we takes or they can give a minor degree from other discipline depending on the type of courses the student might have done. It will definitely help the learners to prepare better for the gate examination and for the faculty members. We can take some of these courses for faculty development program purposes. If you are employed elsewhere this definitely helps you in the reskilling or upskilling activity while in employment or if you are planning to go for a job definitely help you. Now at this point I'll take questions which has been asked by Anurad Dhamma sir. The students report that the registration from the examination form is not opening. No sir there is no issue as far as I am concerned but still if you feel that there are certain issues and if you are from a local chapter please ask the SPOC to report back in the SPOC WhatsApp group. Each SPOC is part of a WhatsApp group. Please request the SPOC that immediately bring it to the notice of our team so that you can look into it. But otherwise what I understand is there is no issue in that. Okay but still we'll be willing to look into that if there are any issues faced by the learners. So reasons for taking the online courses. What we said the most of the people they take these courses for credit definitely but a large number of them definitely take these courses for getting a job or internship or updating myself with knowledge in this particular field. Additionally, many people will be taking these courses for the research purpose or preparing for the competitive exam for all these things. What we talked about in the previous slide. And if you see that talk 20 courses where we see that number of enrollment or exam registrations are relatively higher. These courses are primarily aligned with the type of say skin cells which are required in the current job. We hear that okay, say cyber security, data science, AI, machine learning, in the internet of things, cloud computing, all these things are buzzwords these days. And possibly opportunities are more in this area. So considering that many people are taking such courses which gives a deeper understanding of the particular subject. They might be studying this particular course in their curriculum in their college but having this course from IIT will definitely add value to them. They'll get a lot more exposure here. In addition to that, you'll find a lot of people are taking the courses from say Java, Python, C, C++, all these programming languages. Okay. Also, many people enroll and register for the soft skill type of courses. The major challenge before NPTEL is to conduct the examination because these exams are conducted in-person center base. That means the student has to go to the center and write it in online or offline mode before sitting before the computer in a center. So we definitely need to know how many people will be writing and arrange those many terminals in a city on a particular date in a particular session. And since these numbers come to a very late state, it becomes difficult for NPTEL to arrange the number of computer in a particular city for conducting the exam. So if you know that your college will have a lot of registration, it definitely suggests you alerting NPTEL beforehand so that NPTEL can prepare or take appropriate escape to an inch number of seats to our exam partner. Okay. Now, as you said that PMRF scholars, we take the assistance of those people to provide some additional support to the learners. That is, if they have any doubt that doubts can be clarified by the business scholars associated with this program or if there are problems, then how to solve all these problems that can be handled by this PMRF scholar. So every week on certain days like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday on different times, like six to nine on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday, and three to nine Saturday and Sunday, we regularly conduct the live sessions where the research scholars will be conducting session for a particular course to address the, say, doubts or problem solving skills of the students. These information are shared to the students who are enrolled into this course, to WhatsApp and other mediums. And the recorded version of these lecture sessions are also made available so that if you cannot attend the live, at least you have got a chance to do it and learn it what discussion was done during that session. The feedback that we received from the learners, those who have attended this PMRF scholars is before you. We have just taken a few samples. You can see the last one problem solving through programming in C that students write that, again, problem solving session is very useful to us and it's better understand for the assignment problem. Okay, so definitely we'll encourage the students or the learners to take this benefit of this PMRF scholars session. Then the important part is NPTEL starts. If you are joining into this NPTEL program, depending on how long you are associated with NPTEL, how many courses you are taking in a semester or over a period of semester, and what is your performance? How you have carried well in the examination. We rate your performance and select or mark you as NPTEL starts under different categories. If you are completing a set of courses to get a deeper understanding from a particular area and completed within a certain timeline, we call that you are a NPTEL domain scholar. We'll look into this particular aspect in detail in the next slide. However, if you have taken say four to six exams in a semester and proper in at least the exam, then you are identified as NPTEL superstar. If you are enrolling or registering for 18 courses during your eight semester or four years of academic studies, and if you are completing the courses, two third of the courses that you have appeared, you are called NPTEL evangelists. Who are motivated learners? Motivated learners are those learners who during the last four semesters have actually registered for eight exams and has completed at least three fourth of them, 75% of them. Only this is NPTEL motivated learners. Now come enthusiast are exactly same criteria, but only thing is the difference between motivated learners and enthusiasts is that in motivated learners, the learning process has been continuously without a break in any semester. Whereas if there is any break, we are not looking for continuity here in NPTEL enthusiasts. What discipline starts if you have learned or taken the courses, comprising 50 weeks of learning from a particular area, which is different from the domain scholar than that case. And if your final score in each subject is equal to or more than 55, then you call it discipline start. And if you have present in at least four, five or six exam over a period of time and passing in at least four exam, we call it NPTEL believers. So these group of people are called NPTEL starts. There is a question from Professor Shankarappa. Hi, sir, I am APIS, SKID Bangalore. I have registered for three courses. If I get exam on same day, then what to do related to the exam papers? If I'm dead, can I take a certification exam with that thing? As I mentioned clearly in the previous slides that before enrolling into the course, kindly see that not more than two courses have got same exam dates. You will not be able to register for the three exams which are on the same date. You can only register for two examinations on a particular date. And if you have registered using the same email ID, we will ensure that you get the same examination center and you'll be writing the exam for one paper in the morning, one paper in the afternoon. Then comes NPTEL coming back to the presentation, NPTEL domain certification. This is a micro certification. That means we are identifying certain courses to give you a directed path in getting expertise in a particular area. We usually find people take the courses from here and there without knowing what of the courses they should take to gain mastery over a particular area. To help that, we have actually identified certain core courses and elective courses. If they complete those courses, they can at least get till that they have certain expertise on that particular area. From 12 disciplines, we have created 51 domains. Now, what are the criteria for the domains? Domain criteria is that whatever courses are specified for a particular domain, we have to complete all these courses, core and elective courses within a period of three years time. Starting to ending, it should not be more than three years. While in NPTEL, if you just get 40% score, you pass it. But for getting a domain certification, we cannot get less than 55 in a particular course and the average score in a six or seven courses. Average score should not be less than 60. Individual scores should not be less than 55. Then only you will be called a domain scholar. What are the domains available? Say these are named by aerospace, biotechnology, chemical engineering, civil engineering, all at least. Say I am looking for a domain from management. Faculty management is management. I am looking for a domain, say here, economics and finance. I am looking for a domain certification in this. So here it is said that the minimum 60 weeks of learning is to be completed. There are three core courses, which are the core courses, these are listed here. And if any of these courses are available for offering during this semester, you mentioned here. Then how many elective courses I have to complete, three elective courses. But please ensure that since there's a group of eight weeks, four weeks and 12 week courses, the courses to be selected in such a way that at least 60 weeks learning that criteria is made. So from here, I have to select at least three elective courses to get a domain certification. Okay, here in this course page, you'll get complete information on what is domain certification. In addition, what I am saying. Now, if you complete a domain certification, if you are a course proper, your photograph appears in the course page. But if you are a domain scholar, in that case, your photograph appears here. So who are the domain scholar? During the January to April 2020, these are the people who completed the domain certification. You find there are faculty members, they have got the student, you have got the employer professionals. So it's a mix of faculty, student and employer professionals who are completing your domain certification. So you can definitely complete a domain within a three to four semester. So it is always advisable that if you can enroll, maybe from the second semester for a particular domain, by the time you complete your three or four years of degree program, you should be able to get a domain certification from a particular area that will help you to get better job opportunities. So complete all the courses within a period of three years. Average score should not be less than 60 with minimum score not falling below 55. This is our sample domain certificate you look like, your photograph, your name, domain that you have completed, which discipline it belongs to, the courses that you have created, including that you are for all details will be provided here. And it's not that people only complete one domain. Yes, large part of them definitely have completed one domain, but we have seen that there are about 32 scholars who have completed two domains and there are at least four scholars who have completed three domains already. So every year we find, every semester we find a large number of learners are coming into this fold. And the most popular courses if you look, which is from the perspective of the industry, is definitely the type of skill sets required by the current industry. So whether it is a renewable energy, electric vehicles, or data science, Python, Java, maybe cloud computing, can say cyber security, all these courses are quite popular amongst the industry. So definitely you can encourage others your students to take these courses, which is offered under the NPTEL, Swayam NPTEL program. Then the initiatives that are initiated by NPTEL is that implementation of the critical framework in the universities and autonomous colleges. Okay, Swayam is offering the courses, taking the courses from NPTEL, CAC, UBC, and other institutes. Now the regulatory bodies are AICT and CICT and UGC. So they have already given a framework like, if the universities wants, they can actually take up to 20% which has been prescribed by AICT and UGC has prescribed that up to 40% of the semester load can be taken from Swayam NPTEL courses. So if they accept that, then they have to select the courses that they have to take for credit. And what is the credit equivalency? Against each course, I have shown in the summary section is clearly written if it is a 30 hour course, it is three credits, 20 hour course means two credit and 10 hour courses equivalent to one credit as far as NPTEL is concerned. But again, the universities and autonomous institutions, the academic council can suitably enhance it or modify it depending on their judgment. Okay, that flexibility has been given in the regulation by AICT and UGC. So many of the colleges have taken these three credit courses or 30 hour courses have been taken as four credit or five credit as the case may be or two credit has been modified to three credit. So they have to first approve that credit transfer framework by the academic council or the university, select the courses, select the credit equivalency, all this. Then what is the recommendation from our side? Based on our experience, we find that which suggests the colleges or the universities that do not encourage the students who are particularly in the final semester to take courses from credit courses from NPTEL. Because in case of any difficulty in getting the course cleared or getting the certificate, it will put their say, like your internship of job opportunities it will send to your board. Okay, so you can actually encourage them but it's advisable that they can complete the courses within second card or at max in the final semester before one semester before the final semester. Okay, since if they fail in a course, NPTEL will not be conducting any supplementary exam. So there should be some mechanism in place if you're planning to take the courses in the final semester that in case you fail it here, how your credits will be transferred. Okay, that should be a local mechanism to take the exam and give you a certificate. We always say that do not encourage or rather if possible avoid students of the first semester to take these courses because in the first semester, the students are new to this college environment. They have come from the school. It may take some time for them to adjust into the new environment. So from the second semester, you can encourage the students to take some maybe four or eight weeks long English or soft skill courses so that they are aware of how these courses are run, what are the activities doing each phase and then from the third semester, you encourage them to take the courses which are skill based, maybe programming courses, maybe the course which is not offered in your institute. You can give them that, okay. Also, you can tell that okay, you complete a particular course then come for the credit transfer. That is also possible, okay. We have already tied up an agreement which signed an agreement with AICT for providing FPP points to certain courses. If the faculty members complete certain elective courses at the UG level and all advanced courses, then as per AICT regulation, they can get a FPP certificate. For these, the candidate or the faculty has to identify that they are faculty member of the college, complete the course, then apply for the FPP certificate by paying a token fee. Okay, criteria for the FPP certificate is that how much is the weight of each course? Four weeks, NPTEL course is equivalent to half FPP of one week, 80 courses equivalent to full FPP of one week and 12 week course is equivalent to one and half FPP. Now every semester, as I have shown you in the Excel sheet, many of these courses are now marked as FPP courses. Please note that FPP course means, does not mean that this course can only be taken by the faculty. This can be taken by faculty, student or anyone interested. Only thing, if the faculty is taking this course, they are eligible to get it, FPP certificate, so they can apply separately. And every semester, if you see the last semester, we offered 665 courses out of that, 561 courses were FPP courses. The faculty members, almost 20, 17 to 20% of the exam registration comes from the faculty members only. You have seen the, you can say, domain certification page and a large number of the domain certification holders faculty members. So they joined in large numbers to take the courses for domain certification, learning newer things or maybe for mentoring or for all activities. SPOS is the single point of contacts in a college are the brand ambassadors of NPTEL. So they take a lot of pain in popularizing these courses. They take the information from NPTEL, pass it on to the administration as well as bring it to the notice of the students and motivate them for learning purposes. So we try to help them in their career or advancement. If any of the papers are accepted for a conference which is conducted in IITs or NITs or in few designated institution, we can see the list of institutions and from the NPTEL portal. If any of your paper has been accepted for publication or presentation in any of these conferences, then in that case, we can support you to the extent of 25,000 on three account. That is, you can take, say reimbursement of your registration fee, travel expenses and accommodation related expenses can be reimbursed. For this every month, first 10 days, there is a window open. Even means the faculty can actually apply for this support for SPOS program with all the relevant documents. And if they meet all the criteria, then we'll approve it and on completion of the workshop or conference. The faculty has to submit all the documents with vouchers and all for reimbursement of the expenditure. In case the SPOC is not in place in this benefit, but some faculty members from his or her college who is taking keen interest in NPTEL activities and helping the NPTEL learners, if one of their colleagues have actually has this opportunity, that is, the paper is accepted for presentation, then in lieu of SPOC, the faculty can also take this benefit. Then for the learners who are aspiring to clear the gate examination for other higher studies, joining for the master's program in the higher educational institution with scholarship or getting jobs in the public sector undertakings, which is now linked to the gate, they have to prepare for the gate examination well. What is one of the criteria? First thing, the gate will be testing a deeper understanding of the particular subject. There will be a lot of numerical problems and all. So they should have a clear understanding of the foundation. Now, NPTEL courses are offered by many senior faculty members who have been papersettered in gates. So they know to what extent a student should know. So if you have linked to that, if you're looking for a particular topic, and if we can tell you that, which course in NPTEL will discuss in detail about that, which you call Silver's Magnum, then definitely in addition to your books, you can also refer to this particular lecture to get deeper understanding, which has been taught by some of the eminent faculty members from deputed institutions. Then after going to the lecture materials, now you'll be solving some previous assignments, previous year's question paper. We are also there to support you. We have provided a previous get question paper video solution. So if you want to refer to any of the solutions, which you cannot do, please go to that particular discipline, select the year, then you can see how in video we have suggested that how the solution will be done. Before any exam, people will be looking for a mock test just to test what is the preparation on the whole syllabus, the preparation level. NPTEL is also assisting the learners in taking the mock test. Additionally, if they have got any doubt, the scholars are available. The services of research scholars are available to support in to the live mentoring sessions. Okay, now get syllabus mapping, we have created for 10 disciplines. We'll see more on this through the get portal itself. If you go to the get portal, come to this top, this one. Here if you click, you find this get syllabus mapping. Click on to the get syllabus mapping if you are planning to take a get exam from say computer science and engineering. Select which topic you are going to study. Say, I am looking for operating system. Then in operating system, which are the videos that I have to go through to understand deeper, to have a deeper understanding of the operating system, which is relevant for the get exam. Here I can click on to this, it will directly open that particular video here. Okay, this is how your get mapping has been done. So this is very easy because you don't have to search for 3000 percent. You can directly go to a particular lecture to this. See, you can see here, last week, mock interview, top parts, who all took this one, what are the percentage? Okay, all this. Later on, we can also see video solution. Say computer science and engineering. Select which year or topic. If I select here, say 2021, set 2, I am looking for, then the solutions are provided here. Okay, so similarly, you can also find other years or depending on whether you want to search it for the year or topic, you can find it. If you want to take the mock test, you can go to this portal and attend to the mock test. You can also attend to the live mentoring session to the get portal. NPTEL Plus is a platform which gives you flexibility to take some of these courses at your convenience. Now, NPTEL offers the courses which are primarily curriculum based. That means these syllabus are approved by the Senate of IITs or IAC or the institutions. And these courses are also offered by the faculty members from these institutes. Whereas NPTEL Plus has got a flexibility that these courses are not limited to the curriculum based courses, but this can be something on a training, on a particular topic, or maybe skill based some courses and the faculties are not only from IITs, but they could be from the industry also. Okay, and these courses, they are not only regular NPTEL courses could be here. Like I have shown you in the Python, this can be taken under the NPTEL Plus platform also. There are other self-paced courses, live and standard courses, short-term and long-term training program that goes on round the year. And you can go to this portal here, elarn.nptel.hc.in to get the details of what all courses we are offering under these. Okay, here if you, NPTEL Plus here, here you find there are certain popular courses which are available now. Here you can see more popular courses which you can take anytime. Okay, that means you don't have to wait till July or January. If you feel that in November, you want to start the course and complete a 30 hour course within 30 days time, you can reach here. Okay, so here you can do additionally what all courses are available here. Popularity, average dating, you can see here, programs, it could be NPTEL courses, it could be NPTEL workshops, what type of NPTEL workshops are available here. You can see ongoing courses, ongoing registrations. These are the additive manufacturing, construction technology, integrated marketing, communications, operations and supply chain analytics. These are workshops. Additionally, you can also see partnering courses, many courses coming from other people. Okay, all these courses. You can just click on any of these courses and it will show you like say, fundamentals of wireless communication. If you want to take these course, these course costs is 200 rupees. So you can just like we purchase in our, so different e-portals, e-commerce portal, I can just click on here, pay the fee and aggregate access to the course. And similarly, every week there is an examination, I can take the exam, in whichever date I feel like. Every week there is a selected date on which exams are conducted. So these are the basic differences that we have already talked. Then another point is your internship. If you are a course stopper, particularly the students, if you are a course stopper, we give you an opportunity to undergo internship under the same course faculty in IITS or IXC. What is what you have to do? Your job is only to do well in the exam. Just all things will be taken care of by our team. Once you are a course stopper, we'll get in touch with the course faculty to understand whether the faculty is available to offer the internship during the summer or winter breaks in IITS. If the consent is obtained, we'll write back to you. You don't have to write anything to us. We'll write back to you saying that if you are willing to undergo the internship, please fill out the Google form. And in the Google form, you have to submit three documents. One is a resume, a latest resume, your statement of purpose, what you intend to do during the internship and your last two semesters rate sheet. Depending on your performance in the NPTEL and all these three documents, the faculty will be selecting a group of students for undergoing internship under the faculty. Once the selection has been done, we'll give them an offer later to the students so that the students now moves into the IIT. Say if you are taking a course from IIT Madras and you are proper in that and you are selected for the internship program. In that case, the student will be coming to IIT Madras, stay here in the campus for four weeks to 12 weeks duration and work under the same faculty. During this phase, we don't have to pay anything to NPTEL, rather, NPTEL will pay you certain stipend. During your stay, whatever the hostile accommodation that we try to provide you, you have to bear the cost of the hostile accommodation. Okay, in case hostile accommodation is not available, in that case, you may have to make your own arrangement to stay nearby. On completion of the internship, you will be submitting a report to the institute to NPTEL as well as to the faculty and NPTEL will issue an internship certificate as well as reimburse your stipend amount, which will be mentioned in your offer list. For four weeks, four weeks internship will pay you 5000 rupees. For eight weeks, it will be 10,000 rupees and so on. Okay, this is what internship is. Additionally, the Texas Instruments is offering additional internship that is, if you have completed certain courses within certain semesters, then you are eligible for getting an internship of NPTEL under the TI NPTEL program. That is, if you complete basic electrical circuits and either analog circuits or analog IC design within four semesters and within six semesters, you will complete additionally, say any of these courses like circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-bearing electrical networks, best luck move, power management integrated circuits. If you complete these, then you get an opportunity for to be interviewed by the Texas Instruments for possible internship. If you are successful in the interview, then you'll be undergoing the internship as a full-time, for internship or full-time position with Texas Instruments. Okay. You might be aware that having a deeper understanding of the particular course knowledge is not adequate to get a job opportunity because once you are appearing for the interview, many other things will be paying a vital role. Like, how do you communicate? You may know the thing, but you really need to express yourself. So your written communication skill, verbal communication skill will be important. Not only that, before you apply for that, you really need to how to prepare a resume. How to search for the jobs in different social medias? What are your shortcomings? Okay. So NPTEL conducts two different types of stop-skill trainings for the learners who have taken NPTEL courses. One is of seven weeks duration, another is of 15 days, two weeks duration, during which the stop-skill trainer will be training them on different aspects. Okay. One of them is that they will be undergoing the employability assessment test in which they'll be telling that what are your shortcomings and all. How to improve on that? Okay. They'll also be undergoing English language test. There are online interactive sessions, take home assignments, and one-to-one mock interview. We usually try to provide history for the TR2, TR3 city college students because in many cases they do not have this option. So if your college is being taking the NPTEL courses and if there are about 30 to 40 students who might be interested to take this internship training, stop-skill training, do write back to us so that we can arrange it as per the mutual convenience of both the parties. Okay. Someone is asking like Shashan Bhukta is saying what are, why are the WhatsApp group link? WhatsApp group link is provided for all SPOCs. The single point of contact, we have got about 13 groups to which NPTEL regularly connects with the SPOC, single point of contacts of NPTEL. Okay. So if you are still not part of that, please write to us. We'll send you the invite link and you can join from there. So the impact of stop-skill training has been phenomenal. The students have been writing that they'll see how their NPTEL provided me one of the best opportunities to improve my communication and presentation skills, which are truly helpful for me to get interviews. Also NPTEL is a good platform for building your basics and getting in-depth knowledge of subjects to advance your career, writes one of the students. Okay. Now we are also connected to the industries for various reasons. We know they're at about 5% to 6% of the learners who are from the industry, who are doing not only different courses, but they are also doing their domain certification. So we already a group of industries, say employees, they are taking these courses on their personal front. We are also connected to different industries so that the internal resources, the staff members can be trained to NPTEL program. Okay. Not only that, NPTEL was created just to reach the gap between industry requirement and the academics. So we take the regular inputs from the industry to improve on our course delivery or type of courses that we want to offer to the learners. Similarly, many of the industry experts have joined hands in offering, co-offering the course along with IIT faculty members. So for various reasons, NPTEL connects with the difference industry partner. We are currently connected with more than 80 industries, both from the government and private sector, from IT sector to healthcare sector, consumer electronics, power transmission, generation, all industries are connected to NPTEL. Okay. And we are also conducting the live session to give, we can say upper understanding, like what industry things in which way industry is moving so that you know how to prepare for the jobs. Leadership qualities, how to build on that. All these specialized stocks are given by the industry experts periodically. Additionally, as we say, there could be some students from a college who cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees free. Okay. For these, if the college feels that, okay, particularly from the tier two, tier three towns, if they feel that some of the students who cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees, and after verifying the state financial status, they can actually recommend the name of those students to NPTEL for a possible fee waiver. If the NPTEL, the funding that is required to support this initiative is coming from the CSR initiative of the industry, that is corporate social initiative of the industries, through that we get some funding to support the needy students which are recommended by local chapter quality. Okay. So the SPSO has one asking, there are to be some students who are not in a position to pay 1000 rupees. This is the platform, if you feel that, okay, you have got some students who meet this criteria that they really cannot pay the fees, write back or send your recommendation to NPTEL, NPTEL based on your recommendation and based on the availability of the funds, it will be approved. And initially the students will be registering for the examination by paying full fees, but later on on successful completion of the course, they will get their 50% fee refunded. In many colleges, the college will be taking the fees and paying in bulk. In that case, if the fee waiver is approved, the fee waiver amount will be refunded up to the college itself. So whichever account from where the fund was transferred to NPTEL, for example, registration, the refund will also be made in that same account. We have already given this benefit to more than 1.4 lakh students from tier 2, tier 3 cities, which has spread across the country. Translation is another initiative. You can, I have shown you for a particular course that under the download section, in addition to what you got in the assignment, you also had transcripts. It's not only transcript in English, but it's translated version into different regional languages were available. So you can also think about getting access to those things from there. But as you understand, NPTEL will not have expertise on different regional languages. We definitely need your support to take this process forward. If some of the faculty members are having a good depth of understanding of a particular course and has got good competency of the local language, then you can approach us and take part in the translation activities. That is, you'll be given a transcript in English, which you have to understand and convert it into a different language. For this, you need expertise on the subject and as well as deeper, you can say understanding of your local language. So a good grasp of the local language. These are paid copies. And if you have seen the booklet that has come out, it will also be at the name of the faculty who has translated this into that particular language. Okay, there is a recognition. There is a remuneration, remuneration also involved with this. So we definitely ask the faculty members to join in this initiative and convert these into different Indian regional languages. We are currently working in these languages. Assam is Bengali, Gujarat, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu. And you can see that not all courses, all regional languages, we are in a position to offer too many transcripts. Okay, so if you have got expertise in this, definitely it will be helpful for the individual to get up to the needs of the needy students, particularly from the tier two, tier three towns. Whatever we do, all our information is published through the social media handles like LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We have got good number of followers. The numbers are before you. So you can actually follow these handles and regular, get regular updates on what goes on in NPTEL. Okay, we are also connected to you through the WhatsApp, as I say, if you are a SPOC, please join in the SPOC group if you have not already so that regular updates on daily basis, updates are provided. If you are having some difficulty, you can post it there and immediately attention of our team and is at best. There is the NPTEL stars that we talked about earlier and also recognize that they are given a token, mementos in the form of t-shirts, which they can proudly show it to the outside world on their achievement that they have done these many courses. We also conduct laboratory workshops, usually of one week's duration where a group of students will be going to another institute and you can say attend to that program. During the first five days, they will be taking theoretical class and conducting two experiments per day followed by an examination on Saturday. On successful competition of the program, the certificates will be given to the candidate. Okay, also we provide, you can say, we try to provide an accommodation in the hostels of the particular institute and the charges towards the lodging and boarding has to be taken care of by the student. Additionally, the student has to provide what it is as fee to the NPTEL for attending this particular workshop. Now comes the local chapter. I understand the Institute of Management and Google development has been, has joined in this whole very recent thing. To become a local chapter, what is required? You don't require a building, you don't require a room, dedicated room, not any charges are involved. What is required is just an interest to join into this program. A letter from the head of the institution, okay, fill up the form and join into this. If you want to get the details what all documents are required, just click here, nptl.sc.inlocalchapter, join as a new local chapter, you'll get complete details what all documents are required here. Okay, you get a lot of other information. The details is provided. During the initial stage you have to provide, identify a faculty will be acting as a SPOC, a single point of contact, a photograph of the SPOC, college logo, credit transfer document if it is done, all this information you have to provide and you'll become a local chapter. Once you become a local chapter, you'll be as dedicated page of the college will be created under NPTEL, where the complete data will be provided later to NPTEL activities. What are the benefits? First, you'll get a dedicated page of your local chapter. Then whoever is joining into this NPTEL course, you'll get complete information of the student through the dashboard. SPOC has got a dashboard access so they'll be able to get access. For the needy students, the SPOC can actually recommend the names of the needy students for possible TOF. As we said, some faculty members can become a mentor. What this faculty has to join into the course, like a student does, only thing select the name of the fact, select it as, select faculty as your profession, select the college name, then SPOC will identify or mark that, okay, you are a mentor. Then only you can become a mentor and the mentor has to be accepted by the student. So mentor addition is possible only if you are from a local chapter. Then what else you get? More than 60,000 hours of videos. These are available. Now, if college wants that, they want to copy these contents and make it available as part of their local repository in your E-Lite radio. In that case, they can simply send a hard disk for required capacity to NPTEL. NPTEL will copy the contents to your course and make it available to you. Okay, so that is another advantage. Now, if say your college is taking these courses for credits and there are about 200 students who are planning to write the exam, but there is no exam center nearby. In that case, if you have good number of students, you can write to NPTEL, being a local chapter, try to provide a exam center very close to your place. Okay, so you can definitely put a request for the local exam center and based on the performance of the students, there are two recognition. If there is a faculty who is mentoring a group of students, the mentor gets a recognition and also based on the performance of the students, then in that case, you get a recognition for the college also. Top 100 colleges are recognized as AAA, AA or A-Created category and they are recognized by doing the felicitation workshop that will conduct giving regional workshops, SPS workshop that will conduct after the exam. Local chapters we are currently connected with more than 5,600 colleges spread across the country. Initially, we'll be getting, we can say active local chapter tax provided at least 25 students are writing the exam and 13 of them or 50% of them get a certificate. In that case, the first recognition comes out as NPTEL active local chapter. We have got about 50 centers outside India also or at our local chapter. The maximum participation we find comes from the NPTEL local chapter during the July to December, 2022, almost 90% involvement can come from local chapters. New local chapter solution is that initially, you can choose to take soft skill courses or English courses. Later on, you can actually expose them to programming courses and skin based courses like data science, IoT, machine learning, et cetera. We can always encourage them to take courses which are relevant for the particular domain and within three or four semesters if they can complete that. They can explore the gate examination portal, not only for writing the exam, but even for getting a deeper understanding, practicing a lot of problems. Initially, if they choose to take lead on courses, then they have got complete statistics before them. So that will be useful. And definitely, if the college can allow or say identify a faculty who will be acting as a mentor, then definitely the students get benefit of that. You can select a dedicated time slot for the NPTEL activities in the college and please ensure that if your college is encouraging the students for taking the courses, do not put any college activities either during the date of examination or maybe one or two days ahead of that, giving some space for the learners to take the private preparation. As I said, based on the performance of the mentors, mentees, the student that the mentors is actually handling, based on their performance, if the mentors get 10 mentorship point which is linked to the performance, then they get a mentor certificate also. Okay, with this, I'll stop at this point and I am not finding any questions. If there are any questions or this has been noticed by the SPSC, I'll hand over the stage to SPSC. Ma'am, you can take over and if there are any queries, I'll be ready to answer that. Go back to me. As I said, recently, in the month of February itself, we have started this local chapter and the students are still registering for this course and I'll just share the screen. So I'm the SPSC, Dr. Souvena Patil for this local chapter. So for this July enrollment, right now, here about 12 students has registered. Very few student, they have registered for software testing. I guess this course is a four week. Then some has already registered for ethical hacking. Then they are mostly registering for cloud computing, operating system and Java programming. So yes, in the month of August, we'll try to enhance the count of enrollment as well as they will go for the registration. We have exam center in this Angli. The student will be benefited with that. So I hope all students will take the benefit of this courses provided by NPTEL. So I hereby thank Sikshankar Das sir from IIT Madras for guiding regarding NPTEL awareness. I thank Jayeshri madam from IIT Madras stream. From NPTEL for organizing this session for our students of IMRDA, Institute of Management and World Developer Administration, Sauli. I thank all the nearby colleges students who have joined for this session. And as well as I thank all our students of IMRDA for joining and listening the session. Yes, thank you so much. The feedback attendance link is shared in the chat box. Student of IMRDA can feel the attendance link. Jayeshri, you may take over. Jayeshri.