 Good morning everyone. Welcome to this NPTEL awareness session for students that we are conducting. I am Dr. Jay Krishnan and a senior scientist at NPTEL IIT Madras. Today we will be talking about what the benefit of NPTEL is and how you as learners can join NPTEL courses in the upcoming semester and further improve your prospects for career, higher education and future learning. So let me start by sharing my screen. I have a small presentation for all of you. So I'll just share my screen and we'll start off. I hope all of you are able to see the screen. So NPTEL or National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. It started off as a content creation and repository for self-learning in 2003. Until 2014 we had created a lot of such content both video and web-based content and we have put it in the NPTEL dot ac dot in repository. From 2014 onwards with the rapid advancement in technology the massive open online courses became quite popular and NPTEL now moved to a semester-based certification courses, started offering semester-based certification courses from IITs and IISC. So there are seven IITs and IISC as part of this project and this project is funded by Government of India Ministry of Human Resources and Development which is now the Ministry of Education. So this is a small glimpse of the statistics. So look at the numbers 2000 plus courses, 1 billion plus YouTube views, 3.1 million YouTube subscribers, 44,000 video in the NPTEL repository. So it's a very huge, excuse me, it's a very huge repository that we are talking of. And if you look at the certification courses which started in 2014, there also we have 2400 plus courses, 500 more are getting added in this semester, more than 1.24 crore enrollments have happened across these courses, 11.24 lakh exam registrations have happened and all this for the certificate. So this is the valuable certificate that we were talking of. It is a Swayam. So NPTEL also comes under the Swayam umbrella and the respective IITs logo would be there and it would be signed by the Continuing Education Office from the respective IITs. So this is a brief statistics about the number of courses. So we started off with three courses and around 3000 exam registrations in 2014. Last year, even with COVID, we were able to do exams for these two semesters. It happened in December and we had a total of 809 courses, more than 29 lakh enrollments and around 20,000 finally, 2 lakh people finally writing the exam. Now, what is a MOOC all about or the NPTEL course certification course about? So NPTEL certification course has five different components, course content, which is pre-recorded video lectures. It will also have weekly assignments. So all the pre-recorded lectures are released every week. So starting on a Monday, you will have content for that week along with its assignment. By content, we mean both the video lectures and its text transcripts. So these content would be available in the NPTEL online course platform. If you have doubt, there is a discussion forum where you can post your queries and the course team will answer it. Apart from this, to ensure that there is a synchronous interaction, monthly ones for a course, we also set up live interaction sessions by the respective course faculty. So this is a place where learners can directly interact with the faculty and clarify their doubts, give their comments, suggestions regarding any aspect of the course. So what are the different courses in NPTEL? So by the numbers, you can see we have 500 courses. We focus primarily on technology or engineering field. So we have both basic and advanced courses from engineering field across multiple disciplines. But along with that, we also have general courses, which are in the liberal arts or in management section domains, and also very job specific requirements that are currently very much trending. So for example, machine learning, data analytics, VLSI design, internet of things, wireless communication, all these are part of our offering. Now, along with the course offering, what we also do is we do a multi-pronged strategy by engaging with multiple stakeholders. So for example, we have what we call as NPTEL, so I am NPTEL local chapters across the country. So we have more than 4,000 plus local chapters. What are local chapters? Local chapters are nothing but a unit inside a college, which actually works, takes up NPTEL courses, disseminates NPTEL related information and encourages learners to join NPTEL courses and write exams. This I'll detail it a little bit more about local chapters shortly. But the idea is that through these local chapters, we also connect with individual colleges across the country. So we connect with a large group of students through local chapters and we have seen that this kind of partnership is very beneficial when it comes both for the students as well as all those who are involved in this process. It makes it more, it provides a human touch to the entire course offering. Along with that, we also engage with industry. We have agreements MOUs with industry where industry themselves use NPTEL courses for reskilling their workforce. But along with that, they also support us through CSR funding. They also, some of the industries are also very keen on co-offering courses with the IIT professors. We have already had some courses being offered in that format. And industry is one more important thing that we see is they are very much interested in hiring candidates who have selected a particular set of courses. And few industries have done this already where they have waived off the written off-campus test and they have actually directly selected from the NPTEL pool. Learners who have completed specific set of courses with a specific set of marks criteria, they have directly called for interviews and have provided job offers. So this is something that we see more industries are keen on. And this is one more, if you are a student and you are towards the final year and you haven't heard of NPTEL, this might be one reason why you would want to join NPTEL online courses. So I said about colleges. I said about industry. Another important aspect is the policy making bodies, AICT and UGC for higher education. We regularly engage with them. We exchange ideas. We also look at policies. We also provide recommendations of suggestions on policies for making online courses more attractive for students in college. So this is in 2016, both AICT and UGC have provided guidelines to universities wherein they could take 20 percentage of a semester credit from SWIME and NPTEL courses. So this is already there and I think universities, many universities have already implemented this. Some universities are in the process of doing this credit transfer. It's called credit transfer. And while they are doing this credit transfer, it's primarily because of this first bullet. We have a proctored exam, so which means at the end of the NPTEL courses, so you have to register for a separate exam separately. The exam registration forms are open right now, but this has to be applied separately. And for this exam, you have to go to a center. It will be a computer-based exam and you have to take that exam in the center and there will be proctors monitoring or invigilating the entire process. So this lends a lot of credibility and value for the certificate that you obtain in this fashion. So how do you enroll in NPTEL courses? So the first thing is you have to go to swim.gov.in. So that is the website, swim.gov.in. In that, you can click on all courses. So a catalog will come. Within the course catalog, you have to select NPTEL. Or you can directly use this particular URL, swim.gov.in slash nc underscore details NPTEL. You can click on the view course catalog. As I said, there are around 500 courses that are available. Click any of your course, interesting course and you'll see a course preview page like this. The preview page will have the course title, the professor who is taking it, the institution from where it is being coming, some important things like prerequisites, intended audience. So who should ideally take this course and if there are any industry support for that particular course. It will also provide details on the syllabus that will be covered in the course and the important dates. Start date of the course, end date of the course, when is the exam date and when is the enrollment ending. Now all the NPTEL courses or all the swim courses for that matter, the enrollment is absolutely free. So it means that all you need is to do a registration in the swim.gov.in and you can join any course and learn from it because we support the motto of anyone, anytime, anywhere learning. However, if you want to get a certificate, that certification process is slightly involves cost and currently the examination fees is 1000 rupees per course. So 1000 rupees per course is the fees and you have to, this is because we conduct exam through an exam partner and the exam partner has certain charges while they conduct these exams. Okay. So this is the process of enrolling in NPTEL courses. The course enrollment is open right now. You can go in there as you see the start date of the course is 18 Jan, which is another three, four days from now. The enrollment will end by 25th Jan, that is hardly 10, 12 days from now. Okay. So please make sure that you go there and look into the course catalog, select the course that you would want, just enrolling it because it has no financial implication. You can see what is happening and you can learn from that course. And then if you're further interested, then definitely register for the exam because it is worth the value that it provides in your resume when you go for an interview that is slightly higher as I would, so I'll be explaining about what some of these people, some of our learners have already done and what we are doing to support these kinds of learners so that they could excel in other areas post the course. Okay. So after joining, what is next? I mean, so all of you, I mean, I told that the exams are starting on, sorry, the courses are starting on 18th of Jan afterward. Every week content will be released. You should start watching the videos. There will be assignment questions, submit assignments within the due date. If you have any queries, post your queries in the discussion forum. And also the notification regarding live sessions would be done. The live sessions, please join the live sessions to directly interact with the instructor or just listen to what questions other learners are asking to the instructor. Some important tips if you're learning from the course. While watching videos, always make sure that you are also preparing your own notes. Okay, because with the video, you have the flexibility to pause, you have the flexibility to rewind, a lot of these affordances are there. Make sure that you use it. Assignments, we have something called as an honor code when it comes to assignment submissions. Make sure that you do your own work. That is what essentially honor code means. Do not copy. You can ask queries regarding specific aspects of the assignment question, but do not blindly copy from someone else. Make a habit of going through the discussion forum for the kind of questions and the comments that comes over there. And of course, participate in the live sessions and get your doubts clarified. To register for the exam, already the exam form is up, fill the exam form, pay Rs. 1000, go through the assignments and your notes to prepare for the exam. Another important thing if you're registering for the exam, you should score a minimum of 40% in assignments. So the online assignments are worth 25 marks. So out of that 25, you should get score 10 out of the 25. The formula for calculating the online assignments course is given inside each course. Use that formula. Make sure that you are within, if you have already registered for the exam, make sure that you cross that 10 marks. Because if you do not cross that 10 marks, then unfortunately, we will not be able to issue a certificate, even if you score really well in the main exam. This main exam is, as I said, it is done at centers. You will have to come to the examination center and write the exam. This is just like a GE gate or those kinds of competitive exams that you generally see. So how to choose the right courses? As a student, if you're having a doubt how to select the right set of courses, the important thing to note is first check with your college, whether a college or university to see whether credit transfer is applicable at your college or university. If it is there, then definitely go and register for a course, enroll for a course, and register for its exam. This mark can be added to your final mark transcript. That is what credit transfer means. Suggestions while taking the course. So even if there is no credit transfer or let's say there are very stringent credit transfer policies, we always encourage students to first opt for electives, courses which are marked as electives in the course category. So let me just show you that. So you have something called, this is called course type. So this course type elective, if you see that, then that is something that you can actually look at, explore and try to join. That is something that we will always recommend because many colleges, they have very different policies regarding how credit transfer is done. Some would say these kind of courses only will be applicable for credit transfer. This kind of courses will not be applicable, but generally they are all welcoming when it comes to electives. So electives are generally, it is seen that most colleges may not have enough faculty to take all the electives. So it would be really, what do you say, an add on to your mark transcript if you can do an elective from, take one elective from NPTEL and put it as credit transfer or even learn from these kind of courses. Now, based on your interest, there are two different types of NPTEL courses that you should look at. Now, if you are looking at bread, that means skill sets from multiple domains or generic skill sets like communication skills, spoken English, etc. Then look at these kind of courses. So this is called bread building courses. So an electrical engineering student, they want to do computer science. So it increases their bread. So it's not just electrical engineering that they are well versed with. They are also taking courses from computer science. So this are mechanical engineering. So multi domain courses, this will increase the bread that you have. And this is ideally suited for people who are planning for placements after four years of your undergraduate, three years or four years of your undergraduate. If your passion or if your motivation is to pursue higher studies, then what I would recommend is courses that build depth to your current understanding. That means more advanced courses within the same domain. For example, if somebody has done a communication course, maybe they may want to do a little bit more about, let's say advanced wireless communication. If somebody has already done, let's say an introductory programming, they may want to do something more advanced like design of algorithms. This increases the depth, this increases your understanding about programming, your understanding of algorithms, et cetera. So this is something that you can actually use if you're pursuing higher studies like masters or doctoral studies. Another important thing that you can look for is if the course is new or rerun. If it is rerun, always the videos will always be available in NPTEL.ac.in, which is our repository. So you can actually study from that much before the course starts. And also the important statistics related to the course is available in NPTEL.ac.in slash NOC. So what this helps you in is look at what was the general trend? How difficult was the exam for the learners? How many learners applied for this course? All this, you can get an idea from this open statistics. It is available in public. It is in the NPTEL online certification webpage. The website URL is NPTEL.ac.in slash NOC. So I'm just looking at if there are, so I see that around 35 people are watching the session right now. And if you have any questions at this point, please feel free to raise it in chat. We have enabled chat option for YouTube. You can actually post your questions in the chat and I'll try to answer some of them. Any questions till this point from anyone? Okay, I don't see any questions specifically from people. So let me continue with the presentation. So as you see, it's not just students who are learning from us. We also have faculty. We also have industry representation. And for all the various reasons that you see over here, our exams, we typically get a 90 percentage attendance and almost 70 percentage of them pass our courses. So it is not so hard to pass the course. However, there's a cabin. Passing the course alone may not help you in standing out. And I'm just going to show you some important achievements that people have done. I've already told you one way of selecting courses from NPTEL course catalog. This is another thing that people would want to look at. And this is something that is really sought after by industries because this is called a domain certificate. So under each major disciplines, we have what we call as a domain. So domains are something equivalent to minus. However, the requirement for a domain certificate is slightly higher from a regular NPTEL certificate. You don't have to do any separate exam to get a domain certificate. Your current achievement in the course, the set of courses will make you eligible for a domain certificate. So why the domain certificate? It is meant to guide learners to specialize in an area. So it could be from a job perspective or it could be from a research perspective or even for higher education. How it is done, there are a set of core and elective courses that we have identified. If you complete those courses, get a certificate with a minimum score for each course greater than or equal to 60, then and all these courses have to be completed within three years. Now to know the domain location, please go to NPTEL.ac.in slash NOC. There is a tab called domain. You can get the details of the courses in each of these domains. So for example, artificial intelligence will have courses from artificial intelligence, basic programming and there may be even something on data structures, those kind of building blocks which are required for artificial intelligence. Example, algorithms. So design and analysis of algorithms is something that a person who is working in artificial intelligence surely should know. So these are certain courses, mandatory core courses and there will be electives. As in you can do an artificial intelligence specialization with something like language processing, national language processing or image processing. These kinds of specializations do exist. So each some example of different disciplines and domains are listed in this slide to show you a very detailed example of what we call as core courses and elective courses. Please see this particular slide. We have this sample domain of flight mechanics from aerospace. There are around six courses. Out of the six courses, students have to complete four of them and these four are core courses. So these what you see over here out of the six core courses, there is an OR. So it could be aircraft design or introduction to aircraft design. It could be introduction to experiments in flight or introduction to aerospace engineering flight. So these are the kind of courses that you have to take and there are certain electives. So in the electives, you need to complete two courses out of five and which are these electives are also listed. Some electives are in the process. So it may soon come in our NPTEL courses, course cap log. A total of minimum 50 weeks of instruction should be completed because typically NPTEL courses, they are offered in three different duration based on what the focus point is. So there are four week or very short courses, eight weeks which are the medium term courses and there are these long courses for 12 weeks. Again, every course, it will get completed within a semester. The maximum duration is 12 weeks. This is the longest and even the credits are transferred based on the duration. So based on the duration of the course, the way you select the core and electives, one more important thing, there is a minimum duration that the total domain should complete. That is the minimum 50 weeks that we are talking about. Some of the domain scholars, one June 2019, Pamir Roy, he was the first domain scholar. He is a mechanical engineering student. While he was doing his second year, he completed an artificial intelligence domain. And this is what I already told you. Learning is anyone, anytime, anywhere. We don't have any boundaries for learning. Neither do NPTEL provide any boundaries or prerequisites. The only prerequisite that we don't enforce these prerequisites. So if you are interested, that is the primary reason why you should be learning. Okay. We just support you in it. In our subjects, we definitely say there are certain prerequisites which are required to learn that subject. So if you see something called prerequisites, what we mentioned, what we mean is that you should have a familiarity or a good understanding with the topics listed under prerequisites. With that, you can continue learning with any of the online courses. So this is something that we always say. Now, domain scholars are one among the many different, what do you say, recognitions that we do. We have something called NPTEL staffs. Now, these are people who continuously take up multiple NPTEL courses to really well and are really exemplars for others who want to take up online courses. So we have seven categories, domain scholars, superstars, evangelists, motivated learners, enthusiasts, discipline stars and believers. Now, these kind of categories will categorization or the tag that we give is one more important thing that you can always, all the photos and just like how the domain scholars are listed, we will have each of the stars name, photo, etc. details put in our website. You can go to NPTEL.ac.in, NPTEL staffs to see the details about what each of these mean and who all are these learners currently. I had already talked of NPTEL local chapters at the start. This is what the concept is. At a college, you will have a single point of contact, it could be a faculty or staff who directly interacts with NPTEL office. So when you set up a NPTEL local chapter, then all the information that is required with necessary support is being provided to the single point of contact. So from a college, a representative can become the single point of contact and they can do a lot more to the students inside the college. They can disseminate NPTEL related information. We will make them aware of, we have a specific portal for them that they can see how the students are performing, what all their students have done. All this is provided to the single point of contact. Another important thing is the single point of contact can nominate mentors from the college and the mentors can help the students further while they are learning and why we say being a local chapter is important. You can see from 2017, more than 70% and in 2019 last, we had 82% of the exam registrations coming from the local colleges, which have a local chapter, an NPTEL local chapter. I mean, there is no restriction on what this local chapter is. I mean, it could be a arts and science college, it could be a medical college, it could be a law college, there could be commerce. We don't discriminate based on the domains. Any college, I mean, it has to be a recognized entity, that's all. Then they can create a local chapter and they can support their learners in the process of learning online. This is something that we proudly support. We have a separate support group for the single point of contacts where we onboard them, we explain the process to them and the current number of local chapters is around 4,200. The numbers increase day by day. If your college is not at an NPTEL local chapter, this is something that you can tell your college, why don't you become an NPTEL local chapter? There is no financial commitment. It is absolute, just like learning. The support that we provide for local chapters is absolutely free and you can continue, I mean, you can be part of it and you can get the benefit of being a local chapter and supporting the learners. As you know, India is a diverse country and we have multiple languages. We are multilingual and keeping this in mind, we also have put in efforts to translate the NPTEL video content into eight regional languages. We have already around 7,650 hours of translated content. Another 6,800 is ongoing. Again, this is a very small drop in that vast ocean. We have around 44,000 hours of worth NPTEL content and we are just reaching this, I mean, almost 25 percentage through this effort. To know more about translation, please go to NPTEL.ac.in slash translation. Again, here also local chapters, professors from local chapters support us a lot in translating the content. We have also a latest addition to the translation is rather than just the PDFs, we have now compiled them into what we call as books in the respective language and these are some of the examples of translated content that we have converted into book. To know more about translation, again, the website is NPTEL.ac.in slash translation. So, I already said just the certificate is not enough, you need to score well. See, this is one benefit that we definitely try to give the toppers of the courses. So, every faculty in IIT, they may be involved in multiple projects or they may have certain activities related to the course that they need interns for and we actually first check with the faculty if they require an intern and we actually reach out to the toppers of the course to see whether they would be interested in taking up this internship offers through NPTEL. We have both summer and winter internship and till now we have approximately 80 interns who have come through the NPTEL process. This NPTEL process of internship is something that goes as in parallel with the regular institute internship. So, the IITs and ISE have a regular internship, summer and winter internship drive and that is a separate process. There is a written test and other, what do you say, qualifying methods through which participants are filtered. It's a very rigorous process. What we are saying is you do an NPTEL course seriously become a topper and then you can actually see whether you can be provided internship from our end. The internship again, please see that internship is not from what you say. We do provide stipend but that should not be the aim. The stipend will just help you to survive, make your ends meet. For a month, we are giving a stipend of 5000 rupees. This would be sufficient for you to arrange a stay, do manage your one month stay at their respective IIT. We do look for posters but because of the accommodation crunch, generally hostel accommodation may not be always possible. Now that with corona, it is even more difficult. Even our regular students are not able to come inside the campus. So, something that we will now look at is, yeah, we will have to look at alternate mechanisms for accommodation that is for sure. But yeah, the stipend would help you in mitigating the financial what do you say, the financial impact that you have for such a commitment. The important thing is the internship will add to your resume whether you're going for a job or whether you're going for a placement. So, this is a certificate of internship that you get at the end of the internship. We also have an NPTEL industry associate program. I've already told you about certain parts of it. I'll specifically say about the soft skills training in the next two slides. Please speak for it. This is something that we have started pretty new and there is a lot of, I mean, we have seen a lot of serious learners coming in and sustaining through the program. I'll talk about it in just a couple of minutes. But these are some of the other initiatives that we are part of. We are expanding conduct of proctored exams in places outside India. We are also working on a gate portal. Again, soft skills training that we are currently doing. And we are also exploring opportunities for internships and jobs with companies. We also have something called lab workshops. Typically in an online course, doing a physical lab is very difficult. So, based on the topics of a specific course, we conduct what we call as lab workshops. These are done in multiple disciplines. Currently, it is done in three different areas. And we have seen around 15 workshops being conducted in a period of 2019, 2020. We started this initiative in 2019 because of the pandemic. Currently, we are putting it on hold. And as and when there is much better relaxation on travel and echo accommodation criteria, we will resume the lab workshops. So, this is about the soft skill training. It is a free training given to NPTEL stars of topers who are ready for job interviews. We do employability assessment. We do live video sessions with them. Then we do online interactive sessions with them. And online mock interviews are also conducted. This particular session is done by qualified people. And who can attend? It is basically the NPTEL toppers or NPTEL stars. If you have already secured a job, then this might not be something that we will advise you. We will definitely say, please do not register for this. Again, students from premium institutes, IITs, NITs, triple IITs, etc., or tier one colleges who already have access to good quality training need not register for this training. Okay. See, the idea behind such initiatives is we have to reach out to those who actually need these kind of inputs. And we see a lot of college-growing students who are technically really brilliant. But they lack, they have a lack of confidence when it comes to these kind of, what do you say, soft skills, but they do have it. I mean, they speak good English, they have a command over the language, but somehow they are, maybe they are nervous, they are afraid. And these are the things that we try to overcome, we try to instill confidence through these soft skills training program. The process of training, you have to, the registration is done only, it is exclusively for NPTEL toppers. We collect your resumes and it will be there in our resume database. We will have live sessions through YouTube for soft skills, then you will have an employability assessment and a spoken English test. We will then have the online interactive session and online mock interviews. And it is done at levels, multiple levels. So the first, you need to cross the first level, only if you cross the first level, then you will be eligible for this things in the second level. So the participation at each level is important and only then you will be made eligible for the next level. So a little bit about the employability assessment. As you know, most multinational companies conduct an online assessment to screen. It's a filter criteria as part of the recruitment process. It will have questions on aptitude, reasoning and verbal ability. This will help students to understand their strengths and the areas where they need to work on. Spoken English test consists of three sessions that should be taken over phone. These tests will assess the student's speaking and listening skills with respect to the English language. So it's not just speaking. You should also be able to comprehend what the other person is saying and engage in a conversation. That is what spoken English is all about. So this will help in validating the proficiency of theirs in English language when it specifically comes to employment. So live sessions from experts. We do have YouTube live sessions on effective resume writing, how to be an effective communicator, and what do companies expect when hiring a candidate. These help you in preparing yourself for interviews and the online interactive session. It is done as something similar to a group discussion. It is a one hour duration session and all the participants, we ensure that all participants are given equal opportunity to speak. An expert or a moderator is assigned to a group of 10 students. It will be driven by a focus theme or a focus topic. Some of the topics that we have discussed are listed here in the slide. As the sessions improve, we will add more such topics into the session. More interviews, it is like, I mean, we do conduct, we do have experts who evaluate the students resume and ask relevant questions. So it will give you a sense of what to expect when you go for an actual interview and your stage fright, your nervousness, etc, can be removed by these mock sessions. And that is what we are aiming at. So over the past year, we, so as I told you, each one requires sustained participation in the previous session. So we had around 10,170 people take the employability assessment of which 1,400 attended that group discussion session, the online interactive session. And an HR mock interview, which is a one on one mock interview was done for 716 students and out of which 52 further attended the spoken English test. I'm hearing that one of the, that student landed up in a job with a pretty good package. So we, I'll show you some stats when it comes to these kinds of soft skills session. These are the reasons why people attend these sessions and mock interviews, why they attend the mock interviews that is also listed as you see to be placed as a primary goal of both people who attend the soft skill session and the mock interviews. So it is, I mean, we hope that these kinds of efforts from our side would help you in moving towards your, what do you say, the goal that you have in your mind. So we had conducted a survey with local chapters where some of these learners came in and attend, from where these learners attended our sessions. We see an overwhelming positive impact about the various activities that we conduct. So 83% say that there's an impact on employability. 94% says that there is an increase in confidence among their students and around 89% or 88% are saying that the NPTEL toppers are performing very well in campus placements and off-campus placements. So with this, I come to the end of the presentation. It is now Q&A time. So if you have questions, please feel free to ask it. The chat window is open. I'll be waiting for your questions. So I see around 35, 30 people watching the session. We had a lot of questions in the previous week about domains and other things. So if you have any confusion, please post your questions in chat. I'll be able to I'll be more than happy to answer them. So all these live sessions, it has been conducted even in the previous week. So if you look at subscribe to this channel, you can actually see the other live sessions also where I have me and my colleague Balrajou have answered many such general questions. We will be conducting the live sessions in the next week also. So if you do not have any questions as of now, you could even come during the next week's live session and ask your questions either through YouTube chat or we may float even a form for collecting your questions. So I don't see any questions coming from the participants. I'll wait for another couple more minutes. If there are no questions that are coming in the chat, we'll close this session. I hope you got an idea of what NPTEL online courses are. Again, please note, NPTEL online courses, we are not a degree providing university. We just provide certification courses and a certification course, the life cycle is a particular course. It starts in a particular duration. There is a start date, the course run, we will release content weekly. There will be online assessments that you have to do. You have to score a minimum in the online assessments and then there will be a proctored exam for which you have to register separately. So just by enrolling in the course, you will not be eligible to write the exam. There is an exam form. You will have to click on the exam form, apply through the exam form and then what you say appear for the exam. Score a minimum in both the in-person exam and in online assessments to get that certificate. As I said, the certificate is issued by the continuing education offices in the respective IIT. That means it's a valid IIT certificate that you can add to your resume, whether you are going for a job placement or whether you are aim is for higher studies. Okay, looks like any questions, the YouTube stream that you're watching, there is something called chat. You can post your question through chat. I'll be able to answer them over here. I don't see a question coming from any of the students. So let me now formally close the session. First of all, by thanking each and everyone who have joined the session, who have patiently listened over the past 45 minutes or so. I see around 30 participants regularly coming in and looking at this session. We thank you very much. If you have any queries, some email IDs that I can give you one is support at npital.itm.ac.in. This is an email ID to which you can write to. It is available in our website. Please bookmark npital.ac.in. This is our website. All the other websites that I've talked about, it is available in this main website. You can go to the individual ones from this main website and you can get the necessary information from there. So that's it from IIT Madras today. We thank you for your participation. Have a great day. Make sure you start learning on Jan 18th. The courses are live in the portal now. Thank you and have a good day.