 Good morning to all. It's a moment to introduce the SPOC of our college. I am Dr. Sister Santhya Hutriza, the SPOC of Axelium College of Arts and Science for Women. A lovely morning to NPTEL local chapter team, IIT Madras, the resource person of the day, Dr. Ship Shankardas, our principal, Dr. Sister Sabasti Jayapushpam, and all the faculty members of Axelium College of Arts and Science for Women. First and foremost, I extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to NPTEL local chapter team, IIT Madras, for selecting our college and organizing an NPTEL awareness. It's a great honor and pleasure to coordinate this program in association with NPTEL local chapter. The Axelium College of Arts and Science had its humble beginning in the year 2007 with just three students and now it has grown up to thousand and more students who are from very poor background villages. It is situated in the most remote corner of the Kudukote district in a village named Raghunathapuram. The main strength of the college rests on empowering women's education and cultural changes in the remote areas that enable girls students from less privileged village backgrounds which promotes genuine service and first generation higher education. It is a charitable educational institution, constantly providing holistic formation for women, especially from rural areas, who will be the leaders in facing the international challenges of the current scenario. The vision of the college is to empower young women through the pedagogy of Danbosco and Madras Masrulu. We follow the educating method of Danbosco and most the students through value-based education, intellectually ill-manned, spiritually enlightened, morally upright and socially committed. We are one Asia's first ever unique award known as the Boomi Campus Award for the most eco-friendly campus in the year 2022 and our college has nationally accredited to A grade in the first cycle in the year 2022. Our young girls are empowered to tap their full potential and share their expertise to a greater extent. As a result, they enjoy immense pride and satisfaction in achieving academic excellence as university rank holders. At present, we feel proud to announce that 4,500 students are graduated with 120 university rank holders in both UG and PG degrees. Hence, to give more opportunities for our students to take our students to higher version, our college has been established in Swine local chapter in the year 2023 June. The main aim of registering our institute in the Swine portal is to impact quality education to rural young girls to make students employable in the industry or pursue a suitable higher education program. I am sure that this NPTEL workshop would definitely create an awareness among the faculty members and students to enroll themselves in the forthcoming NPTEL courses. Once again, a graceful welcome to all the participants. Now I call upon the principal of the college, Dr. Sister Pushpa, to address the gathering with your inspiring message. Good morning, everyone. I am Dr. M. Sebasti J. Pushpa, principal of Axelium College of Arts and Science for Women, Ranganadipuram. I am delighted to address you today at this new learning program organized by NPTEL local chapter IAT Metras in association with the Axelium College of Arts and Science for Women. Axelium College of Arts and Science for Women was established in 2007 to 2008 with the vision to empower young people. We are committed to promoting and creating awareness among our faculty and students about social responsibilities through various extension activities, outreach programs, and training programs organized by the National Service Team, Red Ribbon Club, Youth Red Cross, Extrura Ranges, Media Club, Cultural Club, ICAF, Institution Innovation Council, and NPTEL. These initiatives instill a sense of service in our students and contribute to social transformation. The primary objective of the NPTEL venture is to provide quality education to students across the country. It allows students to enroll in courses of their interests and expand their knowledge and skills. NPTEL also aims to enhance the quality of education offered in the nation by providing curriculum-based video and web courses. Through the NPTEL platform, students can access e-learning content and explore their creativity and innovation. NPTEL has played a significant role in transforming online education and providing available and high-quality learning opportunities to students nationwide. This e-workshop offers a unique platform to explore emerging trends, enhancing ideas, and enhance our understanding of various subjects. I encourage all the participants to actively engage in this session, interact with the extreme faculty and network with fellow students. This workshop is not just about acquiring knowledge, it is about nurturing a life-long passion for learning. I am confident that NPTEL will shape the attitude and character of each participant. I want to thank the organizing committee, faculty members, and volunteers who have dedicated time to making this e-workshop a reality. Your commitment and passion for education are truly commendable. I wish all the participants a fruitful and enriching experience throughout this NPTEL e-workshop. Thank you. Thank you sister for your brief introduction about the college and the significance of the NPTEL to the participants. Now I cordially invite the resource person of the day Dr. Shiv Shankar Das to deliver his presentation on NPTEL awareness. Over to you sir. Respective Dr. Pushpa, sister Teresa, faculty members who are connected to this program through YouTube and the students. It is a very warm welcome to everyone. This NPTEL workshop being organized by IIT Madras, NPTEL team, along with in association with Auxilium College of Arts and Science for Women. Let me share my screen and as I understand from the talk given by the SPOC, this college has recently joined into the NPTEL four. So many of the activities that we carry out as part of the NPTEL initiatives are not known to many of them. So maybe I'll just take you through the complete journey right from how do you take a course rather? How do you select the course where these courses are available? What are the activities that goes on during the entire runtime of the courses as well as the different other initiatives which are part of the NPTEL? How the students after doing a course they can take benefit of other initiatives so that as Principal Ma'am was saying that okay there needs to be an arch to make them more employable also. So what are the facilities or the initiatives that help the students to be nurtured in that direction that we'll talk about that? So although the initial talk has been planned for one hour along with some component of question and answer sessions, so what we'll do we'll club together both of these and as and when the questions are posted onto the YouTube we'll just take the questions and go away. Let me just share my screen. During say one to one and a half hours of talk we'll be discussing on introduction of NPTEL as well as the Swayam. NPTEL online certification that's right from how to select the course to absolutely hands-on and how to enroll into the course, how to complete other formalities, the credit transfer mechanism, the domain certification, how to get an expertise in a particular area through NPTEL, different internship opportunities, soft skill training that helped the students to build up confidence before facing the interview panel, GATE portal that if someone is interested to write say GATE examinations, how NPTEL can help you can say through a customized portal in their initiative. The faculty development programs and other different initiatives that NPTEL has taken. Yellow with that what benefits are associated with NPTEL local chapters we'll also talk about that and another new initiative is the form of NPTEL test courses that is NPTEL plus and the time permits maybe within two or three slides we'll talk about a new initiative launched by IT Matras in the form of a off-campus IT Matras BS degree on two disciplines. Along with that there will be question answers as and when it comes into the YouTube chat box we'll take it up and go forward. So NPTEL started its journey in 2003 and we have just completed 20 years of our journey. NPTEL is an actually an acronym which is Ulwami's National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. What started with seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore with a vision to just provide quality education to the masses that is to the interested learners we started creating the contents in the form of either video courses or web courses. The video courses means the contents were recorded from the classrooms of IITs and made it available to the learner communities through different say either into or through the nptl.sc.in portal so that anyone across the globe can access it. From 2014, aligning with the global trend when online certification programs were started by different other bodies, NPTEL also started its journey in association with industry bodies as well. So from 2014 we are actually not only offering the courses but also offering the courses for course level certification that means I should be able to write the exam and get a tangible output in the form of a certificate. This has been our change of operation. So during you can say is 20 hours years of our journey we have created more than 3000 plus unique courses offering the disciplines of basic sciences, humanities social sciences, engineering and technology management and now we are also offering the courses from health sciences, law and other allied disciplines. More than 4.5 million learners have actually subscribed onto our YouTube channel that speaks how popular these NPTEL courses are and this if you just see the footprint of the subscribers they are not only limited within India but they have a global footprint. So these contents are not only accessed by our people but also accessed by learners across the globe and if you see the viewers more than 1.6 billion views have been reported in our YouTube channels which is NPTEL HRD. We have created little more than 62,000 hours of video with many people videos with English subscribers. So now not only we are offering the courses but we are also trying to reach out to the colleges that is the autonomous colleges and universities for including these courses as part of the critical transfer framework as has been approved by AICT and UCHC. Now once we say that NPTEL is a body of different IITs, IISC or centrally funded technical institutions we are offering the courses that should be a platform to offer the course and the platform is a Ministry of Education, Government of India funded program called SWAYAM which is an acronym of study rates of active learning for the young aspiring bias. So this has been created by ministry as an umbrella through which anyone who wants to offer an online course in India has to offer it through SWAYAM only. So different national coordinators have been created under SWAYAM who will be targeting a select group of learners. Say if the learners have from the school K-12 level up to 10th plus 2 level the NUS National Institute of Open Schooling and NCRT are the agencies who will be actually giving them say offering them courses from this discipline. I am having some problem with my camera, okay if it doesn't work we just carry for a while. Then for the National Open University and NITPTR they are the agencies who will be handling this. For undergraduate courses as well as postgraduate courses there are certain agencies which are common like NPTEL is primarily focusing on the engineering education although just because we have got other disciplines like basic sciences, humanities and social sciences and management departments in most of the IITs who are also offering the courses aligning from those disciplines. AICT is for because the teacher's training for particular for the engineering sector CEC and MTC are offering the courses targeting say non-engineering non-management type of courses from the UGPG level and IIM back look for the management courses. So these are the national coordinators online certification program we follow whatever courses we are offering we follow a four quadrant approach in MOOCs format that is MOOCs means messy open online courses that number of students who can enroll into the course are not limited by the capacity of a brick and mortar or clustering. You can have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of students enrolling in a particular course. These courses are open that means anyone who has got an interest should be able to access the contents and the contents are offered over internet that is its delivery mechanism is online and the courses the last word C alphabet C isn't courses that is these courses are structured almost similar fashion as that of the regular university course that means it has a set syllabus start date end date weekly for structured is that how much hours or how many hours of lectures are to be delivered what are the other activities like face to face interaction a substitute for that will be available then supplementary study materials that teacher gives in a regular classroom that will be available along with that there will be periodically assessment at the week level as well as at the end there will be a semester life type examination for certification so we follow this four quadrant approach and anyone irrespective of his or her age academic background will be able to join any of the course from anywhere and can study any type so we follow a triple A model these courses we offer during two times in a year aligning with the semester systems of universities that is either we offer the course during january to april or july to october okay so these are the two sessions when you offer the courses since all NPT courses are offered through the common swam platform our NPT courses are also recognized as swam courses i'll talk about that entity courses in the later slides enrollment when we start as this college particularly the auxerium college has recently joined for this as an NPT local chapter so in that case is essential for them to know that whatever courses we are offering from july the enrollment starts usually in may and we just we are on the verge of actually starting the course from 24th of july and if the students or faculty members who are interested to join into the course have not joined so far they should follow the next few slides where we will be discussing on how to choose the course and how to join into the course what are the activities carefully so that they'll be benefited in that respect they can enroll in any courses that interest them irrespective of their current study a student who might be doing a BA degree will be able to take any course from the data science because data science has been extremely important whether they are studying in the science arts commerce management whatever it is okay so irrespective of what they're studying they'll be able to take any course and the number of courses is not limited if i intend to join a course say on german language i should be able to do that okay they can enroll in multiple courses now enrollment takes place through swayam quota through which we offer the courses and we don't charge anything because the whole program is supported by the ministry of education okay so for learning purpose if i want to join i can join in any number of courses through swayam from the least given list and complete the course whereas if i want to get a certificate against that particular course then i have to register separately through NPTL quota for the examination and get the certificate on completion of the what's on satisfying the certification criteria now the course features if you see the course features are that we follow in terms of hours there are three formats that is some courses which are exactly you can say a semester based course is 30 hours duration a course on very selected topic is of 10 hours duration and something mean media we have got is 20 hours duration if you just talk about the delivery time at the rate of 2.5 hours of picture per week we will be competing attain our course within four weeks time it will take eight weeks time to complete a 20 hour course and within 12 weeks we'll be completing a full semester 30 hour course what are the four coordinates at that we talked about as it is followed in the regular classroom we also follow the same what four coordinate approach the only difference is that instead of the teacher standing before the students and delivering the talk in a face to face mode here the contents are recorded in a studio environment so the recorded contents are made available to the learners now these recorded contents are not of one hour duration they're usually a smaller version so that the students can download those videos and small videos and learning so these prerecorded videos becomes one of the component now once the faculty delivers the talk in a classroom either the faculty will be asking the question to the students or student may actually interrupt the teacher and post their queries so since it is an online class so here the interaction takes primarily through a web-based interactive forum that is there is a forum where the students after going through the videos if they have any doubt they'll be posting the queries in a text format which will be answered by the faculty in a time bound manner say within 24 hours we expect the answers to be given by the faculty and the teaching assistants now just to give a flavor of the live interaction there are periodically once in a month the faculty will be coming live on youtube sessions as we are handling today's session and the students who are part of this course will be joining through the youtube link and posting their queries the faculty will be taking the queries the questions from the youtube chat box and be responding in addition to that there are pmrf scholars prime ministers research fellow scholars as part of their regular activities they are supposed to take care of certain teaching roles so many of the pmrf scholars are being engaged by NPTEL to help the students in this direction what they do if there are some courses that requires a lot of problem solving skill since our courses they'll be in the faculty we're mostly talking about the theoretical aspect so just to give the students a flavor of how to solve the problems which are actually given in the assignments so we engage the pmrf scholars to help the students on the techniques they should follow in solving different problems associated with that particular course additionally the faculty will be giving additional supplementary study materials this could be in the form of text transcript that is the way faculty have delivered the talk exactly a verbatim copy of the text is available in the text format these PDF files are available for certain courses most of the courses which are on rerun that we talk little later if the faculty has used the PowerPoint slides these are made available or the faculty may also give either handwritten notes or free web resources links to free web resources this is third component the fourth component is that after going through all these steps there will be a periodically assessment on my understanding of that particular weeks content so there will be about 10 to 15 or 20 questions related to that week's video these questions are mostly multiple choice or we'll be having numerical problems where I have to solve the problem and put the numerical value there answers could be one correct option in multiple choice or there could be more than one correct option for multiple choice that we call it separately as multiple selected so each assignment will be given 10 days time for the students to solve it and submit so every Monday during the start time of the course every Monday we'll be releasing the recorded lectures supplementary study materials and one assignment the students will get time till next week Wednesday 11 59 midnight to submit the assignments every assignment with a there are 15-20 questions they will be graded out of 100 and on expiry of the assignment submission deadline they'll be able to go to the portal and see what score they have obtained out of 100 in that particular assignment during this 10 days time they are free to submit the assignment as many times as they want but only the final submission will be considered for certification purpose because in the later side we show a part of your weekly assignment performance will be taken for the final certification. Now I have gone through the four quadrants every week I have gone through the videos I have got my doubt clarified and submitted my assignments now I am interested for the certification examination certification examination registration has got a timeline you need to check the timeline and if you have decided on writing the examination you have to actually register within that timeline once you talk in the next slide the timelines this will be more clear to you the exams are although I can take the courses from the comfort of my home but for writing the examination it will be a proctored in-person center-based exam that means across the country in around 200 cities we will be conducting the examination and the students who are registering for the exam they have to physically go to the examination center and write the exam in a proctored environment okay it is an in-person exam exam can be either in online mode or offline in online mode the questions will be appearing in the computer and I have to answer also in the computer only where is in an offline mode the questions will be appearing in the computer but I will be given conventional answer script where I have to write the answers okay this will be manually evaluated whereas online examinations like most of the online assignments will be computer graded there will be three days on which exam will be conducted on each day you'll be having two sessions one in the forum and the afternoon forum session is between 2 to 5 so during these two sessions I will be able to write up to two examination part day okay if I selected air two courses in such a way that both the course has got an exam date the same exam date nothing to worry I should be able to I'll be located one exam in the forum session another exam in the afternoon session because in both the sessions we'll be having exams of the same papers on two different sets of question papers examination fee for learning purpose if I join the course I don't pay anything but as I said for certification examination since this is centrist exam we have certain expenditures and to take care of that for the swim guidelines we charge 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the course duration that is whether four weeks eight weeks or 12 weeks so fee remains same however the students who are from certain categories like sc st or persons with disability with more than 40 percent disability they are entitled to get 50 percent fee waiver in the exam registration so they will be paying only 500 rupees again submission of relevant documents in support of their claim and will be registering by paying only 500 rupees once you conduct the examination within 30 days we usually declare the results it's much ahead of time but the 30 days is the worst scenario certificates that are issued they are all e-verified sorry e-verifiable SOC copy of the certificate certificates will cure the QR code through which if a student produces the certificate before any authority they should be able to verify the authenticity of the certificate by simply scanning the QR code and seeing the same certificate copy of the same certificate in our NPTEL server the certificates are signed by the institute which is offering the course that means if the course is offered by say IIT Delhi the certificate signature is written from the IIT Delhi but it will be at the logo of NPTEL and swim certification criteria as we have said every week there will be an assignment and at the end there will be final examination so in as far as the certificate criteria is concerned both of these are taken into account for giving the final rating for non-programming courses that is the number of courses that we offer can be actually put into two major groups one is the courses which are four aligned for the computer science and engineering discipline that means having certain components of programming like C, C++, Java, Python, STL and such courses vary a lot all these courses has got a programming component other courses are not non-programming named nature in non-programming courses the final examination will be either out of 100 or 50 depending on the duration of the course in the courses of four weeks duration the final examination is out of 50 but for the eight and 12 week courses the final examination will be out of 100 and 75 percent of the score in the final examination will be taken for the certification purpose similarly whatever may be my weekly assignment score out of 100 an average score out of certain say assignments will be calculated average score and 25 percent from there will be computed for the certification purpose for the programming courses final examination will carry only 50 percent weightage and 25 percent weightage from here will be taken for the non-proper programming test that is every week in addition to the regular assignment there will be some programming tests also okay particularly for C, C++, Java, Python, vary law all these courses there will be programming tests before the examination date on a particular date there will be two exam slots given for the programming test where the learners will be able to take the programming test at the designated slots one during the day one during the night they can also take both the slots and write in both the session if they write in both the session whichever score is higher that will be taken for the certification purpose that means out of 100 whatever is the score 25 percent will be taken for the certification so for non-programming courses only two components 75 percent comes from final exam 25 percent comes from the assignment and for programming courses split into three parts 50 25 25 how do we calculate the assignment score 25 percent if the course is of 12 weeks we only consider the best eight assignments scores and taken average that is out of 800 what is the score and calculate average out of 100 and 25 percent of that directly is taken into the final certification if some students or learners have not submitted even eight assignments there could be cases in that case if they have submitted say six assignments we will consider that out of eight they have only submitted six that means the remaining two assignments they have received zero marks that is score out of 600 will be considered as score out of 800 and accordingly the assignment score will be calculated from their average assignment score now for getting the certificate one should score 40% individually in each of these components that means out of 70 75 in the final exam they should get 30 out of 25 from assignment they should get at least 10 the consolidated marks will be considered for giving the grade we follow a five point reading based on the consolidated score if the score on score is less than 40 we say the candidate has not successfully completed the case course and we don't issue even a participation certificate however if the score is between 40 to 59 we say successfully completed scores between 60 to 100 will be our allied tag on the certificate this allied tag would be marked on to the certificate whereas the score between if the score is between 75 to 89 60 to 74 only allied what will be there between 75 to 89 each addition like what there will be a gold batch printed on to the sorry silver batch silver medal symbol will be printed on to the certificate and between scores between 90 to 100 will have a gold medal symbol along with the allied tag additionally if the student's performance is very very good and if their score is within the top say 5% we also mark the student's certificates with the top that is 1% 2% and 5% that upper seal also will come along with the other other logos that we have mentioned depending on the total consolidated score this is how a sample certificate will look like here elite word means it is more than 60 gold that symbol is there that indicates the score is between 90 to 100 the student's name photograph course name assignment and final exam score how many students have actually written the exam and rather certified during that particular session which is mentioned next to that will be reflected in the certificate along with the student's roll number and keyword now important points to remember for the learners is that once you are enrolling into the course as long as you maintain we actually recognize each of the students by their email ID so if you are enrolling into a course with a particular email ID you should continue to use that same email ID as long as you are in the learning phase in NPTEL or SWAM because we will be recognizing you only with your email ID so if you are enrolling in a particular course today and saying the next semester you want to add some more courses you'll be able to carry forward all your course details along with you as long as you use the same email ID before enrolling into the course if you are looking for certification please ensure that you check the experience and as we said that during the entire runtime you should use the same hormone email ID for course enrollment as well as for exam registration there are many times we get a complaint that I am not able to register the certification but even if they registered also they'll be getting a zero marks because in the email ID that they have used for the course enrollment they have submitted all the assignments using that email ID and if the exam registration is done through a different email ID both data will not be merged together since these certificates will be produced before the prospective employer for internship or job opportunities or for getting transferred to the institute so you should always use the formal passport size photograph for certification examination registration in an exam you may have some courses particularly science-based courses or engineering based courses or even management courses you may need the need to use a calculator please note that physical calculators are not permitted in the examination hall you have to learn practicing say how to use the on-screen calculators so practice that one because in the examination hall you'll be having only access to the on-screen calculators and if your college is taking the courses for credit transfer you can always in advance write to the NPTEL that how many students will be writing the examination from your college so that logistic preparations can be taken care of by the NPTEL beforehand these are the timelines we mentioned in the earlier slides that we have for three variation of courses of four weeks eight weeks and twelve weeks the four weeks and eight week courses are split into two groups first set of four weeks first set of eight weeks and all clear week courses will start from 24th of July and the enrollment date enrollment closes by 31st of July so not much time is left if you are still waiting for enrollment please go ahead look for the course and join to the course as soon as possible because the contents of these courses will be released at least 10 to 15 days ahead of the first week contents will be released at least a fortnight ahead of the actual scheduled date okay so the second set of courses of four weeks and eight weeks duration will start exactly one month later that is by August 21st we'll be opening the courses for or starting the courses now this is the enrollment date what about the examination date examination for the first four first two set of say first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks we'll have exam on 24th of September and for the other courses we'll be having exam on 28 and 29 of October on each date there will be two sessions so there are three days maximum six courses can be taken for certification purpose in a semester exam form closes exam registration closes on 14th August for first set of exam and by 11th September exam registration will close with normal fee for 28th and 29th October exam however if you are missing that deadline then you have to pay extra penalty and with late fee you will be able to register within 18th August or 15th September for those two dates of examinations now we have seen the different features of the courses now if I want to see what are the courses that are available at this point of time for enrollment from dualization where do I go and check in a consolidated format first you may go to nptl.ac.in if I just click on to the nptl.ac.in it will take me to this course page if I just scroll down here I will find different tabs here like list of courses and timelines and guidelines under the timelines and guidelines I'll be able to see the slide what I have shown in the previous section now under list of courses I'll be giving I'll be getting a detailed you can say information about what are the courses that are available from the 24th of July or 21st of August so you can see the course ID which discipline it belongs to the course name the faculty name which institute is offering what is the duration of the course and the whether the course is new or redone new means this course is being created for the first time and is first time we are going to offer the course so the contents none of the information is available other than only the dates for the read and course means these courses were created earlier and offered a number of types in the past so some components of previous runtime data is available what are these components we'll be having access to the previous content that the videos which remains same for in Iran is available before me so before the course starts I can actually access the videos also I'll be able to access one set of weekly assignment okay so before I know actually before the course starts I'll have some idea like okay after going to the weekly structure what type of assignment questions will be asked in the examination or assignments okay every time the assignment questions will be different so although you'll be getting some idea about about weekly assignments from the course page but the new assignment new set of assignments will not have any question from there they'll be different type but some idea you can get on the toughness level of the assignment question it will have start date end date information examination date enrollment date exam registration end date then the level of the course which is for undergraduate level or postgraduate level whether the course is core type core courses or elective courses and we'll talk little later about the faculty development program some of the courses are recognized as for faculty development program and we have for certain domains we'll talk more on this about about the domains little later and if any of the courses are relevant for the particular domain then that is also information is provided in this along with that you have got link where from we can go to the course join page all this information you get from here as well as you can also get it from here that is nptl semester information archive dot nptl dot c dot in slash nptl slash nptl semester dot html so say from july i am getting the course list and timelines if i want to see what are the forthcoming courses in the next semester i should be able to check it from here if i click onto the january 2024 list i can see how the courses will be offered in which timeline for the in the january 2024 that i can see it here i can also see the type of courses that are forthcoming say some of the rerun courses some of the new new courses are already been listed that this will be offered from the january 2024 so you have some idea on forthcoming course list and the timelines and you can take a decision accordingly now we have got all the information here now we have taken a decision okay let's start with a rerun course so if it is a rerun course what all information is available in the portal say we are taking a course on say python course python programming course so i say this is the joy of computing using python this is the course page where i will be getting lot of information all what all things we say under download section you'll be able to see see the videos are available here assignments one set of assignment is provided here so before taking this course once it is starting from july or august you can have a look at the previous say semester when it was offered one set of assignment then we said that we are also offering the text transcript of the video lectures as a supplementary study materials now these text transcripts are available not only in English language but they are also available in different regional languages particularly the students who might have studied in their local language up to 12th standard if they find it difficult to follow the lectures then for certain courses we have created the text transcript into different regional languages okay so they can download the contents from here additionally they can also download the whole content in different other languages also like say i want to download the say in tamil the whole book what this particular course offers i can download it from here so this all information is available along with that under the statistics section you'll be able to see how many times this course was offered and during each time what was the statistics how many people enrolled how many people registered for the exam what was the past percentage and how the individual candidates performed in the examination this give this will give you some idea like what type of course so that this is very tough course depending on the past percentage it will be able to say infer whether the course is suitable for your candidates or not and if you just look at the videos you'll be able to see whether the background of the students who are targeting this course will match with the requirement of this particular course okay then if the students particularly who are doing very well you'll give you'll be giving the details of those students who are top are in this course in the previous rounds whether they are students what is the revelation all this data is available here so you get all the details from here then it's time for enrollment in the course how do you enroll where do you go first in the reader this particular list i have shown in the course page you have got a link where from you can join if you don't follow that else also you can just click on to the swam.gov.in which is the main platform through which these courses are offered where do you go go to swam.course.in then you can click on to the all courses this is the tab all the courses click on to the all courses tab then it's taking a little time here the complete course list which is available at this point of time will be shown here whether the course is coming from NPTEL, CSC, UGC all courses are listed now if i am looking for NPTEL course i'll put a filter here from national coordinator then all NPTEL courses are reflected here i can select the courses based on the discipline say if i am looking for humanities and arts courses then i can select say body language key to professional if i want to enroll into the particular course if i know the course name i can directly search the course name from here otherwise i can select it we go here body language key to professional something this course is by IT Ruki faculty it's from NPTEL is a four-week course enrollment ends on 21st of august starting on the same day exam date is on 28th of October all these informations are available in the course card now if i am looking for enrolling into the course i just click on to this particular course card it will take me to the next level where i'll be seeing that okay how many students have enrolled into the course at this point of time what all information is there there is a small video where the faculty has said what she is going to teach as part of the course or what is the learning outcome of the course okay then about the course in text format who are the interested learners if there is any pre-requisite course layout what all things that it is a syllabus basically then additional reading what are the books and references instructor biography course certificate all these details are provided now if i am satisfied with this i can click on to the join button and it will take me to the course enrollment page okay what all options available before me i can choose my google account if i have a gmail account it's easy to carry forward with that just click on to the gmail as the google it will take me to the course enrollment page it will ask for my email id if i select my email id from using that email id it will take me to the course enrollment page now where i will be putting all relevant data that are required for enrolling into any of the swam courses okay so i will be seeing that it takes certain basic data directly from my email account that is my name my email i phone number email id then i have to select certain data like it has collected my name my email id phone number then which age group i belong to i have to select from the drop down it starts from 13 and goes up to 100 i can select my gender country i am deciding pin code based on the pin code itself it will select which state i am belonging to then which city it will also indicate then under the profession i have to select whether out there are four options if you just see from the drop down student faculty employed another the student and faculties are definitely connected with a academic institution so in this case they have to select here like okay if i select student what is my highest qualification i can select from here either it's a pre-university high school diploma whichever my eyes this one is there i can select that what is my year of graduation if i am the 12th standard and i will be graduating say four years down the line i can select my year of graduation from here so up to 2030 whatever year is required i can select from here then academic bank updates that means if i'm taking the courses from multiple national coordinators in NPT in swam then this is something like a common idea through which all the course data information will be connected that you have to create it here otherwise as far as the NPTEL is concerned you really do not need academic bank upgrade because we'll be monitoring your uh what all activities you are doing in NPTEL through your personal or your registered email ID then if you are a student or faculty since the particular college is a local chapter we can select from here are you part of the swam local chapter you can select yes from the drop down here yes or no you can select yes then local chapter state you can select from here say Tamil Nadu select here then choose a college if i can select from here say auxilium auxilium college of arts and science for women i can select here then college roll number i have to put here degree that i am pursuing whether it's a BA become BSC whatever it is then department that i belong to we have put certain basic departments not all departments which are available across the country are there so whichever department that closely resembles to your current mode of studies current branch of studies you can select that particular department and study here whether you are a first year second year whichever year it belongs you belong to then put these two checkboxes on i you agree to the swam terms of service and agree to the follow the on our code then join click on to the join button it will take you directly to the course page okay now i have completed the enrollment and now it is telling thank you for registering for the course click the announcement tab for important information okay here what is there that this translated content of this course is available in indiginal languages if you want to get further details you can get it here now you find there are few tabs on the top and few tabs on your left hand side here you'll find since this course will be starting from 21st of august so here under this course outline section there will be week zero week one week two week three week four if under every week you'll be having the videos related to that we say four or five or six videos all those videos will be available here for you to just open and study okay now along with that you'll be having supplementary study materials the text transcripts link as well as you'll be getting one assignment if you click on to the assignment here it will the assignment will open onto the screen here and you'll be able to see if it is a multiple choice question you'll be able to see the questions and radio buttons and select the appropriate button available button available before you okay additionally once you submit the assignment solution or you go through the video then you have some doubts where do you ask the questions you put a click on to this particular tab ask equation it will take you to the forum the web best interaction here you'll be posting your queries like you all here groups who are part of this program they will be posting their queries related to that so you can also see what others are asking what type of answers are coming if you know the answer you are also permitted to actually respond here with the proper answer if there is a mistake in your answer the faculty will be moderating in and correcting the uh say error okay this is how the interaction takes place through the forum then comes once we submit the assignment after 10 days time I will be able to see the progress that is out of 100 what is my score from this point under the progress tab it will be shown week one week two week three week four and the total score out of 100 will be shown here I'll be able to see okay then comes your mentor what is the mentor in certain colleges wherever they are concerned that the students are taking these courses for credits and there should be some sort of a mentoring facility from the faculty which is encouraged by npt in that case some faculty member will be designated to help the students as a first level of escalation point the faculty will join into the course like a student but only thing they'll mention that they are a faculty under the drop-down menu they'll be selecting a faculty and they'll be selecting their college like a student also okay now once the faculty joins in this course then the spoc in this case uh spsm m of this particular college she will be going on to the course dashboard and not course dashboard the spoc dashboard and from there should be able to see who are the students who are who have enrolled into the course the course names will be written here completely and under this course name they'll be able to see who are the people who have enrolled into the particular course against that particular faculty there will be some check boxes for mentor in that case the faculty will put a tick there so that this faculty is approved to be a mentor for this particular course and once the spoc approves that faculty as a mentor name of that faculty will be reflected in the course page of the students of that particular course so from here they will be selecting or they will be approving the mentorship of this faculty for their courses once they become mentor then the performance of the students in this particular course on a weekly basis will be available to the student and if the faculty is available to the faculties and if the faculty feels that okay the students are not doing well in the course in assignments assignments course are not up to the mark in that case they can intervene and possibly help the student that is what uh what you what is available in the course enrollment page so we have just shown you how to enroll into the course and what are the other activities that you are supposed to do during the runtime of the course through soym.gov.in portal now if you have decided okay you have already you have decided that we will be writing the exam then the exam registration is not done through soym portal it is done through a different portal called examform.mptl.sc.in all learners who are enrolling into the course they will be periodically being alerted and links will be provided they click onto the link we take to a different way portal through which they will be selecting which cities they are going to write the course that they want to write exam for and pay the exam fee from here this is the portal through which they will be writing or they will be registering for the examination okay we are not getting any queries from the learners who are connected either uh um you understand the whole thing or um maybe i am not in a position to answer to your queries or uh you are not following my lectures so you may just respond if you follow the contents that we are uh say discussing about whether you understood like where to see the course content or which all courses are forthcoming how to enroll into the course what are the activities that you are supposed to do what are the different types of courses if you have understood you can respond with that so that i know okay there is some feedback mechanism now we have just looked at the nptl online courses how they work now here we will just look at the some of the certification there is a characteristic statistics we have created about 3000 courses now these 3000 plus courses are unique courses but we are offering many of these courses on a rerun that is time and again we are offering the courses in a rerun so so far we have offered about 5372 courses in the soil platform for certification for which we had 2.3 plus enrollment and more than 28.5 lakhs learners came up for writing the examination out of which around 19 lakh students have actually received the certification so there could be some fear in the minds of the students that these courses are coming from uh uh coming from state you can say ii it is and is it uh you can say are they very tough whether i will i be able to uh resolve or i will be able to solve the problems on get a certificate these numbers will show you that okay see these courses are taken by students faculty members and the industry professionals then that means you can do it very well these numbers will give you a lot of confidence on that uh someone is asking whether the seminar is related to spocs or the student said this is not specifically about the spoc this is for all learners it's an awareness program about the NPTEL program so uh spoc is related information yes spoc what all information that they require first they'll be requiring what all courses are forthcoming either in july or maybe in january those information i have shown the links from where they'll be able to see then they bring this information to the notice of the college authorities so that these are actually communicated to the learners maybe the academy council will take a decision and encourage a certain group of learners to take certain courses once they join into the course maybe the students will be required to inform the students uh the faculty of the spc will be required to sensitize the students like how do they enroll into the course i have gone through the complete enrollment process how they will go if it is a new course nothing is available at this point of time but if it is a rerun course what all data is available in the hotel what all transcripts are available videos are available so they will be able to guide the students who are taking for the first time or maybe a rerun course anytime later on the steps they should do before the course is live okay then once they join into the course the next comes from where they will be able to see the data of how many students have enrolled into the course for that they obviously have to log in using keys or heart credentials into the swam portal and get the complete details on how many students have enrolled from their college in the course if there is a faculty whether the faculty should be allowed it as a mentorship or not and how the mentorship is approved that also we have discussed and where the if the faculty is actually spc is approving the faculty as a mentor where he's or the hard name will be reflected in the course page and what all things they will be doing all these things we have discussed in brief okay so this is equally beneficial for the spc as well as definitely the learners else is the lc part sir will be talking in detail later we have got some component there next during this 2014 to 2023 we have offered say on a yearly basis twice we have offered the courses and if you see what started in 2014 with three courses and about one lakh plus enrollment and about 3000 people registering for the exam during the last year that is 2022 in two semesters we offered 1213 courses with enrollment number touching 40 plus lakh students going into the course and about 7.58 lakh students registering for the examination this number was further hyped in the last semester that is during January to April 2023 we offered 665 courses with more than 24 lakhs enrollment and 5.16 that plus exam registration this semester we are offering 690 plus courses which are open for enrollment so if you are not enrolled into the course you will find courses from different taste requirement you will definitely find some courses that will be of interest to you whether it is security music of french course language course like your japanese language or soft skill course or english language course or any branch of engineering humanity social science management law basic help all these courses are available and you will definitely find some or other course that may be of interest to you so we are not only offering the courses which are very popular because this program is supported by the ministry so irrespective of whether these courses belongs to undergraduate postgraduate or these are very dedicated courses which are primarily focused for or may be useful for the high end researchers even we are offering these courses irrespective of whether this course will attract 100 students or hundreds of thousands of students so this is the spread of our courses that we talked about you can see where the number of courses that we offer from the core branches of engineering where is a mechanical civil computer science electrical is at par with the number of courses that comes from humanity social sciences and management also you'll be finding there are some courses of multidisciplinary nature as well as from physics chemistry mathematics uh even psychology economics english language the many courses are being offered irrespective of whether this course will draw one hour of students or less the exam registration whatever that that comes now if we just see the exam attendance how many people after registering in the exam actually turn up for the exam on the exam day we find this number is very high compared to any other examination almost 90 plus people actually turn up for our examination there's a consistently that goes around that number and if you see past percentage it is to be 80 to 90 percent earlier but later on concealing that there is a trend maybe that students are doing very well in assignment stage but once a similar question is asked in the final exam they are not doing very well that indicates everything is not fine at the end of your assignment stage they may not be doing it themselves they are taking support of their peer groups for someone else maybe helping them in the assignment stage now we have changed the strategy saying that you have to individually score 40 percent in the assignment and the final exam and due to which you find around 70 percent is the past percentage that is also quite good if we see the gender bias yes 40 percent of the learners in our portal are definitely women and 60 percent come comes from the male category and this number says that okay this regard students who cannot actually come for many other courses they can actually take these courses from the comfort of their home or from wherever they are why do they take the courses we have been asking these questions to the learners and the feedback that comes to our mind and really matches with the data like if you consider that after say three or four years of their studies graduate studies what are the options before them some of them will definitely look for say higher studies some people may look for job or some people may start their own business entities so whether they are looking for the job or for the higher studies going for the higher studies both of these will require a strong foundation of core courses okay they should have a solid foundation on this in addition to what they learn in their college from their respective faculty members they can also use the NPTEL courses which are coming from IITs or reputed institutions and focusing on the fundamentals they can use these contents not only for the graduate transfer but also as a supplementary study materials as they go for the library requirements books they can take these courses so many of the students are taking these courses not only for credits as approved by their institution but also taking these courses to update themselves with the knowledge in this field or for getting a job or internship some people are taking this for better preparation for the competitive exam or learning newer things for the research purposes the faculty members who join almost 20 percent of the enrolled candidates or the exam registered candidates or faculty members they take these courses for various reasons maybe they want to brush up their knowledge or they want to say we'll be teaching some courses in a later semester and they can get some contents from here to prepare better which are the courses that we offer say 600 700 courses every semester now now if you just look at that say 20 courses that has got high involvement and registration the list is before you definitely these are aligned with the current job train which are the areas where you have got more jobs maybe you have got more enrollment and exam registration that also you will find a lot of courses are taken by the students on soft skill and developing personality so in addition to the artificial intelligence machine data science different languages internet of things which are is a known by every these terminologies are known by everyone irrespective whether they come from art science or commerce background so these courses are quite popular and you can see the number of enrollments and registrations the major challenge before you is that okay you are registering for the exam the number of exam registration in a city might be exceeding than the total capacity of say computer notes that are available for conducting an online exam so talk 20 cities the list is before you you can see say say if 50 000 people are to be accommodated in the exam center on three days six sessions you may not have eight to ten thousand seats in a city like Chennai so that becomes a problem so that is the reason we say that the main challenge before us is that finding suitable examination centers for the learners so that they don't have to move far off from their place of residence for this what you can do if your students are taking the courses for certification you can allow that team beforehand okay so that we take note of this and maybe talk to our exam partner and arrange for more seats as we said the prime minister research fellow scholars are engaged in problem solving session so these sessions are conducted on a week on a weekly basis few days the dates are published beforehand and during this there will be live session that means they will be connecting and interacting with the students of that particular course on solving different problems or if there is any doubt related to the course the PMRF scholars will be there to support in your learning job initiative okay you can see we are adding more and more courses for PMRF support these sessions while they are conducted live with the learners connected these courses are also or these sessions are also recorded and the recordings are made available to the learners okay so that they can if they cannot say join in a live session they should be able to see the recorded version also and the feedback that we received from the learners who have attended these sessions are extremely good they say many of the concepts which they could not get clarified through the faculty particularly their problems are been because in a classroom or in the course the faculty will be discussing more on the theoretical aspects during the lecture whereas the problems will be part of the assignment and they may not get you can say adequate exposure or solve the particular problem this PMRF sessions are extremely beneficial in that respect then the different initiatives or different recognitions that are available for the NPTEL learners as we said that okay if they are looking for a job then they need to actually develop certain expertise in a particular area and we find that many of the students take the courses maybe they have done 10 courses but they have not done the main courses aligned in a particular direction so just to give a directive path what we have done we have created a domain concept that means if you are they want to if you want to develop your expertise in a particular area in that case which are the courses that you should do we'll talk more on this in the next slide along with that depending on how many students the the students to what extent they are connected to NPTEL we have actually categories the student learners as NPTEL starts in different categories like superstars, evangelists, motivated learners, enthusiast, discipline stars and believers if a student enrolls in say four to six courses in a semester maximum permissible exam registration or exam writing can be done for six courses on three days so if a candidate have a learner enrolls in either four five or six courses in a particular semester and is tougher in at least three exams we call the student as NPTEL superstar if in a four-year timeline or eight semester if they have enrolled in actually registered for 18 examination and passed in at least two-third of the courses appeared we call it evangelist now here the motivated learners are those in four four semesters if they have at least appeared for eight examination and say at least one exam in each semester they appear we call it motivated learners enthusiast, discipline stars, believers are based on their association whether it is a continuous association or they are doing periodically number of courses and the performance in the courses we say enthusiast, discipline stars or believers we'll talk more about the domain scholars so this is targeted to give a deeper understanding or solid foundation on a particular area in this we have created about 51 domains from 12 disciplines it has got a set of courses and set of elective course each domain has got now the core courses and elective courses are to be completed within a period of three years from the start date okay if you can complete within three years all the courses which is six to seven courses or eight courses if you can complete it within three years with an average score of 60 percent individual score not falling below 50 then you get a domain scholar certificate we can see what is the domain scholar we'll just take you to the say domain scholar page here you'll be getting browse your domains the conditions that we talked about it will be details is already listed here you can just see it here otherwise you can browse different domains since the college oxydium college is from the art science group let me check something which may be of interest to them humanities and social science if someone is interested to a domain on psychology you need to have at least minimum 50 weeks of learning there are three core courses out of these three core courses out of these courses you have to complete three courses and the course which is available for enrollment at this point of time is listed here that end goal now you can just click here and directly go to the enrollment page you have got four elective courses that you have to complete as part of the psychology domain certification which are the four courses these are the listed ones some of these are already available for enrollment similarly you'll be able to see which are the other domain that are available from different other disciplines like mathematics metallurgy mining and so you can explore and if you have completed a domain certification you can also see your name should be appearing here like your name which discipline you have completed the domain your affiliation okay all this data for asm in a semester whoever is completing the domain their details should be available in the portal okay this is all about domain certification this is the sample domain certificate that is it will be your photograph name which domain you have completed which are the courses you have completed as part of the domain and the performance in the course the qr code all these details are available here it's not that the students or the learners they do only one domain there are many people like 571 scholars have completed one domain and 32 have completed two domains there are four people who have completed three domains another initiative is a very new initiative we have not even started that one in principle decision has been taken that if you are a NPTEL study in any of the categories then you will be permitted to write or attend a class along with item address students in or in campus model that means stars can join for a course and sit along with item address students and take the course and write the certification exam that is also possible now we'll be giving out the details about these through the spocs through the different communication channels that we have most popular courses among the industries are listed here definitely they are aligned with the current industrial trend that is AI machine learning data science and all these areas other initiatives that are we are associated with that we know that UGC has already approved that 40% credits can be taken from the swam courses and AICT for the engineering colleges as a book 20% credit transfer through swam courses additionally they have also said that if the students are taking additional 20 credits they can earn a btech honors degree or a minor degree from other discipline now what is the credit transfer NPTEL is offering the courses now the college or the academic council of the autonomous institution or the university has to take a decision on the credit transfer framework approved by the UGC and AICT they will have to look at the course approve the particular course and confirm on the credit equivalency NPTEL recognizes or approves that okay a 30 hour course is equivalent to three credit 20 hours is equivalent to two credit and one credit is assigned to 10 hour courses however the swam guideline says or UGC or AICT guideline says that the colleges are free to improve or increase the credit equivalency depending on their decision is a prerogative of the academic council so most of the university that has actually approved the credit transfer for our 12 week courses they have modified it to four credit instead of the recommended credit by NPTEL as three but it is the decision of the university or autonomous college academic council so our recommendation is that try to avoid credit transfer mechanism for the first semester students and the final year students first semester students should be given some time to settle in the college atmosphere and the final student year student should be avoided because in case the final semester student do not clear the examination then this could put their career into your party that means they have a scheduled timeline for getting a job or maybe means they will not be getting the certificate final degree certificate that may be delayed since NPTEL will not be conducting any supplementary exam for the failed candidates okay so that is what our recommendation is that and we say that the new students should be given MOOCs exposure from second semester it may start with say something like the English language course or soft skill course so that is a four weeks a ratio solution and they understand the MOOC concept and it's not very much inconvenience for them then from third semester onwards you can actually expose them on the skill best courses that is our choice we say that if your college is encouraging the students to take the NPTEL courses you may take note of the exam dates you can support them through the winter as well as take note of the exam date and do not put any academic or other activities of the college on that particular date so that the students miss that examination so if you are encouraging kindly allow the students to join for the examination also by keeping that date free from any other activities we have already tied up with AI sitting all in the council for technical execution so that some of these courses which are approved as faculty development program which are required for your faculty members from the engineering colleges for that career advancement scheme so in the course page you will find that it is written along with the course summary section there will be last what will be written this is an AICT approved FTP course okay this but primarily the elective courses at the UG level and most of the you can say advanced level courses are marked as FTP courses for this the faculty it's not that the courses marked as FTP so only the faculties are permitted to take the course anyone can take the course but only the faculties have got the option to get a FTP certificate on completion of the course if they enroll into the course by marking them as faculty and after the get the certificate they apply separately for the FTP certification by registering by paying a fee of 100 rupees the equivalency has been treated as four weeks course is equivalent as half FTP of one week eight week courses full FTP of one week and you can say 12 week is one and a half FTP in the January semester we offered 665 courses out of that 561 where FTP course similarly many of the courses of this semester are also FTP courses someone is asking that tell me more about the DC part uh ideally could not follow what you mean by DC part if you can just say little more about what you wanted to say about the DC that would be useful this is a sample FTP certificate just before you it will be jointly signed by the NPTEL coordinator and representative from AICT the faculty participation you can see how many faculties are enrolled in a semester basis and it's about 18 to 20 percent is the faculty registration in the final examination then SPOCs we understand that we don't pay any compensation to the SPOCs because they are the torch bearer of this program in the academic institution they take a lot of pain to take the inputs from the NPTEL and say maybe talk to the administrators maybe talk to the students motivate them this is they put a lot of efforts they're the brand members of NPTEL so just to help them what do we do if any of their say papers are accepted for publication or presentation in a conference to be conducting IITs or IIC or maybe NITs there are some listed institutions and if the faculty wants to attain that in that case we provide a financial support to the extent of 25,000 to reimburse the cost of say registration the travel expenses and accommodation related expenses up to a limit of 25,000 is paid to the SPOCs if they attend a conference in the designated institutions every month first 10 days we keep the portal open for the applications to be received after scrutiny if they fulfill we give the approval and on completion of the program they can actually submit the documents for reimbursement of the expenditures however if the faculty is not part of they say any other faculty who is actually taking a lot of interest in the NPTEL and he is likely to say join for a conference in any of the IITs or NITs then in lieu of SPOC faculty other faculty can also take benefit of this initiative. Now for the gate examination what we do for the gate examination we have created a portal or gate.nptl.sc.in in this we know before any competitive exam they first will be just brushing up their fundamentals they should want they would like to see that okay the foundations of the core courses are solid they know how to solve the problems and since NPTEL courses are actually recorded by many of the faculty members who have been actually part of the gate exercise also say they know what is the extent of knowledge that they require to gain before appearing for the gate examination so these courses which are on the core courses can be taken by the students to have a deeper understanding of the particular concept for this it's not that they have to go to the NPTEL portal search for 3000 courses what we have done we have done is syllabus mapping if someone is doing a planning to write a gate examination from a particular discipline go to that discipline select which course you are looking for or which topics you are looking for then we have done a syllabus mapping where we have linked the videos that are related to that particular safe copy so that is syllabus mapping so after they get their foundation solid they will be like they'd like to see or they'd like to solve many of the previous semester or previous year questions so we have also provided in this portal video solutions of previous question papers so they can actually refer to that and understand if they do cannot follow that if they can't solve the problem they can at least take the guidance from there additionally before any exam people are interested to check their preparation level through mock test the gate portal also provides that facility that is the students can come and write for three hours a mock test and get a score that is just to check their preparation level additionally the PMRF scholars like they are supporting other initiatives in the courses they are also they are available for providing live mentoring sessions okay so we have created gate syllabus mapping for 10 disciplines the discipline ideas are provided here if you just go to the guest gate portal we can see how this is gate.mptl.sc.in here you will find gate syllabus mapping is primarily created say mathematics which topic you are looking for say say numerical analysis I'm looking for I am looking for say LU decomposition then which is that lecture video in nptl that talks about it you have got a link for this similarly if you want to see video solutions you can also look for that say chemistry if I want to see the video video solution I can check on the basis of topic say organometallics I can see different questions and the video solution in this okay similarly if I want to take gate practice test I can go use this particular tab and take the gate practice test as well as join for the live mentoring session so these are extremely beneficial so the students if you are planning to write the gate exam we encourage you to just explore this particular portal and maybe if you feel that there are certain things that needs to be done to improve on the performance will be definitely willing to take your inputs and work on that then nptl class is a paid e-learning portal of nptl now nptl courses we are saying that we are offering certain courses which are more on curriculum based one may be from the emerging areas but the offering time is limited to either january or july we don't offer always there are select timelines which we maintain but if you are say if you are in industry and you want to get the knowledge within a defined time as per year convenience nptl is not the platform there because we follow a regular schedule whereas here it's a e-learning portal which gives you the accessibility of the contents and write the certification exam act per your choice that means you can join into any of the course whenever you time whenever you feel like say in mem in the month of may you want to join a course and you want to complete a 12 week course within say 15 days time you are permitted to that so all the features what is available in the nptl portal they are also available here in nptl class but only thing just because you have been given the flexibility there are certain differences are there like here assignments go in nptl you are supposed to get up to 40% is enough to uh to say get a certification but here the assignment you should get 50 marks at least and you can actually write the exam act per your convenience every week we conduct the examination in a remote proctored manner okay but for say viewing the contents or writing the exam fees are charged in nptl you don't pay anything to access the contents so open online whereas in nptl class since we give you that flexibility certain amount of uh say amount is charged for accessing the contents and for writing the examination and these contents are not only nptl courses they are on say something skill-based courses maybe workshops or which are of say few hours to maybe few months all these things are available and these are not only recorded content there could be in addition to the self-paced nptl courses that you can do it you can be having some live and blended courses short-term long-term training programs all these things are available here you can actually visit elan.nptl.sc.in and see what all things are available under this program here you'll be finding that okay which are the courses which are available here okay say if you see nptl courses which all nptl courses are available here similarly iit workshops ongoing workshops which are currently like here getting job ready during college years which may be very useful for the students who are in the undergraduate programs proposed graduate program this program is starting from fifth of august this is by industry professionals so last state of enrollment is first of august such interesting courses can be taken from the nptl class platform and it's not very expensive it's a 500 rupees okay so nptl class gives you that flexibility to take courses from diversity now there is an option for the topers who are doing very well in a particular course to join for an internship opportunity in iit so if you have taken a course say x from a particular faculty from a institute and if you are topper in that course you can you are eligible to do an internship spanning over a period of four to twelve weeks under the same faculty at that institute what you have to do if you are a topper we'll connect with the faculty to explore whether the faculty will be willing to offer the internship to the topers if we get a concept we'll be writing back to the topper saying that the faculty is interested to offer the internship of this duration if you are willing send your ratio statement of purpose and your last two semester grade course based on this the faculty may conduct an interview or based on the document that you have submitted the faculty will take some candidates for the internship this internship students will be moving to that particular institute say the faculty is from iit madras the student will come to iit madras work in the laboratory of that particular faculty get a hands-on exposure on many of the things which are not available in the parent institution and also get connected with the PR groups the researchers they can have a very good interaction with the new things and they know okay what all things new developments are going on in this particular area okay so we are actually offering these courses this semester about 200 plus students are doing internship at this point of time if you want to get further details about that you can refer to nptl.ac.in slash internship here complete details is available what is given and giving the internship period just to take care of your logic boarding expenses a part of the expense is reimbursed to you in the form of a stipend that is for two weeks it is 2500 four weeks 5000 six weeks 7500 eight weeks 10 000 12 weeks it is 15 000 this is reimbursed at the end of the program once you submit the internship report okay we can get further details from here ti internship takes us instruments one of the leading agency of analog ic design integrated circuit design they are offering certain internship to our students if they complete certain courses what are the courses they have to do you can go to that particular page nptl.ac.in slash ti here you'll be finding if they do basic electrical circuits or basic electrical circuits by these two any of these or analog circuits or this course so if they do a set of courses two or three courses they are eligible to be called for Texas instruments okay if these courses are to be completed within certain say within fourth semester six semester two courses if they complete within say fourth semester and an additional course any one course from this particular group they are eligible for the ti internship they will be exposed to a interview by the ti representative and if you qualify in the interview they'll be given internship at the Texas instruments okay then we understand that okay students of art is okay they're learning in the say college or university and the knowledge of that particular domain is not adequate to crack a job they really need to know how to prepare a resume maybe how to start jobs using different social medias they're improve on their writing and communication skill then they should improve on their body language they should know what are the shortcomings how what are the common questions that are asked in the HR interview how to respond to that all these things many of the colleges do not have the facility to impart on okay so to take care of the holistic development of the student so that they're better equipped to face the interview along with the courses we also impart training on the soft skip we are offering soft skill courses additionally we are also providing soft skill training which are of two weeks maximum two weeks there are two variations either one week or two weeks duration during this phase they will be having employability assessment case their English language test online interactive sessions will be there with the trainers so that they know what are the shortcomings and how do they improve on that online mock interviews will be conducted so these are two weeks maximum duration and we are imparting so if any of the students are taking the NPTEL courses and if the global chapter can say okay we are from there to there through cities primarily we are targeting that group because they do not have many facilities at their places so if your college meets that criteria and if you are interested to organize soft skill training for your students you can write back to us to the support of local chapter group to take care of this the impact of soft skill training has been extremely beneficial for the students which has been reported by the student through different feedback channels we are also in touch with the industries as their industry we call it in NPTEL industry associate where the students are rather in fact a industry experts will be coming and chipping in their inputs in say post-structure they will be offering for offering the courses because we understand many of the courses are taken by the industry professional so they can actually help us in shaping our courses also they will be giving say industry flavor talking to the students on what is expected in the industry how to prepare better leadership talks they will be giving that inputs also and most importantly they will be giving say they will be conducting the different life session additionally they also support through their CSR funding corporate social responsibility funding through these whatever funding we get from the certain companies and individuals we utilize these for the benefit of the learners who are say economy coming from the economically weaker section and cannot afford to pay thousand rupees free so if any of your students is in that category in that case college can actually check their financial status and recommend their names for fee waiver in that case if we have the fund and if the candidates credentials are approved in that case the student will be writing the exam or registering for the exam by paying thousand rupees free but at the end of the program once they successfully complete the course the 50 percent of the fee waiver will be refunded to the candidate so far more than 1.4 lakh students from TR2TR3 cities have received exam fee waiver support which has been extremely beneficial for that additionally we might have seen in one of the course page read on course page we have shown you that okay these contents are available in different languages translated version so these jobs we definitely need the support of faculty members who are in different local chapter colleges if you have got solid understanding of a particular course and also have got good foundation of your local language in that case you can really help us in these translation activities you can actually write to us and help us in translating the English text into different regional languages the only requirement is that your understanding of your local language and that particular subject okay is a paid service we pay a token only on to the concerned faculty members for the initiative and these are the languages that we look for as some is Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Bhati Burya Punjabi Tamil and Telugu these are the languages currently we are working on we are what all activities we are doing we are actually posting all these activities to our social media handles LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Twitter and definitely you do you can refer to our channel subscribe to our channel and get updates on that also the students who are benefited out of that they share their videos through this maybe something like a review process you can also learn how the students are benefited from different courses we also recognize the efforts of the NPTEL stars and give them a token memory in the form of t-shirts that will periodically transfer to the candidates which you can proudly show it to the outside world we also conduct laboratory workshops where usually of a one institution even with the faculties will be conducting a workshop at different institutions and you can say the is a seven days program a six days program given which the students will be going to that institution in group of 30 40 students and they will be say attending laboratory sessions whose experiments are day okay and at the end of the week they become they will be actually exposed to an examination once they complete all the experiments during the first five days and complete the examination they will be given a certificate for this NPTEL will be charging a few of these 200 from the candidates and the candidates will be we'll have to be at the cost of the recommendation and food at the institution where they are undergoing the laboratory workshops okay the local chapters one was asking to become a local chapter you can we can say you possibly go here here if you want to become a local chapter this click onto that first you go to nptl.ac.in slash local chapter then you can just see that there are few forms provided here just click here it will guide you what all documents you have to provide to become a local chapter you really don't need to have a physical infrastructure only the interest and a letter from the head of the institution is what is required once we get the letter from you in the designated format say if you want to join a local chapter click here it will give you the format and if you fill up I'll just show you the page here what all things the request letter format is given all these things once you fill up the data then we our team will verify the contents and approve it and then there will be a local chapter page for you if it is a existing local chapter in that case you'll be able to see say nptl local chapter we can see here say each college say if this is a we are searching say if you just look for oxylium oxylium college of maths and science they have a local chapter page where what all details are there the spoc details is there since they have not yet started enrolling into the course otherwise during each run how many students enrolled in the course rather than not enrolled in the examination all this data will be available here so this is the core space to which they'll be getting complete details about the local chapter okay now here what is information this is the important information is like we have started two new initiatives like here you can see the certification courses offered by the industry one is ncs what is says that nptl top parts of any of the following courses can evade free tag condition badges they can actually take certain courses from ncs which is what rupees 12,000 rupees free of cost okay additionally microsoft is providing a future ready talent program for the students you can also see go through this and if you are interested to join any of this program make use of these benefit use of this make use of this facility which has been created in association with the microsoft so we have got local chapters spread across the country it's more than 5500 local chapters we are working with currently additionally we have got about 50 local chapters which has spread outside the country okay based on the performance of the students from the local chapter the local chapters are rated top 100 local chapters are recommended for say you can say felicitations at different institutes where we conduct the journal workshops after the results are declared top 100 top 10 local chapters are rated as triple A then next 40 are double A and the remaining 50 are single A so the local chapters of these top 100 colleges are actually invited to attain the exclusive workshops at fourth journal workshop that we conduct in IT Madras, IT Kanpur, IT Bombay and IT Kharagpur and they attain the felicitation workshop where they are provided with a mem do local chapter participation has been phenomenal more than 80 to 90 percent enrollment and the exam registration comes primarily from the local chapters and if for the first time since this auxilium college will be joining these courses if there are 25 candidates who are present in the examination during July to October run and if at least 13 of the candidates qualify to get the certificate then as a first state the local chapter will be rated as a active local chapter okay you can see the percentage of local chapter participation different states the data is for you statewide enrollment yes every state does not participate in equal numbers but yes it varies from state to state the courses top the table is led by the terminal it has got maximum participation from terminal state of terminal well new local chapters as we said that you can initially encourage the students to take some soft skills core or English language course then slowly ask them to take some you can say skill best courses maybe some other courses from the foundation level or programming or skill best courses like AI email data science machine learning depending on the curriculum of the particular college okay encourage the students to do a domain so that within the three years or four years tenure they should be able to complete six or seven courses within three semesters you have four semesters they can always be encouraged to say explore more on the gate exam portal initially they can actually check the rerun courses because the videos are already available and dedicated time for the students to do NPTEL courses always better if you can allow some faculty member who will be helping the students as a mentor and as we said please ensure that there is no college activities around the NPTEL exam we also provide mentorships certificate to the faculty members who are doing very well rather their performance is just based on the performance of their students they are doing mentoring that is based on the performance of the mentees if they do very well in the examination and the mentors get a 10 mentorship points then they get a certificate from IIT Madras uh I'll leave this program with this I'll stop at this point we are running out of time yeah since I did not find much question so that was not answered whichever came in between I definitely answered that with this I hand over the stage to SPSE madam sister Therese thank you sir yeah thank you sir thank you so much for a excellent presentation on NPTEL vision and mission its functioning its impact infrastructure course features enrollment procedure certification criteria and NPTEL stars domain certificate really it was very clear and explained well we do consider all your ideas initiatives and suggestions to prepare the faculty members and students to make use of these NPTEL courses and explore more innovation in their learning and teaching thank you sir it was really wonderful thank you sir only one question is there any internship program or training available for our students yes internship is currently connected with your you can say toppers if a student is topper in a particular course in that case we first say the student has done a course under a particular faculty okay the internship is always available under the same faculty so what do we do once we get the results are declared immediately we check whether there are any toppers or not if there are toppers we ask the faculty can you accommodate some of the students for internship once we get a consent we write back to the students saying that internship opportunities are provided by this faculty if you are willing do send us the following documents one of them is ratio second is the statement of purpose what they intend to do reading the internship say four weeks what is their plan okay so many of the places you might have seen that even the admission is based on the SOP so here also SOP is taken then if they are say in the third four fifth semester the last two semester bread sheets also asked for so based on that the students are selected and the selected candidates are given an offer later of four to twelve weeks duration internship they come to the institute they're working here sometimes in some courses they will be doing an online internship also and on completion of the internship they'll be submitting the internship report to the institute as well as we'll be submitting them we'll be giving them a internship certificate and reimbursing the expenditure that is 5000 rupees for say four weeks duration this is the whole process of internship is currently it is purely for the NPTL post office thank you sir thank you sir for the explanation now i'll just read about our local chapter of a xillum college of arts and science for women jay shree ma'am can you permit me to share the screen please ma'am let me check and uh this is all yes sir yes sir yeah ma'am thanks for the session ma'am yeah no ma'am can you allow me to share the screen one second green from the studio can you please give them access before that starts there is a question um as a spoke person how can i organize the workshop in my institute first uh if you want to do it yourself we can share you the presentation slides you can do it yourself if you know the process else you can write to our local chapter group we'll be organizing as we read today our local chapter was established in the year 2023 june our id is 5874 almost 135 students are registered and the number of faculties are 15 the impacts and benefits of NPTL it provides every detail about course and lecture including ppt text and it's a platform where we do self-learning it's highly qualified mentors to assist the students the programs and the assignments are well designed students benefit from measurable outcome and there are regular assignments to evaluate their progress weekly better placement in reputed companies and these certificates are valued and recognized access the top class education and related resources to underprivileged students of our college availability of quality education without any extra fees helping in the development of the college by providing quality education to every students of our college our students can learn from experts flexibility to learn their own space and there are few advantages on online learning flexibility reduced cost more free time increased course variety career advancement opportunities increased collaboration personalized education enhanced time management skills repeated access to course materials and it helps the students to enjoy technical enhanced learning and there are also some obstacles faced by the rural students lack of motivation lesser attention span abundant distractions lack of tech facilities technical issues health issues lack of productivity poor-time management and increased dependency and these are the participation certificates of our staff members and just we have initiated this wine portal only month before we are constantly encouraging and motivating our students to take part and to participate in all NPTEL courses so thank you so much for the team for the NPTEL team IIT Madras and for all the participants so we look forward for few more courses to help our students to make use of their innovative and creativity for their better learning thank you thank you ma'am shall we conclude ma'am yes ma'am thank you for joining the session thank you that's a thank you ma'am thank you principal ma'am I take immense pleasure to thank the NPTEL team IIT Madras for accepting our proposal and organizing this NPTEL awareness workshop and my heartfelt thanks to Dr. Shri Shankar Das for explaining in details about the NPTEL courses and the advantages and the significance of these courses I heartily thank our Secretary-Sister Magnificat and the Principal Sister Pushpa for their constant support in promoting quality and innovative education I extend my sincere thanks to all the faculty members for motivating our students towards NPTEL I special thanks to all the participants for your active involvement in this NPTEL program once again thank you all