 is my screen is shared, shared is my, I hope my screen is shared now. Yes sir, screen is shared now. Once again a warm welcome to the PETL awareness program e-workshop. It's a great opportunity for me to representing Guru Nanak Institution Technical Campus as director. Here, from the past couple of years and recently our students and faculty are benefited and using these NPTEL courses with a stipulated timetable with a proper approach. So, before starting my presentation, the Guru Nanak Institution Technical Campus, we are having an experience of 23 years excellence in education. And this Guru Nanak Institution has one of the largest education in the Telangana. We have pharmacy as well as MBA and dental college also there. Our founder, chairman sir is T.S. Kohli sir and our beloved vice chairman sir, Gaganthip Singh sir under their leadership and an eminent education minister, M.D. Sir, Dr. H.S. Saini sir. All together the journey of 23 years, our college is NAAC accurate by three times. Recently we obtained A plus once again and we have an NIR ranking of innovations between the bandwidth of 101 to 150 and nearly four departments are MBA accredited. Three more departments are under pipeline. This indicates that the education system here we are maintaining a quality direction. And we have a 13 centers of excellence, which has a base on the requirements on the current society. And we have an honors and the awards. And we have GNA Award Excellence of Engineering Technology Education in Times Group 2023. And we have a Guru Nanak Indian ranking is there National Institute of Ranking. And recently we obtained the E.T. education leadership best. Similarly, we have been awarded awards and recognitions of government and recognize bodies as well as award for education excellence and the British award for the most preferred campus excellence campus recruitment award also obtained excellence awards in the global quality awards. Imminent education award in an industry, industry foundation research excellent awards. These are all indicating that out of this 23 years journey of education system based on the society requirements. Our management is always focusing on the quality and the experiential faculty recruitment and as well as good teaching learning practices. And we have a systematic approach of research reaching. In this contest, I would like to inform very important point is that the NPTEL courses, we have been used to benefit of the students as well as particularly for the faculty. The delivery quality is improved by the faculty because of the NPTEL courses. Placement packages are impacted. Why because the HR people are the resume will be automatically become a standard for the students. In every department, our coordinators are there. The coordinator roles and responsibilities, they will be collected very clearly all placement eligibility students. I have been taken care about one to backlogs also, which will give it give a confidence for the students, this NPTEL courses clearance. In this regard, my department my management also quite kind enough, they're supporting financial support support also there. In GNI, we have totally in 2022-23, 1553, 1553 placements has been offered places. The placement eligibility, specificity, certain MNCs are specifically focusing and these those students are completing this NPTEL courses, the resumes are pulled very clearly. Here, some of the companies are mentioned here, which are our students are placed. In this regard, my placement director, Vinay Chopra and the leadership of HSA Sainisar and our team, we are always focusing for a good placement for below average and average students also. Now, a statistical report I'm sending you a SM local chapter has been ranking here, the NPTEL courses established in 16th October 2019. From January to April 22, the January April 2023 is the first module and July December, July to December 22 and January to April 23. Our GNNTC college is here by recognized as an active local chapter. This active local chapter because of we have a timetable depends upon our academic calendar. Those slots are a little free of the students as well as the faculty, we have been registered the courses which are important and essential for the emerging technologies. Recently, our mechanical and civil and EC faculty also, everybody completed two two important NPTEL courses, which are useful for them to take the classes for my core students of CSE as well as IT students, AI and machine learning is useful for us for obtaining their settlement. Similarly, we have one more important point is we have been a local library e-learning resources with nearly 25,000 plus all category of journals, etc. And we have a e-library is there this e-library is used not only for the faculty for the students in the hostels and staying in the campus of the faculty. Specifically, from evening five to eight o'clock the library is used for NPTEL courses completion as well as certain piece of work of the research. The courses running here and presented is the recent January to April 2023 149 students are presented obtained a light as a 40 silver sir nine successfully completion 59 participation is 41 top or sir one. As you can observe the table specifically we have the gold is two and Alex are nearly 100 silver sir more than 25 means all these certifications to obtain by the faculty nor by the students. We have a regular practice of this good teaching learning process with the help of NPTEL. I'm definitely proudly say that this NPTEL is very much useful and impact on my faculty career as well as the student career. This is our coordinators always give a awareness program for the respective branches every week they are meeting is conducting and the meeting the concern coordinators or give the clarity of the roadmap. For example, the pharmacy department is colleges there the pharmacy certain NPTEL courses are specifically designed, which is useful for the research work as well as the best placements on the core departments. Since our colleges near to pharmaceutical companies, big companies are there, we are trying to using this NPTEL courses to obtain a good packages for the students those are in the pharmacy. Specifically, he recently in EC department, we got a two awards for the students faculty also the faculty are automatically recognized by recently NACP team also. These are all we have happily with the interest with the dedication or my team under the economical roof we are doing these things. Similarly, we have been taken NPTEL aims for the partners with organizing a mutually beneficial manner offering courses train freshers in the companies to cross skills. These cross skills are very essential specifically mechanical as well as civil students because the core companies nowadays this mechanical and civil companies are we're getting universal truthies that little less companies are visiting. In this contest, the topers and eligible candidates are completing this NPTEL courses. So the impact of the success stories of the we have been very clear that the gateway to it via NPTEL right place for the best guidance. Similarly, the NPTEL is a knowledge based program, not only for the marks, as well as when are the students are prepared for the. Introduce technically tier that means technical rounds of the NPTEL questions and answers they are used for the recollecting. These the feedback is given by the outgoing students recently by EC students as well as my CSC students. So, here the practical point of view, if you can continue this process, we definitely these the percentage of NPTEL utilizations and obtaining the certificates are increasing. Similarly, we have been a roadmap in a such a manner that without disturbing academics as well as the placement era, we are focusing from the first year onwards. Since from the first year onwards, since we have only three years to get a first company, we are planning to take a course beyond the limitations that means some of the course which are not covered in my technical course structures, my academic team and HODs are giving a suggestions depends upon the students potential also we are suggesting the bottom of the line. We're not putting a burden to my students, we're educating them the objective of the NPTEL very clearly and the expertise how these will be impact on social media also. The silver medal is there in the gold medal is there automatically the good companies are recognized the student or a faculty is worthwhile. Similarly, there are giving case studies Mr. Kaushik P is a student of third year CSML is completing a Python 5 NPTEL with a 91% top 2% that means golden batch. This is one case today like that there are nearly as I mentioned you totally 150 plus students are different levels. Of course, it's not possible to get in everybody's gold, but as well as silver, which impacts on the students and the remaining friends also motivated. They have been given a lecture by him to every class, how he obtained a golden why because the same time is there for 24 hours for every student and faculty, but the student is maintained a good discipline, regularly contact the NPTEL courses videos and note the notes, any doubts are there that particular student is in fact the coordinator as well as online doubts are there. And then more and another student is there, we have studying a Karthik of VTEC CSC students. This student is completing Python for data sensors. He also obtained 80% above is also 2% above you got a silver batch. And the study regressions and the classifications. All are with a stupid time worker, and we have been taking care of the sequence of data types and associated operations, ponder dates, etc. All are these particular students are practicing very well. The next question here is this particular kind of extra economical activities obviously stands good and best for the institution level also we are always happy when you've seen the progress card of NPTEL and we are getting self motivated to do more and more. And this particular sessions are very useful for us and I myself is feeling very happy for the past two years. I'm very happy to working with this particular GNITC and we have been promising in coming to sessions of six plus six. But double the number, not with the interest of forcing with the interest of the students with respect to motivational and essential of the NPTEL courses. Recently, we are conducting workshops for the awareness programs and importance of these particular subjects depends upon their subject background and branches. I'm very much thankful the NPTEL entire core team and national wise, I'm really thankful to my bottom of the outside and thankful to my entire team. I'm unable to remember the names but every coordinator is doing their work beyond their interest. This is only for the benefit of the student community, as well as we are planning is not only increase the number, we are planning to increase the silver as well as the focusing on the gold without disturbing the I'm thankful. I'm giving the permission for the continuation. Thank you. Thank you one and all. Mr. Ravi, please take care. Thank you, sir. Let me start. Please continue sir. Senior manager. Resource person. Please continue the sessions. I respect the director said the survey single point of contact of NPTEL college faculty members who are connected to this program to watch virtually through YouTube that my dear students a very good morning. All of you have one welcome to the NPTEL awareness workshop being organized by NPTEL in association with the Guru Nanak institutions technical campus. Before I proceed further, let me share my sleep. So during the say his workshop, what all things will be covering. We understand this college has been a local chapter since 2019, but although during the last two semesters, not much, not many people have actually enrolled. Maybe in the early phase of any institutions, new initiative, there could be less response. So now things are picking up. This workshop through this workshop will try to sensitize all the students were connected here on what all things takes place in the NPTEL from right from what NPTEL is how in online certification program is run right from your selection of courses. Different states will show you hands on. Then what is credit transfer particularly for the importance of students community, what is going certification, what all internship opportunities are available to NPTEL. So I'm still training how it improves the confidence of the people for facing the interview on how NPTEL can actually help you in that regard. The gate portal, if someone is interested to look for a gate examination out for jobs in the public sector, I'm taking how the gate portal can help you for the faculty members for the career profession. How it can be useful and the other initiatives will talk about that initiative from the industry or in terms of your initiative like NPTEL class self-paced courses will talk about all this. Then we'll also briefly touch upon NPTEL swam swam NPTEL local chapter how to become a local chapter what are the benefits associated with it. And we'll also take the question and answer session we'd rather not go by the separate question and answer session at the end. As we talk about the same outline of the talk on different issues, if there are any concern, if there are any queries, we'd always like to take the questions as and when it comes into the chat box and respond to that. So let me just go forward. NPTEL is nothing new is an acronym National Program on Technologies Enhanced Learning. It was a project of seven older IITs and ISE Bangalore, which started its journey way 20 years back in 2003. So we had multiple phases of our journey during these 20 years in the early phases since 2003 to 2013. We were primarily focusing on creating the content. That means, what about the faculty members of IIT are teaching in the classroom for the students used to record it and make it available for the learners outside. So if they want to actually refer to those lectures, they could. And there were some in addition to these video courses, there were some quick courses. That is some sort of a PDF material, along with some you can say animation and all. These are the two versions which are primarily the one which want to learn the things go through the contents and that's all. But from 2014 that train was going for the online certification in the global front things were coming that way. So from that point we started offering course level online certification program. That means you take the course you learn it, then there is a provision for certification. That means you write an exam, get a certificate in the form of a tangible output to show to the outside world. See, I have learned this subject from such and such faculty of this institute. Okay, so what we started as a vision of providing high quality affordable education at large scale in 2003. Our vision remains same as on today. But in addition to what we used to do in the early phase, we have now from 2014 we have started offering course level certification program and also taking measures for this promotion. We have been used by different colleges and universities. During these 20 years we have created about 3000 plus unique courses. Okay, and these contents are made available to the learners not only within the India but across the globe to YouTube. MPTL has got a MPTL HRD YouTube channel and you can see the number of subscription is 4.5 million plus subscription. And if you see the viewership it is 1.6 billion plus viewers. This itself speaks the popularity of MPTL courses because these MPTL contents are not for entertainment purpose but purely for the higher education content materials. During this period we have created about 60,000 hours of content videos and some of these videos have been created with English subtitles also. Now, once you say that we are offering the courses from MPTL, there is a platform from 2016. This to a patient actually started develop the program called SMOIAM which is an acronym again. It says study waves of active learning for the young aspiring mice. So this platform was created by the Ministry to offer all online courses which are available in India to a single pattern. So it's an umbrella board to which whoever is interested to offer the courses in India in online format they have to offer the courses. Okay, now since there could be learners from the school to college to higher education sector. So a single agency cannot cater to the needs of all segment of learners. So that is the reason for school children, out of school children, undergraduate, post graduate different coordinators have been created who will target a separate group of learners. Accordingly, MPTL has been identified as the national coordinator for offering undergraduate and post graduate level of engineering education. But as we know, in each of the IITs we have got disciplines like departments like your basic sciences, humanities social sciences and management. In some of the institutes we have got law of course. So we are not only offering the engineering curricula based courses but we are also offering the courses from all these disciplines like humanities, basic sciences, management and all such. What started with only 7 plus 1, 8 institutes. Now we have got more than 30 institutes we are working with. These institutes, newer IITs, triple IITs, IISCRs and there are few university faculties are also taken here to offer the courses. So our target is to just tap in the best potential available in India and offer the courses through them for the benefit of all learners. So these courses we started offering which we started offering in 2014, we follow a MOOC format. What is MOOC? It is massive open online courses. That means these courses are offered in an online mode. They are open. Anyone having an interest should be able to access the content and the number of students can be, there is no limitation. In any course you can have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of people enrolling in a course. And the courses are exactly structured in the way how an university system works. That means it will have a syllabus, it will have a syllabus. It has a start date, end date, weekly structure that how many hours of videos will be all lecture will be there. Then other activities that takes place during the runtime of the course in a classroom, all these activities and at the end there is a certification exam. And the prime benefit is that anyone can take this course from anywhere and learn it at their own convenient time. So we follow a triple A model. The courses are offered in a four quadrant approach. What are these four quadrants? We will see in the next slide. How come so in do we offer the courses? We offer the courses during January or July aligning with the semester systems of the university. Okay, because we know in universities also the timeline is January and July. So all NPTEL courses that we offer are offered through the SWAM portal and that is why our courses are called SWAM courses also. Now, once we say that we are offering the courses from January and July, naturally the question comes when the enrollment starts. The courses starts from January or July. We start say enrollment process at least two months ahead of time. So the enrollment for January courses starts in mid November while for the July program courses that enrollment starts in mid May. Now who can join? As we say anyone can join irrespective of what he or she is currently doing. Whether they are students, faculty members, employed professionals, phone makers or retired professionals or school children, whoever it is. Anyone should be able to join into the course of their choice irrespective of what they are doing currently and the number of courses in which they can enroll is unlimited. It is limited only by their capacity. Here, once they join for learning in the course through SWAM, they don't have to pay anything because learning through the SWAM is actually free and fully supported by the Ministry of Education. However, if you want to actually get a certificate against the course, in that case you have to write the certification exam which will be conducted separately by it here. And for that is token fee is collected from the candidates to take care of the logistic guarantee. So, enrolling into the course for learning is absolutely only charges that you can pay for certification examination. Now, if we just look at the course features, we talk about four quartets. First, let us see what is the duration of the course. In the terms of duration, if you say it can be either in terms of your number of hours or it could be the offered time. If we consider about the hours, the courses are structured in three different formats. That is either it could be 10 hours duration, 20 hours duration or 30 hours duration. In terms of duration, in terms of offer time, they take it are equivalent to 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks. That means, if we say that 12 weeks will take to complete a 30 hour course, that means we are considering 2.5 hours of lecture per week. Okay, now this 2.5 hours of lecture is not a single lecture of 2.5 hours, not one hour lecture either. These are smaller lecture sizes of entity to be about 30 minutes or lower. This is just to ensure that the students don't find difficulty in downloading the video if they want to. Okay, now we say that we are following a four quartet approach. What are these four quartets? One is definitely the contents that are delivered by the faculty to the students. If we record that contents and make it available, that is every week we are saying that 5 or 6 lectures of a total duration of 20 minutes to 2.5 hours. So this becomes our first quartet, that is pre-reported lecture videos. Second one is that in advanced two phase-to-phase interaction takes place. Now here, since the students or the learners are joining into the course through online mode. So naturally, the interaction cannot be phase-to-phase. So here, the web-based interactive forum is available to reach the learners to be able to interact with the faculty and gets their doubts clarified. Additionally, the faculty will be coming live on YouTube sessions like what we are doing today and will be addressing the queries of the students. If the students have any doubt, they will be posting their queries in the YouTube chat box and the faculty will pick up that question and answer. In addition to these two modes, we will also be engaging the Prime Minister's research fellow scholars to help the learners in their problem-solving skills. Or if they have got any doubt, that is during the course time, the faculty will be most discussing maybe theoretical aspect and little bit of problem-solving will be touched upon. So more of the problems will be asked in the assignment. That will talk a bit later. Okay, so now if the students are not very sure how to solve those assignment problems to help the learners in that direction, the PMRF scholars will be regularly conducting sessions where they will show how to solve the problems. Or if they have got any doubt that the learners have any doubt, that part also be addressed by the PMRF scholars on their weekly session. Further, as a third quadrant, the faculty will be providing supplementary study materials. This could be PowerPoint slides. If the lecture has been recorded sometime back, then the transcript, either in English or in multiple regional languages, the transcript should be made available as study materials. Additionally, the some faculty member may give needs to fee web resources also. The fourth one is that once I go through the first, second and third phase, then there will be one weekly assignment that is a self-assessment quiz. In which there could be 10 to 20 questions, which the students have to actually based on their understanding, they have to solve certain questions. Maybe 10 to 20 questions will be there with certain points. If you just see the weightage of all points that is equivalent to 100. That means each assignment is of 100 and they are graded. 10 days timeline is given to the students to complete the assignment. That means Monday onwards, if you count from one Monday till next week's Wednesday, 11.59 is the timeline. Within this 10 days timeline, the students are permitted to submit as many times the assignment they need, but only the last submission will be considered for gradation. And once the submission deadline expires, the student will be able to see their score out of 100 in the portal. Now, once you go through the semestay weekly structure and you are now interested for the certification exam, what are the features of this? I can learn the subject from the comfort of iPhone, that's fine. But what about certification exam? Certification exam is in-person and centred. It's a proctor. That means the students who are writing the exam or who intend to write the exam, they have to come to the exam centre with a valid identity card and write the exam in presence of the representative of MPL. Exam centres are spread across the country. It's not very far away from whichever city you are in. The exams are conducted in two modes, either online or offline. The fine difference between these two is that in online, the exams and the questions and the answers, they are all to be submitted. The questions will be appearing on the screen. The answers are also to be submitted online. That means in the computer, it's the way you have been submitting the assignments in it. In an, you can say, doing the assignment first, then the same. Whereas it is offline, the questions will be appearing before you in the computer. But the students will be given conventional exam papers, answer scripts, where they have to write the answers. And it will be manually written. Whereas for the online exams, it will be auto-graded. In a session, whether it's January or in July, there will be three days of the exam. On each day, there are two sessions in which you can write exam for two papers. So if you have chosen, say, certain courses whose exam dates are falling on the same date, please note that there are two sessions per day. And if you are taking two exam, two courses whose exam dates are flashing on the same date, you don't have to worry. You will be writing one exam in the form of another exam in the afternoon. So in a semester for three days of exam, you will be able to write maximum of six courses. As we said that learning for learning purpose, you don't have to pay anything. But for writing the exam, there are certain fees. The fee structure is 1000 rupees per course, irrespective of the course duration. That means whether you are writing for a four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, the fee structure remains same for general candidates. However, for the students like who are from SCSD or persons with disability having more than 40% disability, they are eligible to get a partial fee waiver to the extent of 50% on production of relevant cost certificates on medical documents during the exam registration phase. Once you conduct the exam, on the date of exam, within 30 days, you will be publishing the results. And the certificates that we will be offering you, they are all key versions of the certificate. It will be signed by the board. It will be issued by the institute that is offering the course. If the course is offered by, say, IIT Guwahati, the institute officials from IIT Guwahati will be signing the certificate, but it will definitely be at the logo of NTTL and SCOAM. The certificates will be your name and further details. Along with that, there will be QR code so that if you produce the certificate to anyone, they will be able to verify the authenticity of the certificate by scanning the QR code. Now, the certification criteria is that usually 75% weightage comes from the assignment, sorry, final exam, and 25% weightage is taken from the assignment, weekly assignment. These are primarily for the non-programming courses which are in general most of the courses fall into this category. This 25% weightage from the assignment is calculated not on based on all assignment score. For a 12-week assignment, only based 8 assignments course will be taken into account. For 8-weeks assignment, based 6 assignments course will be counted. And for a 4-week course, only the based 3 assignments course will be counted for calculating your 25% average assignment score. However, for the programming courses like C, C++, Java, Python, MeriLog, there will be an additional component where we will be conducting a non-proper programming test immediately for the exam. There will be two slots given to you. During these two slots, one during the day, one during the night, you can take the programming test from the comfort of your home or from college, whatever it is, wherever you are. Now here, if you take both the exam, that will also find that highest score out of these two would be taken and 25% weightage will be calculated from there. In that case, since 25% weightage is already fixed for assignment and 25% weightage comes from the programming test, the final exam for programming courses will be only 30% weightage. Now for getting a certificate, it is essential that the average score in each component that is final exam and assignment should be at least 40%. If you just calculate that way, that is out of 25, you should get at least 10 marks in the assignment and out of 75, your final certificate score should be at least 30. If you don't get into this, then you are not considered successful in your course. Based on the cumulative total of assignment score, programming score, if any, and the final exam score, we actually grade the students on five points. If the total score is less than 40, you say you are unsuccessful. Scores between 40 to 59 are considered successfully completed. Scores between 60 to 100 will be the allied tag here on the top of the certificate. 75 to 89 means along with the allied tag, we will have a silver medal symbol printed on your certificate. We will call it allied silver. Scores between 90 to 100 will have allied and a gold medal symbol printed on the certificate which we call the allied gold. Additionally, if you consider that you have actually you are in the top 1%, 2% or 5% of the total successful candidates. Additionally, there will be top 1%, 2% or 3% such top 1% also printed on the certificate. This is how a sample certificate will look like. It will be your photograph, student name, course name, your individual marks in each component, the total consolidated score. When these scores were offered, how many students successfully completed during this time, your role number, your QR code for verification of the certificate and the coordinated skills will be provided. Now the important points you need to remember is that we will be identifying each of the learners by their immediate email ID. That means whatever email ID that you have used for enrollment into the course, you should never change that email ID until the time to complete the course. Otherwise, whatever activities that you have done using a different email ID is lost. On screen calculators are only to be used, you cannot use your, you can say physical calculators, they are not prohibited. So what we do, you can, before coming for the exam centers, it's always advisable that you practice the on screen calculator, how to use it. For this, you can go to this link, dcsr.com, online assessment scientific calculator. Here if you click, you'll be getting access to the online calculator. Try to make best use of this so that you don't face, this is not unfamiliar to you during the exam process. Okay. And if more number of students are writing the exam from your college, then definitely it is advisable to alert NPTEL beforehand so that the NPTEL can prepare logistically for the exam. It's the candidates who don't have to go further away from their home city. Now the timelines, when you offer, we said that in general, we said January and July. Now we are actually in the July semester and the courses have started from 24th of July. Now if you see the timelines, there are three variations of courses, four weeks, eight weeks and 12 weeks. And we have actually segregated the four weeks and eight weeks courses into two different sets. First set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks, along with all 12 week courses have already started from 24th of July. The enrollment process will close within just few days. On 31st of July, by 5pm, the enrollment will close. So it's important that if you are considering the thinking of taking the courses, during July, there is no delay. You should immediately come to the portal and enroll into the course. There will be a few set of courses, that is set two of four weeks and eight weeks, that will start exactly one month later. That is on 21st of August, these set of courses will start. Now the first set of courses, that is four weeks, eight weeks and 12 weeks, the exam registration will be closing on your 14th of August 2023. For the second set of courses, will be exam registration closed by 11th September 2020. However, the exams, if you see the exam dates, will be having exam of first set of four weeks and first set of eight weeks on 24th of September, in two sessions between 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. For the remaining courses, that is second set of four weeks, eight weeks and all your big courses, will have exam on October 28th and 29th in two sessions each. Now, okay, I have just briefed you what is MPTR, how the courses are offered and all this. Now, if you are planning to, you are a new person, you want to check what are the courses are forthcoming, what are the timeshift. Then, if you want to see all these details, click on to the MPTR.sd.in. You are, you could take it to the MPTR course page, MPTR portal. Here, if you just scroll down, you'll find list of courses that are on offer from July 2024, 2023 and the timelines and guidelines. The timelines and guidelines, what I have shown is from here. And then, if you want to see the list of courses, it will give you, it will open an Excel sheet, where all the 690 courses that are on offer during this semester is available. You can actually download this Excel sheet also. What do you see here? You'll find that discipline wise the course list here. Who is the faculty which institute is offering the course? Then, what is the division of the course? Whether it is a new course that is being offered for the first time or this course was created earlier and is offered in a rerun mode now. What is the start date and all important deadlines are given? Then you have got whether the courses of undergraduate level, postgraduate, whether it's elective course or core course. Whether this course is aligned for faculty development program, or whether this is applicable for any domain certification. Once you talk about the domain possibly, you will be able to see this. Then, the link to join to the course. All these information are available at this point. Further, if you want to look for what are the forthcoming courses from January 2024 or July 2024. You can click on to the NPTEL semester information. Here, if you just click on to the January 2024, it will give you the list of courses that has already been decided to be offered from January 2024. So, the list is available whether it's a new or rerun, but this is not final. This list will be updated as and when more and more courses are approved for rerun on new courses. And the timelines also can be seen from here. If you just see the timeline here, January 2024 timelines, you can see here when the courses in January will start. Now, what we are saying, we are saying that there are two variations of courses. One is the new course, another is rerun course. We always advise for the first time, the student should be encouraged to take some rerun course. What are the benefits of that? Because since these contents were created earlier, in a new course, only the contents will be available on a free basis. That is when the week one starts, only the first week new contents will be available. Second week contents will not have access. Whereas if it is a rerun course, then you will be having access to all previous course content. That means the videos are available to you because in a rerun course, most of the time the existing videos will be used here. But the assignment, what is available here, one set of assignment will be there. The assignment questions pattern will remain same, but the questions will be different. So if you just think about a course on Python, I am taking a popular course. The director was differing to this particular course. The joy of computing is in Python. If someone is taking this course, you can see where it is for soil certification. It is a self-made certificate. You have got all the videos, weekly videos so students can actually go to this portal and learn it. What else they will have? From the assignment section, under download, they will be able to access one set of assignment questions which was offered in 2020. Additionally, they will be able to see the text transcripts. That is, whether it is in English or in the different regional languages, they will be able to see the text transcript from here. Further, if they want to download the complete course contents in different languages, they will be able to download. This is only available, say it is available in English. In the Kannada, few languages it has been translated to. If the students are taking these courses from July 2024 and they are not very conversant, they have studied in local regional languages up to 10 plus two and they are finding it difficult to follow the language in English. In that case, this translated version becomes very helpful for the learners. All these things are available. We will be talking more about these things in the later slides. Additionally, they can also see the statistics. This will give an idea like how many people wrote the exam and how many people actually were successful in completing the course. This will give an idea like how difficult or how easy the course would be. Further, they will have the details of the top part. As I understand, one of the students from York College wrote the top part and if you just look for his or her name, you will be able to see the list here, the name of the student here. Now, we have seen timelines, we have seen forthcoming courses. If it is a read-on course, we have checked the NPTEL portal, what all things are available. Now it is time to join into the course. For joining into the course or endowing into the course, we have to go to soym.gov.in quota. What is available here? Once we go here, since the courses are offered through the Squyum, we will have to either write the name of the course here or if required, if I don't know the name of the course, I just click on to the all courses. Then it will show the courses which are on offer from all national coordinators under SWE. Like you see, NPTEL, CEC, UGC, NPTEL, NCR, all courses are available. But if I am looking for NPTEL course, I will put filter here, NPTEL. I can also select the course duration. Say I am looking for a 12-week course. I can select the category, under category the branch of my engineering and technology sector. I am looking for this and all the courses from engineering sector are available here. Now if I am interested to enroll into any of these courses, then what I do? See, all these courses are given here. Say this is an analog communication course. This is an NPTEL offered course. Important timelines are given. So if I click on to the course card, it will take me to the course page. Here it will show me that okay, 2800 people have already enrolled. The faculty has given a brief introductory video here, telling that what you are she is going to teach the subject and what is the learning outcome. About the course, what is the intended audience and if there is any prerequisite. The syllabus is given, the books to be referred, instructor biography, all these details are available. Also, you will find that under the summary section, in some courses it will be written here whether this is a FDP course under here. Okay. If I want to join into the course, I just click on to the join button. It will take me to the course enrollment page. Okay. Here, since I have already enrolled here, sorry, I have already logged in using my Gmail Google account. So that has directly taken me here. Otherwise, it will give me multiple options. And if you have a Google account, it's always advisable that you can use your Google account. And if you pick your Google account and give you a credential if you come to this page, here you will find certain data has been taken directly from the Google account. Then some of the data you have to select from drop down your age. Say, 13 to 100, you can select whichever age group you belong to, the gender, country, pin code and pin code you have to put. Once you put your pin code, immediately it will take the state and the city. Then you have to select your student, faculty, employer or other, your profession. If you are a student or faculty, you will be asked to fill up whether you are part of a Swayam local chapter. Since your college is the local chapter, you can select yes. If it is not a local chapter, in that case, you can select no. And under this state, say I am from Madhya Pradesh and my college is not a local chapter. That is what I do. Under this section, there will be an other section. Under other, if my college is not a local chapter, I will put the name of my college here. Okay, I will be typing out my college under other section. Otherwise, I fill up my college roll number, degree that I am pursuing my department, study here, all these things. And then fill up or click on these two buttons and join into the course. Once I click here, it is saying that, okay, I have successfully enrolled into the course. Now, this is my course page where I have to come. What are the things available in this course page? There are few tabs on the top and there are few tabs on the left hand side. Most important part is here. Here you get week one where this course has already started. So in the week one, what I find, I find there are two lectures. There are seven lectures. There is one assignment. If I click on any of these lectures, what I will find, I will find that the video has been played here. The video text transcript is available here. So I can, along with the video, I'll be able to see. If I click on to the video, it will also show, say, it will show what, it will be continuously aligning with the faculty what it is saying. Okay, this is what then I can see the assignment. This is an online auto grading assignment. That means the questions are appearing here. I have to solve the problems and click on to the radio button. We have said that there are 10 days timeline before me. Since the timeline is given, in what date I'll be able to submit the assignment. Okay, once I complete it, I'll have to submit here. Now here you see there are one point to each question. That means if there are 10 questions each of one point, that means it's 10 points. And we say that each assignment is of 100 marks. That means each question is equivalent to 10 marks. Okay. What else is available here? Announcement section. Once the assignment or the lectures are released or the assignment solution is released beyond the assignment submission deadline, this will be put here. And this information will also be going to your mailbox as a mail separately. Ask a question is a important point where you'll be posting your queries related to the video. So this is something like your simulation of what you ask in your faculty in a classroom. To post your queries like many of your PR group students might have posted their queries. Okay. What else is available here? If you are submitting the assignment, we are saying that it is out of 100 and it's creative. So you really need to see what is your score once the assignment submission deadline takes path. Where do you go? You click on to the progress step and under this progress step, you'll be able to see your score in that particular assignment. If your college has allocated some faculty member to act as a mentor to provide support to your learning process. In that case, the faculty will enroll into the course identifying that he or she is a faculty. Identify the local chapter college. In that case, the name of the faculty will be displayed in the SPOC dashboard. This will be known to the single point of contact. So the single point of contact will mark this faculty as a mentor and then only the name of the faculty will be available under this step to you. So you can select the name of the faculty once you see that this is the faculty from your college who is a mentor. In that case, choose this one so that your performance will be able to be tracked by the mentor faculty. This is what is available in the course page. So these are the four quadrants. One is the video. Another is your assignment. Ask a question is third one and text transcription is the fourth part. All these four quadrants are available in the course page. Now you have gone through all weekly structures. On through the videos, question answer, say supplementary study materials, then submitted assignments and portrait. For the examination, you have to register separately to the examform.nptl.xc.in. If you click here, then it will be opening a separate page, exam instruction page where you have to go and identify which are the courses that you want to. Right exam for select your exam city, not center exam city. In choice, you have to give three choices in pay the fees. All modes of fee payments are available, pay the fees and complete the exam registration. All the students who are enrolled in the course, they will be given these all access to or rather they will be periodically will send messages for exam registration. Exam registration for all these courses are already open and will be closing on the dates that I have shown the previous slide. Okay, now we'll be just giving you a rapid revision on the statistics. Some of the statistics just to tell you that how many people are doing these courses and all. So far, during this hour, 2014-2023, 5372 courses have been offered under the SWIM NPTEL program. We have about 2.3 crore class enrollment. Exam registration numbers was 28.6 lakhs and more than 18.8 lakhs learners have actually been certified. This has been our jaan. What is that? We started our jaan in 2014 with just three courses with 3000 people registering against 1.1 lakh learners who enrolled into the course. But see the gradual, it's almost like an exponential growth during the last year that is 2022 in the last two semesters. January and July 2022, we offered 1213 courses out of that 24 lakh class students enrolled into the course and more than 5 lakh registered for the exam. Sorry, 7.5 lakh registered for the exam. During the last semester, 665 courses were offered for which more than 24 lakhs enrollments and more than 5 lakh exam registration were reported. And we are currently, since it is not yet closed, we are offering about 690 courses, almost similar or more number of enrollment and exam registration will be reported that we expect. And what type of courses we are offering, we said that is coming from the IITs, naturally the courses will be more on the core engineering sector. But definitely we are not focusing only on the engineering courses. We are also offering the courses from other diverse disciplines like humanities, social science management. You can say basic sciences, multidisciplinary courses, law by your health science courses are also being offered. Whether these courses will draw or maybe attract more number of students or lesser students is immaterial. We really want to cater to the needs of whether they are undergraduate students or they are researchers. So, if the course is on a high end, say as required for the researcher, so naturally the number of students will be lesser. But still we are offering because this program is fully funded by the ministry and we should be targeting the requirement of all course learners. We are also offering the courses, say someone is interested to learn Japanese, German, English languages, they are welcome to come and we offer good number of courses from these areas also. Exam as attendance percentage, we say that about 90% of the students who register for the exam, they turn up in the exam centre for writing the exam because they are so confident by the time they reach to the end of the exam. They become so confident after going through the rigorous process of learning, that is going through the video, interacting with the faculty, solving assignments every week at least 10 sessions. They become confident and go to the exam centre. The pass percentage currently is about 70% of the students successfully complete the courses. And if you see the gender split between how many boys and girls actually take up these courses is almost like 40 girls, 40 women versus 60 male joined into these courses which is very healthy. Now, what are the benefits? If you may say that why should I do these courses? Yes, I understand that you are doing a regular degree from your college, but then what are the avenues before you after you graduate? Either you could be going for the higher studies. For this, you have to qualify for your exam or similar type of competitive exam. If you are planning to go for say jobs, in that case, you will be required to go in it to not only have your basic understanding of, in-depth understanding of your fundamentals, but you should be always having skill-based training. That means whatever way the industry is going, whatever is the trend in the industry, you should have knowledge on that. And it is possible that as part of your curriculum, you are not being exposed on that. Or even if you have the exposure, it's good that if you can learn from somewhere where you'll be having a rigorous practice of some of the practical problems. So you get some of the industry-ready courses from the NPTEL that will prepare you better for the better job opportunity. Now, once you are appearing for the interview, it is essential that you should have proper soft skills. That means you should know how to prepare your resume, how to face the interview board, your body language, your communication skills, what are the common questions are, and what are your shortcomings, how to recover that. All these things are to be known. So we are offering the courses from soft-scale language school to improve your confidence to face the interview. Some of the students might be taking a different path altogether. They may start their own business entity. For that, they really need to know how to prepare a project proposal, how to get the finances, how to run the business. All these things for this, the number of courses are offered from entrepreneurship area. Now, additionally, the whatever courses you are doing there, you're getting a certificate from IITs and IIS, which will definitely improve your internship or job prospect as was highlighted by the director. Additionally, the credit transfer owners, minor degree, these are the provisions created by the EIC that up to 20% credit can be taken by the college per semester basis from SMIME courses. And additionally, if they complete, say, 18 to 20 credits from SMIME, they get an honor degree or minor degree. This is only possible if the college itself is autonomous college or the affiliate university has adopted these courses for credit transfer. If you are looking for jobs in the public sector and the techings, then definitely you need to do very well in the gate examination because they are now linked with the gate score. So for this, to prepare it better for the gate examination, we have created a gate portal and linked all the courses that are relevant for your gate preparation. For the faculty members, you get a lot of courses which will earn the faculty's MVP points. And for the industry people, we are offering the courses from the emerging areas which will help the learners to upskill or reskill themselves well in the industry. What are the reasons why they are taking the courses, always collect the feedbacks and if you see the feedbacks, whatever we said they are aligned with that. That a large number of people take these courses not only for the credits, but for getting job and internship opportunities. Similarly, some of the people are taking these courses to just brush up their skills. That is to update myself with the knowledge in this particular field, whether they are in the industry or they are aspiring to join the industry. They take these courses so that you can say ready with the skill sets required by a particular industry. Some of them will definitely take this for the competitive exam, some are taking for the research activities. Which are the courses where you find maximum enrollment and registration? The list is before you. Yes, there are some courses which are primarily focused on the current trend of job market. Maybe they are interested in certain languages like Python, data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things, cloud computing, ethical hacking, cyber security. All these courses are quite popular among the learners and they registered in large numbers in these courses. Additionally, you will also find large number of enrolled candidates from the soft skill area. The main challenge with NPTEL is that the large number of enrollments or exam institutions reported at the last moment from certain cities. Now, since the exams are city, you can say center-based proctor exams. That means we have to make arrangement for the exam center for you. Now, if you can identify if the college can identify the number of students who will be writing the exam and alert the NPTEL before and then it becomes easy for the NPTEL to arrange for the exam centers for this city, exam centers for your students in a local region. Otherwise, the students may be inconvenienced to move to another city or we will have to force the exams to be taken on some other additional days. In addition to the three days that we have identified and if you have seen in the swim page, it was clearly written that for some courses, we might be compelled to take exams from some other days also. As we have already discussed that we are utilizing the services of the PMRF scholars for assisting the learners in their doubt-bearing as well as how to solve the problem. During January 2023, we have replaced the services of 466 PMRF scholars, where they handled about 284 courses and conducted about more than 4,700 sessions. These sessions, which are conducted on a weekly basis, they are not only informed the students to different medias, but also we record the contents and make it available for access by the learners. In case they missed to join the live session. Okay. And the students who have joined the live sessions of PMRF scholars, they are actually praising. They have a lot of ways like deciding that it is very good and nice session conducted. The session lectures is very useful for solving the following assignments. Also, it's benefited for exam point of the NPTEL lecture session is useful for teaching and learning purpose. Such feedbacks are provided to always encourage the students to always advise the students that please join these PMRF sessions. It will be benefited for solving or getting your doubts clarified. Now comes your NPTEL stars. This is a new concept where we are recognizing the efforts of NPTEL learners, depending on how long they are with us. What type of courses they are doing, how many courses they are doing in a semester or over a period of time and what is their performance. If you are planning to gain a deeper understanding in a particular area. Okay. Say you are looking for job in the data science. Then you should know that, okay, what are the courses you should learn as part of your expertise in the data science area. For these, what we have done under the domain scholar program, we have created about 51 domain. I'm just talking about data science as an example, but there are 51 domains from humanities, mathematics, you can say other basic science program management, everywhere you have got domain. So, total 51 domains are created under which we have got certain core and elective courses. If you can complete it in three different time, you'll be able to get a domain scholar. We'll see more about it in the next slide. However, NPTEL superstars are those people who have actually taken a four to six courses for writing the exam in a semester in at least their top in three exams. That is they call, they are called NPTEL superstars. If you are present in at least 14 exams, sorry, 18 exam, 18 courses, you are writing the exam during a period of four years or eight semesters. And if you are qualified to get a certificate in two part of the courses, then definitely call you NPTEL evangelists. NPTEL motivated learners are enthusiast are similar. Only thing they have to, they have to complete eight exams. They have to appear for eight exams in four semesters and pass in at least 75% of the courses. While in motivated learners, it should be continuously without any break in semester and enthusiast are those people who are fulfilling the same criteria, but maybe they were, we are not looking for the continuity. They might have taken break in one particular semester. Recipient stars are those people who are done at least 50 weeks of learning from a particular area. Say computer science, they have done 50 weeks of course from NPTEL. Okay, they are discipline stars and NPTEL believers are those who are present in four to six exams with passing in at least four exam that they have appeared for. These are the NPTEL superstars as NPTEL starts and we'll talk more about the domain scholars. What is domain scholar? As we said that if you want to gain expertise on a particular focused area, whether for getting say employment in that area or you want to go for higher studies in that particular area. For that we have created the domain. If you just go to that domain page, we'll see that out of 12 disciplines how we have created 51 domains. Just click onto the browser domains, then aerospace, biotechnology and bioscience, civil engineering, all domains and names are different. Sorry, here it was chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, faculty discipline, humanities, social science, management, mathematics, mechanical engineering and metallurgy and materials engineering. So these are the 12 disciplines that we have created under which 51 domains. And of course you are looking for an advanced mechanics domain from mechanical engineering. Let us see what all things are there. Here you are required to complete 50 weeks of learning. Out of which there should be at least three core courses which are specified here. Which are the four courses and if they are offered during this time July, it is marked here that now it is open for the enrolled. And you have to complete three elective courses. That means three plus three, three core three elective, the total duration of the courses should not be less than 50. So from this, once you complete it, you have to, there are 2.5 years that you have to meet is that the total timeline of completing these four and elective courses should not be more than three years. And individual core sports should not fall below 55 and the average total, once you complete all six courses, the average score should not be less than 60. What are the criteria? Three years, the competition time, 55 less than 55 is not permitted, at least 55 individual subjects and average score should be 60 once you complete all courses. Okay, this is about domain. And if you want to see, okay, what are the people who are completing the domain if you are interested to see that, you can just go to our domain scholar. Here you will be able to see a domain scholar who are the people who are doing this domain. It's a mix of faculty. You can see the students here. You'll also see employed professionals here. So it's a mix of faculty, student and employed professionals. And particularly if you are a student, it's always good that if you can complete one of the domains before you graduate. It doesn't take more than three or four semesters. If you can complete your domain, then definitely you are placed. You have got some age over your other friends who might have not done, particularly for the job market. Okay, then comes once you complete the domain, this is how the sample domain certificate will look like. It will bear your photograph, your name, what domain you have completed and from which discipline and the certificates that your courses that you have completed with your score and QR code. This is how a sample domain certificate will look like. You might think that, okay, people are doing only one domains. No, it's not true. Yes, definitely 571 scholars have completed one domain, but there are a good number of students or scholars who have completed more than one domain. Well, 32 scholars have completed two domains. There are four persons who have completed even three domains. You can just imagine they might have completed 18 to 20 courses and we have records that they are learners who have completed about 35 to 40 courses in NPTEL so far. They are so enthusiastic about learning process. The most popular courses among the industries, some of them as we said that data science, Python, electrical vehicles, renewable energy, cloud computing, safety engineering, all these courses are quite popular amongst the industry. And it's good if you can do something from the industry oriented courses or from the domain related courses that makes good sense. The different initiatives that we have taken is that, yes, this is the initiative from the ministry to the UGC and AICT that do higher education regular class. While UGC has said that 40% credits in a semester can be taken from the SWAM courses, AICT says that 20% credit in a semester can be taken from SWAM. Okay, additional 20 credits that they do, they can get about if we take honors degree or might be they will be getting a minor degree. It depends on what degree they will be getting on the decision of the academic council of the university or autonomous college. How do the KD transfer takes place? The UGC and AICT has given the framework, as you can say given the framework. Now this framework has to be accepted by the university. Once they accept it, the academic council has to select a list of courses from SWAM, which will be taken for the credit transfer and define what is the credit equivalence. NPTEL says that a 30 hour course is equivalent to 3 credit, 20 hours is equivalent to 10 credit and one credit is given for 10 hour course. However, the academic council has a decision to take. They can actually suitably modify these depending on their decision. So most of the universities who have taken these courses for credit, they have actually taken these 3 credits or 30 hour courses as equivalent to 4 or 5 credits. While 2 credit courses which is equivalent to 20 hours has been taken as 3 credits by most of the universities. Based on our experience, what we see is that there are certain issues in the credit framework implementation. We suggest that please do not implement the credit framework for the final year students because in case they fail in one of the subjects which is supposed to be taken from SWAM, since there is no provision of supplementary exam that could totally jeopardize their timelines, particularly on the internship or job opportunity. Until and unless there is a backup mechanism from the university to take additional exam for the students. Ideally, you should say that you can leave the first year, first batch, say first semester student because once they are coming from the schools, they will take some time for them to setting new environment. Once they settle from the second semester, you can always encourage them to take smaller say 4 weeks or 8 weeks English or soft skill courses so that they are aware about that. How a MOOC program is run, what are the activities that are to be done on a weekly basis and a weekly basis and they can participate in that. From the third semester, you can actually ask the students to take skill-based courses. Also, it is advisable not to give a rigid structure like you have to do only these courses. You can always give that okay, this is the basket of courses. You take this course, complete it and come back to us with a certificate so that this can be taken for the credit transfer. And whichever course is not taught in the college, maybe it's good if you can find that course is offered in the NPTEL. Always encourage the students to take that course, particularly if there are courses, say programming, data science, new elective courses. Since this will also give the students to have a lot of practice in these NPTEL courses. Now, for the faculty members, if they are taking these courses for the faculty development points for part of that, what they have to do? First, they are enrolled into the course, identifying their faculty members. If they are from college, they can select the college. Then go through the course material, complete the course, write the certification exam. Once they get a certificate, in that case, they have to separately write for the NPTEL certificate to NPTEL by paying a fee of 100 rupees. Okay, but the courses which are marked as the MPP course is not essential that these are only meant for the faculties. These courses can be taken by anyone who is interested to learn the course and get a certificate. Additionally, only the faculty members will get a chance to get an MPP certificate on completion of the course. That's the only difference. I'm not getting any questions in the forum. If there are any questions, kindly post it here so that we can respond to that. Now, what are the criteria for MPP certificate? We say that as per the AICD guidelines, the four weeks course is equivalent to half MPP of one week. A AP course is equivalent to full MPP of one week and the 12 week course is considered equivalent to one and a half MPP. This is on your right. You find that MPP certificate which looks like it is jointly signed by the NPTEL coordinator and AICD representative. During each semester, most of a large number of you can see elective courses and specialized courses, advanced level courses are marked as MPP courses. During the last semester, out of 665 courses, 561 courses were MPP courses. Similar trend is available even during this semester. And if you see that, okay, you have seen the domain certification, a large number of domain certificate holders are from the faculty. Because we find almost 17 to 20% exam registration comes from the faculty group alone. So faculty members, whether they are taking these courses, maybe just to refresh their knowledge, or maybe learning learn a different subject, they are taking these courses in very large numbers. Now, the single point of contracts pay a very pivotal role in the spread of message of MPTEL, that is, this is a government initiative. Now, whatever information that we pass on to the single point of contract, this POC takes the pain of taking it to the notice of the administration, motivate the students to take up the course, support them in the enrollment process, exam registration, printing of the hall tickets in different activities. And just to support the SPOC in their career advancement, if any of the SPOC has got a paper which has been accepted for publication or presentation in a conference which is to be conducted in IITs or NITs, or if you select few institutions, in that case, we provide a financial support of up to 25,000 to the particular faculty. This 25,000 is paid towards the reimbursement of your travel expense, registration fee and accommodation related expenses. For this, during the first 10 days of each month, as window will be open when you can apply with all relevant documents. Only thing kindly note, there are certain institutions mentioned if the program is in that institution, then only you are eligible to get the funding. Apply for the funding and if it meets all the criteria, we'll approve it. And once you complete that, you can say program, submit with all the bills and whatever you have for the reimbursement. Okay, in case the SPOC is not utilizing the benefit, but any other faculty from your college is eligible or rather you feel that his or her paper has been accepted in a conference that is to be conducted in those selected institutions. You can also encourage that faculty to take this benefit provided your she is taking interest in the NPTEL activities. Additionally, this is extremely important for the learners, students, if you are planning for a job in public sector undertakings or higher education in IITs or in other institutions with scholarship, you have to do well in the gate exam. So how do you prepare in any competitive exam? Okay, the first thing is that you should have a deeper understanding of the basics. For these, since many of the NPTEL courses are basically created by the senior faculty members from IITs who were once upon a time question paper centers in the gate, so they know to what extent you should be studying. So many of the courses will cover the basic fundamentals of your topics that are to be covered in your gate. Okay, so we have done syllabus math. It's not that you have to go to the each and every say video and find out which video actually deals with the particular topic. That job we have done through a syllabus mapping that will show. Once you study, then comes your it will be solving the previous year question paper. We have tried to provide you a support by providing a gate paper solutions video solution. It is based on the topic or on a year basically that is available. Additionally, before the exam, you may also like to take mock test that we usually do it for any before any competitive exam. For this, we have also provided a platform where you can actually come and take three hours of mock test and get a score out of 100. What is your score? Additionally, if you have got certain doubts, who will clarify your doubts? NPTEL is always there to support. For this, we are providing support for online assistance to mentor that is to PMRF scholars who are providing you support in your data examination related queries. We have created a syllabus mapping for 10 disciplines that disciplines are given. Let us go to the gate portal and see it ourselves how it works. Okay, so if you just go to the gate portal, you'll find, okay, this is the right hand side. This button, you just click here, you'll find gate syllabus mapping. What is gate syllabus mapping? We just get a say we are talking about civil engineering. Under civil engineering, if you are a student of senior civil engineering and aspiring to do well in the gate paper, then these are the paper that have to study. Say, I am talking about, I am now interested to learn a deeper understanding of the transportation engineering. What are the topics that have to study? These are the topics under which if I am interested to say now study traffic engineering, which are the video lectures in NPTEL talks about all this. These links are provided here. Similarly, for any other topics, you'll be able to see the topic link. So you don't have to break your head, spend a lot of time in going through the complete bunch of videos. All jobs have been done and we have provided precisely, okay, to save your time. Then comes what you said about the video solution. If you want to see the video solutions of the previous semester, then let us go to the civil engineering only. In civil engineering, select here the year or talk. If you say year, select say 2021, state 2. The questions on the arms video solutions have been provided. That is how we can find out discipline wise, year wise, session wise, your solution, video solution. What else we said about the mock practice stage? This is available here. You can take a mock test. Similarly, live mentoring sessions are also available to support you in your doubt clearing session. So gate portal, you can always encourage your students, particularly the faculty members. If someone is there, you can always encourage the students to make best use of the gate portal. Not only for gate exam, but also this will give a deeper understanding of them for your regular studies also. This was all about gate portal. Then comes NPTEL class. You might have seen that in a Python course, it was written self-paced. What is that self-paced course? In Python, suppose it was a 12-week course. NPTEL, once it is offering the course, it offers in January and say July. It takes about three months to complete that course. Now, suppose you are quite smart, you can complete the course in a desert time. In that case, this is the practice where you will be getting a chance to complete the course as per your own pace and time. That is, if you want to complete a 30-hour course within, say, 30 days or even 15 days, you are most welcome to do that. You can do that. What is what you have to do? You have to access the content. The regular assignments then come for the final exam and the final exam is conducted not on a selected date in a semester, but every week exams are conducted. So you have a flexibility like when you can actually join into the course, how many days you want to complete the course and when you want to write the exam. Everything is flexible. What courses will you offer in NPTEL class? It's not only the regular MOOCs that we offer, but we also offer some of the, you can say, courses which are live and blended courses or short-term and long-term training programs. Maybe on a particular software, on a particular system, all these things and these courses, unlike NPTEL courses which are curriculum based and offered by IIT faculty, here these courses, which are offered any time of the year, these courses are offered not only by IIT faculties, but also by industry professionals. And they are not curriculum based. These could be as small as two to four hours of duration to few months duration. So all flexibilities are there in terms of duration, number of, say, when I can take, when I can write the exam, all flexibilities are available. So it is not only coming from IIT faculties, but also industry professionals are contributing in this program. But yes, it comes to the cost. That is accessing the contents, NPTEL contents are not free. Depending on the course content, certain amount is charged. That if you go to the course page, elan.nptl.sc.in, you'll be able to see what all things are available here and what is the cost associated with this. Okay, say introduction to machine learning, Python for data science. If you want to take this course from the NPTEL class platform, you'll have to go to this page and you have to pay 1000 rupees. Okay, and the benefit comes here is that you can start this course anytime and complete it as per your convenience. Okay, this was all about NPTEL class. We talked about this difference between NPTEL and NPTEL class already. Then comes another important point, internship for the topers. What is this internship for the topers? Here, this is a special privilege for the learners. That is, if any of the students are post-stopper, NPTEL provides an opportunity for the post-stoppers to do internship in IITs or IASC under the same post-faculty. What do you have to do? Do you have to apply separately? No. If you are a propper and if the faculty is available to take the intern, we from our NPTEL side will write back to you. Saying that if you are interested, give your consent. Okay, during the consent taking phase, you will be submitting three documents. That is the ratio, your statement of purpose. That is what you intend to review the internship phase and your last two semester grades. Depending on all these documents, these all documents will be carrying certain. The faculty will select a few students for the internship. Two will be offering a later. Now, with this later, the faculty, the student will be travelling to a particular institute. Say the student is selected for an internship in IIT Delhi. So the student will travel to IIT Delhi. Or maybe we try to provide an accommodation in the hostel, which the charges has to be borne by the student. But the student will get a chance to interact with the faculty, interact with the research group and do an internship of 4 to 12 weeks at IIT Delhi. If the course is from IIT Delhi. Okay. After they complete the course, they will be getting a certificate on submission of the internship people. And a token, say stipend will be provided. 5000 rupees is paid towards the stipend for 4 weeks internship. For 8 weeks, it is 10,000 rupees and so on. So the stipend will be reimbursed after they submit the complete and submit the internship. Okay. Excess instruments. One of the major in IC manufacturing, PLSI. Okay. They are actually offering an internship opportunity for the learners. What is the eligibility criteria? It should be top scorer in some of the courses. Primarily, they have identified two courses. One is basic electrical circuits. And either analog circuits or analog ICs. If you complete these two, then you are eligible. But if you have done certain other courses like circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-varying electrical networks, based log-loop and power management, you can discuss by six semester. Then you get added at one place. Once you complete these courses, we forward your names to the Texas Instruments. You will be conducting an interview and based on your performance in the interview, you will be selected to enter the internship there. Okay. If you want to get further details, please go to this particular page. You will be getting further details. What are these courses? By which time you have to complete. And if the course is already open for enrollment, all these details. Okay. Next comes soft scale. We understand having a knowledge of the particular course is not adequate. Get a job. You really need to know how to prepare a good resume. How to make use of best use of the social media platform. Say search for the jobs. How to prepare for the internship. First, how to know. It's important to know what are the shortcomings you need. Okay. And how to improve on that. What these NPTEL offers two variations of soft skill training. One is of one week and another is of 15 days, two weeks. During which you will be conducting your employability assessment test, your language test, English language test will be conducted. Then there will be interactive session with the trainers who will tell you, okay, what are your shortcomings and how to improve on that. Then there will be online mock interviews to tell you, okay, what are the common questions? Maybe how to answer to that. All these things will be part of the soft skill training of one week or two weeks duration. Okay. During this phase, it's not only the interactive session. There will be homework assignment also is to be undertaken. And at least 80% attendance is required in this program to get a certificate. Okay. And you can see the number of students who have already completed the mock trainings. And after the completion of the mock training, soft skill training, what is the feedback given by the student? So the first student hours, this if he tells that NPTEL provided me one of the best opportunities to improve my communication and presentation. Which is truly helpful for me. Am I getting my interview? So such things you can also actually take benefit by participating in this. If your college is interested to impart the soft skill training, they can write back to us for the possible organization of this training. But the important point is that student must have attended some of the NPTEL courses. Now, as the SPOC has rightly pointed out in the beginning of the lecture that NPTEL always strives to release the gap between what is needed by the industry and what is coming out from the college. Okay, there is always a gap because of the changes in the technology that takes place regularly in the industry. So we are associated with our industry partners, a fun different format. Not only they give us inputs on the course development, but also they jointly participate in the course creation process. Also, they provide lectures, specialized lectures to give how the learners should prepare for the job market, leadership qualities, how to develop, maybe what the different trains that are available in the industry. All these points that you can see specialized invited talks are given by different experts from the industry. And we are currently connected with about more than about 80 industries from both from government and private. It's not only IT sector, you can see a complete spectrum of the areas from where these industries are coming, whether it's oil or you can say power transmission, research and development, shipbuilding, mining, material industry, manufacturing sector, all segment of people are connected with us as industry partners. And they have been conducting live session for the benefit of our learners. Additionally, some of these industries and a few philanthropist individuals, they are supporting by giving their CSR initiative to their CSR industry. They provide certain fund to NPTEL to support the requirement of needed students. Particularly, some of the students from local chapter colleges might be very interested to take the courses, but they can really cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees that we charge. In that case, if the college feels that okay, the candidates environment is changing after verification of the authenticity of financial status, they can recommend their name of the students and we try to provide 50% fee waiver for those students. The criteria is that the college has to be local chapter and they have to recommend the name after satisfying themselves that the student needs financial support. Initially, during the exam registration, the students will be paying the full fees and this study, but if they complete the course, get a certificate, then 50% fee will be refunded back to the reimbursement. More than 1.4 lakh students from peer to peer facilities have already received these benefits. This comes from our industry partners. Translation, I have shown you in the rerun course page that you have got transcripts in English as well as some of the translated version of the transcripts are available in different Indian regional languages. This is a new initiative on part of the ministry. We really want to convert each of these lectures into different Indian languages. For this first we are creating the English transcript and we are requesting the experts from different colleges who have got knowledge of that particular subject and has a good understanding of the local language. If they are interested, they can join hands with NPTEL in converting some of these translated English transcripts into their regional languages. This is a paid one paid job, but we definitely aren't the faculty members who are competent to teach or a particular has a good knowledge of that particular subject. And as you can see good graphs of the local language to join in this initiative and take this forward. We are currently working with different these 11 languages as some is being called a Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odiya, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi. Okay, these are the languages we are working. If you are interested, please get in touch with us. Whatever we do, we always published the stories, activities that we do to our social media handles. We are present everywhere whether it's LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. You can always see our activities. What are the learners are saying about NPTEL, how they have benefited. All these stories are published here. You can always, you can always follow these handles and get updates on them. Also the post stoppers that we talk about whether it's a domain scholar or not. We always provide them, recognize their effort and give them a memory on completion of their domain or say on becoming a NPTEL star, which they can proudly show to the outside world on their achievement. We also conduct a week long laboratory workshop during which Monday to Friday the learners at batch of 30 to 40 will be travelling to a particular city in that particular institute. They will be conducting two experiments per day and on Saturday they will be actually taking an exam. Now here it's not that whatever is done in your policy is also done here. There are certain specialized experiments are being done. So if you feel that when you just take what are the workshops coming and if you feel that this student should be exposed to that particular workshop, so which is not conducted in your institute, you can always enquire for them and the charges for attending the lab workshop is a very token one in charge. 200 rupees they have to pay to NPTEL, however they have to take care of their accommodation and food expenses. Once we provide, we try to provide accommodation in the hostels of IITs or the institute, the charges could be 200 to 300 rupees per day that they have to bear. Now comes to local chapter, we will first go through that. To become a local chapter, you don't really need a building or a specialized room. Only the interest and later from your college head of the institution is what is required to become a local chapter. And just go to the NPTEL.hc.in local chapter page and you'll be getting the details of how to become a local chapter. Join as a local chapter, you'll be given the details. Join as a local chapter here. It will give you the list of information, what all things you have to submit. Once you submit this information, we'll create a local chapter page for you and you can say all the activities of the local chapter will be reflected there. What are the benefits you want to become a local chapter? The benefits are first thing, all whatever you say is a 60,000 hours of video that we have created. You can send your hard days, get the contents copied from us and put it in your e-library. So that the students, if they want to refer to any of the videos, they don't have to come to YouTube or NPTEL portal. They can directly see the contents from there. Then all the activities that are done on the NPTEL portal, the details are available to the single point of contact and the contact and the dashboard is always updated with this information. So the single point of contact will be having complete information. How many students from the college are being NPTEL? What is their status? Their hall ticket, their results, everything will be published through that. Then if there are needy students, the college will be able to ask for the fee waiver for the needy student. They will be able to allocate some of the faculty members to act as a mentor for the student so that they are able to support the students as a first level of installation point. If someone is not able to contact IITs, faculties, then the faculty from your college can become a mentor and help the student. And if there are a good number of students taking the exam and you do not have an exam center near to your home or near to your college, definitely you can request for a local exam center. For this it is required that you should have about 200 people interested to write the exam on a particular date. Then if your faculty who is acting as a mentor, if the mentees are doing well, then the mentor gets a recognition and also based on the performance of the local chapter students, the college is also recognized. And the top 100 colleges based on the performance of the students are felicitated during the workshop that we conduct after every exam results are declared in four different jobs. So that is the recognition comes to the local chapter. We have got local chapters spread across the length and length of country whether it's the unientitary or state everywhere we have got some or other local chapters. The numbers might be varying from state to state depending on the number of students or the population or the number of colleges. Currently we are interacting with more than 5,300 local chapters. The first local chapter recognition comes with even we have got local chapters even outside of India also. There are about 48 local chapters which are situated outside the country. Once the local chapter, we say that local chapters are the plots we are at. So the maximum participation in the NPTEL comes from the local chapter and that number is above. Currently touching is very close to 90% enrollment comes from the local chapter. The credit primarily goes to the SPOC and definitely the administration of the colleges who value these courses and encourage their students to enroll into these courses. Once a college becomes a local chapter, the first recognition is active local chapter. What is that? If there are at least 25 candidates writing for the exam in a semester and if 50% of them that is 13 students are certified pass in the exam then you call them. That is the active local chapter. That is the first recognition. And for the new local chapter, the solution is that that we talked about during the great transfer also. Initially you can always ask them to take top skill or English courses. Later on you can expose them on the programming courses or skill based courses. Always encourage them to do some maybe domain courses, complete the domains within say second or third year itself. Ask them to explore eight portals which will give a deeper foundation knowledge of the courses. Initially they can choose to take rerun courses. Having a mentor locally will definitely help the learners. And if you can ensure that you have a timetable in which there is a store when the faculty, mentor faculty will be interacting with the students on NPTEL activities. That will be good. And please ensure that since NPTEL timelines are provided almost one year in advance, please do not put any college activity around NPTEL exam date. Because the students will be busy not only on exam date but maybe one or two days before in brushing up their studies. Mentors are given certificate as we said based on the performance of the mentees. Each mentee gets a point that is if the score of the student is 90 plus they get 20 points. If they are edit silver they get 8 points and so on. And if the mentor whoever is mentee they are mentoring a number of students. If the cumulative total of mentee points are 10 at least then they get a mentor certificate. With this I will stop at this point and since there are no questions I will stop at this point and hand over the stage 2 by SPOC. If you feel that there are some questions from your end we will respond to that. Otherwise you will take it. Over to you sir. Thank you sir for your valuable speech and valuable information towards NPTEL courses and users of its certifications. Now I hope all our students and faculty have got a clear idea about enrolments and importance of the NPTEL courses and especially about in terms of the internships and placements, higher educations, about ready transfers and transcripts and mentoring. Thank you for addressing all these points sir. Special thank you sir for addressing about the fee we are also. And thank you for your encouragement for getting certifications from GNI students and faculty and also shown maximum enrolments in the NPTEL this time. Thank you sir. Madam shall I continue? Well-recreased session. Yes please. Thank you. On behalf of my entire management convey my special thanks to today's resource person and guest speaker. Professor Shiv Shankar Das senior manager NPTEL IIT Madras and J Sree madam NPTEL local chapter team IIT Madras and also other NPTEL members IIT Madras for your continued support. And thanks to our management for organizing NPTEL workshops given opportunity to conduct in our college in association with IIT Madras. Special thanks to our beloved chairmen Sardar Tharvinder Singh Kohli sir and vice chairmen Sardar Gagandeep Kohli Singh sir and managing director Dr Harvinder Singh Saini sir and director K Venkat Rao sir, Gurudanak institutions, joint director, Professor P. Parthasarthi sir and associate director Dr. Rishi Siles sir, head of the placements and Dean RND and HODs, coordinators from various departments, faculties and students and other participants. Thank you all. Finally once again thanks to the NPTEL team IIT Madras for giving opportunity to organize NPTEL awareness e-workshop and making this event a grand success. Thank you one and all. Thank you. J Sree, J Sree may ask the technical team to stop the livestream. J Sree madam, sir shall I stop the session now.