 Good afternoon and welcome back. I will now request my team. Let me briefly introduce them to you Sajjan, I don't know whether you have seen him Sajjan Kumar Dixit is the chief manager of my studio team They undertake all Recordings for MOOCs courses. They undertake operations of a view across the country various remote centers Some of you are involved with remote center work Would know that you are to do a lot of testing of connectivity and your own established Equipment at your place, etc. So he is the one who has set up all procedures. He has set up a studio I don't know the real photographs of that studio to show Maybe you can compile them tonight and tomorrow we can show it Sushant has been also with the team Is actually what I call in the army terms twice your second in command. So whenever Sajjan is missing Sushant does all the activities As you would be aware each one of your institutions would have Technical people on whose competence and experience we all rely So whether it is running the labs whether handling an equipment or whether handling a facility is what is required In most places in academic institutions particularly technical institutions There is an unfortunate tendency to underrate the work done by the technical and administrative people I jokingly say that in an academic institution You should either be a faculty member or you should have a roll number if you are neither then you are not counted Whereas the institute activities actually run because of a large support staff. We are very proud of our teams You have seen the workshop team that you have done all of us need to learn from them They are not teachers like us. So don't expect cozy explanations as we are all used to But they do their job damn well and that is how we survive Good evening myself Sushant Raktade. I'll be talking to you about how you can use AVU for your interactions towards it and How you can from where you can download and What steps you need to use to start an AVU interaction So how many of you have you know attended a AVU session Most of them all of them and How many of you are from a remote center that is associated with IITB not many Okay, so those who are from the remote centers of IITB We have been conducting AVU sessions at those remote centers So you guys have that facility at your center to conduct an AVU session But if you don't you can also do it at your center with through a laptop or through a PC First of all you need to download AVU from this website. That is www.nmeict.ac.in slash enemy ICT You have a downloads Button there if you go to that downloads button you will see Download AVU classroom version 3.7 in that there are guidelines to How to set up the AVU classroom at a remote center? But it will also give you an idea of how to do the interaction sessions at the remote centers So if you download this AVU classroom 3.7 You will get a download here. So when you click on that it will install the AVU version 3.7 on your machine But right now we are using the AV version 5 So what it will do is when you download that AVU classroom and when you click on that AVU classroom Like this that it will be displayed like this AVU classroom So when you double click that it will automatically update it to the latest version that is the 5.0 And it will show an icon like this AVU So first of all you need a laptop with a minimum 4 GB RAM and a bandwidth which should be a stable 2 MPPS bandwidth So first you will need when you are going to conduct a session You will have to tell us that you are going to conduct this session on this day and this time So what we will do is we will create a virtual classroom inside AVU At that time and date that will session will be accessible to you and your students So after that on that day you just have to inform your students that you have to give them the login and passwords And you have to start your AVU at your end Your you will be given the unique username and passwords for AVU that will be given from us and You will have to select IIT Bombay T10KT server and you put in your username and password We will give you teacher privileges so that you are the teacher and others are the students Once you put in your username password you can click login So once you log in you will see the screen and you will see a list of classes That are being conducted at that time. So right now there is only one class that is testing class as an example So you will see your class name and you will see a join now button here So you will have to select the click on that join now button and it will take you into that class So now you have entered that class. So you are the teacher. So you are the teacher So my name is this testing teacher So it will appear here at the top and the other students that are logged in they will appear at the bottom How many students that you have so but you have entered the classroom But you have not started your audio and video streams for that you need to click on the video button here when you click on this there is a option to select camera The audio bandwidth that you want to produce it and the microphones So you might not know what camera you have connected you what you know There are very different audio systems in the PC. So to check that there is a check audio video button here So when you click on that it will give you some instructions to test your microphone. So you can Click test and When you speak it will be get recorded and you can hear that sound again So if it's not been recorded that means the selection here is not proper So you can see if you see that there are two or three real tech and microphone options here So when you select the proper option there and test then it you will be able to record your sound and that will confirm that your Audio has been recorded in a view Then you can test speakers A view classroom is a simple user friendly video conferencing software. You can see that your speakers are working fine. It provides wide opportunity to an experienced fact And there is a bandwidth test that This is very important because if your bandwidth is not proper then your audio interactions will not be proper And there will be a lot of breakage in the audio. There will be freeze videos So that has to be minimum to mbps always at every time So if you click on that it will check your bandwidth and it will show you that if your bandwidth is excellent It is about three mbps if it is below that then you have to contact your system and to shouldn't tell them that you'll have You need minimum stable two mbps line on your laptop or wherever you are conducting that session Because without that the session will not be proper So then there is a camera option here You will get all the cameras that we have connected if you're connected an external camera It will show you the external camera here now this PC is I hang only the USB camera here So it is showing me USB 2.0 camera So once that is done you can just say if it's it is okay, and then here you can select the camera The microphone that you have connected This record session is just for local recording actually records all the session Inside the AVU server you want that you can just click on record or if you don't want you just take it off Then click start. So once you start your video appear on the right hand side top corner This is your video what is being published to other students You want to see like how it is just started and after that you can just close it from here So that it doesn't come in between there because there's so much a little space in here You can always get it back by clicking on the video button here So you are going to give a presentation. So you'll have PPT's or PDF's or slides like that What you can do is you can download those PPT's or PDF's in the AVU Through which you can display those PDF and PPT's to all the students. So there is a library button here There is a upload option when you click on upload you can browse your PPT select it and Upload it right now. We suggest that you keep your slides or PPT's size a bit smaller minimum 5 20 MPPS is acceptable, but it depends on your bandwidth How much bandwidth you have to upload that file it will upload but it will take a longer time But so if the file size is smaller, it will take not more time to upload. So once you upload that file It will show up in this list So for example, I'm clicking that I have already uploaded it You double click on it your PPT will appear. So like this your PPT will appear So now while giving presentations Everybody knows that we have a habit of you know There is if you click a mouse it will go to the next page or you will have the keyboard keys to go previous and backwards But in AVU you don't have that shortcut facility instead of that There is a buttons here this is forward and backward. So you need to use that For forward and backward or you can just go to any page wherever you want like 14 We'll skip to that page. You can come back to some previous page also like this you can You can also upload a PDF files. You can also upload PPT files and If you want your users that they should be able to download that file There is a option here. There is If you allow this Then the user at their end they can just right click on that PPT and download that file So you need to select this option to allow them to download Otherwise, if you don't want you can just switch it off and There are many more other options here to zoom to fit to screen and The most important thing the pointer so right now You are seeing this pointer here But when you are conducting a AVU session the students won't be able to see this pointer What you are seeing right now the students won't be able to see it for that There is a option called pointer here mouse pointer If you click on that then it will give you a small red dot So that will move along with your pointer so that this pointer is also visible at other centers So they can follow you Also, there are annotations available you can highlight you can write something There is a raise option So this is about the presentation. There is also a whiteboard facility available in This for the whiteboard facility to work you need a take note Which can be attached to a laptop or a PC from where you are going to give the AVU sessions So what that does is whatever you write on that word? It's like a blackboard only whatever you write on that blackboard it is visible here on this whiteboard So you can write or if you want to draw any diagrams or anything you can write on this So this whiteboard facility is also available and there are you know, you can change the color of lines You can change the font and there are other options here where you can erase it also So this works like a blackboard Virtual blackboard you already have some shapes that you can directly But so these are the documents and the whiteboard options that are available here you can Switch between these two anytime. So when you switch to document the document automatically gets reflected at The student and if you switch to whiteboard it automatically gets reflected at the student and Then there is also a desktop sharing option So it's like if you have a software or anything that it is not you know insert in AVU You want to show it on your PC what you can do is this you can use this desktop sharing option Where you just click on desktop and select desktop sharing Or else there is a software You can also you know share that application itself only that application not the whole desktop So there are two options here. So I'm selecting screen area and start Desktop sharing so when you start this desktop sharing there automatically a dialog box appears on the student screens And they see your whole desktop. So whatever you do on your desktop that will be visible here So that you can use that that to explain your software or other parts You have to stop desktop sharing if you don't and You can switch in these between these tabs anytime that will automatically gets reflected at the student and Then comes the interaction part So there will be students at their end and if they have a question there if they have a question So they can't tell you that they have a question because you don't see them at the time of presentation So what they do is if they have a question they press the hand raised button there They have a you know this they have the same facility at their end. So this here They have a option of hand raised. So if they click that button, you will see a question mark here So that will tell you those students have a question there and you want to interact with them So you just click on those students. So right now this is a dummy So right click on that student and press start interaction So when you press start interaction That person is gets connected to you but for you to see that you need to go to the video wall button So this video wall button will show you and the student at the same time So this is the student and this is the teacher if you click on the student this video gets full screen So now you are connected to the students and now you can speak to that student and They can speak to you Here you can also, you know the select multiple students now There is only one but you can also select multiple students at the same time They will appear in small boxes around the corner There is one more option like there is a presenter control option So if there are you know students at their end if you want them to present To other students what you can do is you can give them the presenter control and they can you know Upload PPT and they can give the presentation so for that you can just give them the presenter control right you can select them then there is This make presenter option here At the bottom so if you make them presenter they become the teacher and they can upload PPT Is they can give the presentation from their end you become the student for that time You can take back that control also So in between these you know the session which are going on there are options like chat And questions here there is a chat tab. There's a questions tab So what in chat this chat tab is visible to everyone who is connected All the people who are connected they can see the chat they can post some chats So this whatever you post here is seen to you and everybody But if the person wants to ask a question so you can ask them to put the questions in this questions tab So what this does is person will put a question it will appear on this question This will also be visible to everyone and what this can help you with is like if the other center has the same question What he can do is there if a question appears here if he sees that he has the same question He can select that question and vote for it That means that the center has the same question. So he has voted for it So you you will see that Two or three people have the same question and you can later, you know, take it up and answer it then another chat feature is there that You can decide, you know, if you want a specific person to send a specific person a chat So you can just right click and click on private chat. So this private chat what it does is it Only is displayed on that person to whom which you are sending it This is not visible to everyone is only visible to you and the person would you have selected? So you can do this private chat also if you don't want all the people to see that chat Then there is a polling option. So it's like KBC So you post a question and the people have option to select multiple choice answers If you select that and it will automatically give you a bar chart, you know, how many people have answered this? How many people have answered this? So this polling feature is very important Here you can just, you know, create question a multiple choice question Whatever you type a question and you can give multiple choices You can say add choices Then you can type in the choices and click save When you click that save it will display like this And once you want this question to be posted at every student, what you do is you select that question and start polling So what this does is when you press the start polling, the question and with the options appears at that student end And he has the option to select any one of them and post it So what happens when they post it, you just click here and he view results So when you click on that you view results You see how many participants have answered B? How many participants have answered A? How many participants have answered C? So this gives you an instant feedback about your question and the options that you have given And it also shows you the number of students that have answered this question So these are basically the basic work throughout the A-view interaction that you need to know If you are facing any problems regarding the audio issues and you know, there are a lot of times The people don't plug their earphones or plug their headphones properly So there are problems regarding the audios So what you can do tell them is there is a This test option, check audio or video option is always there at their end also You can tell them to check that also Or if you are a remote center and you have that already the facility there You can just contact people here and we will solve that problem But during the session if there are you know audio issues and audio video issues You can just tell them that you please go to that check audio video option And that will automatically test their audio video and you can just tell them that check this And after that you just come again and log in again So that will solve the audio video problem Okay, there is one eco test option here There is If you click that you may talk something along with this audio Your voice will be played back after 10 seconds If you do not hear this pre-recorded audio in the playback, there is no echo So that this is another confirmation Regarding if your audio is properly connected It automatically shows you So that's The basic work through of AVU if you have any questions right now you can dispose or Live quiz up is not active This live quiz is not active It's not actually that tab is right now not active. So that's why I have skipped that How can we practice by doing this you can download this software from this the website that I have shown you You just go through that the settings and all and you also have that AVU guidelines file on that on our website No, but how do they practice because they need a server It's a good suggestion First of all, I would like to further add to whatever he has stated that AVU The server end as well as the client end is entirely open source software What he has talked about is the client side which can be downloaded and you can start using But there is a server side which is much more complex Actually, their team have installed that server side here It requires two or three different server instances. So one is a streaming server One is a database server. One is a content server. All of those are managed There is nothing extraordinary about it. You can also install it One problem with the back end server is that the streaming server that we use or AVU uses is still a proprietary software They use Adobe streaming server But as far as the other server instances are concerned, they use MySQL, Mongo and such things which are okay The point I'm making is Those of you who want They can use the AVU facility even within your own institutions For example, you have large classes for first year students You invariably pack them up into 100 or 150 and yet you may have 400 students I have seen everywhere These are taught in batches by different people Now why not select Out of the four teachers The one person who is the best expert on a certain topic And let that person give lecture on that topic to all students Let students assemble in different classrooms We routinely use AVU within IIT Bombay On couple of occasions every year Like the director addresses all newcomers There are 1200 people who are admitted Now instead of putting them in convocation hall They can be put into three or four halls like this where TAs are there And you can actually give a lecture We have done that for several other courses. So this is one you say About practice You require for practicing Three or four partners one of whom will become a teacher the other will be students It is not necessary to set this up Across different locations necessary Although I would take this as one of the early collaborating activities So from amongst you I propose that we form teams Or groups Of say 10, 15, 20 people each Where each one in turn acts as a teacher The other 19 act as 19 groups So imagine that each place there are group of people Even that can be simulated in real life because it is not that at Every college that you come from there is only one participant like you There are places where there are multiple people So all of them can form one group another group at some other place third group at some other place To facilitate this We will actually work out a schedule in the month of April Where we will keep such classrooms by different names Only the collaborating teams have to tell us Which one of them is going to be the coordinator of that collaborative So that coordinator we will designate as teachers And all other members of the teams with respect to IPA as students And we will give you slots so much before you start interacting with the actual participants of the future fdps You can actually interact And examine and perfect each of these facilities We will also participate as students during that slot But not as domain experts, but as technical support So if anybody has a problem The problem can be raised to the teacher through a chat or through audio video interaction And our student will be able to answer that question Okay So we can work out such a thing Do you think this is useful? Okay So I think we our my own ambition is that a view should become the Skype of India So it should become as simple as that And let us see how long it takes It took us quite some time to convince our colleagues in amruta university to open source that software But after they have done that the usage has increased The hackathon for example that is going to be conducted by mh rd on first and second So the coordination between 26 different centers is going to be done using avu This is definitely useful There are two aspects that I would like to stress whenever you have a audio visual interaction. It is like People sitting across here. So there are two aspects to it One is the activity is synchronous So it doesn't matter how far and where you are it appears as if you are at the same place same time So there is a synchronicity Now whenever a synchronous activity happens The activity acquires Spontaneity So if somebody asks a question spontaneously Somebody answers the question spontaneously Asking a question after a lot of thinking and answering it during discussion forum is actually a very different process But spontaneously raising a question and spontaneously answering a question has its own charm and has its own advantage You would have noticed in your own classes many times that suddenly a student asks a question out of the blue And on the spot you are able to think and give an answer or some other student gives an answer Which you could not have done had you thought for two days about what question to ask and what answer to Spontaneity is not just beautiful. Spontaneity also has a whole lot of creativity implied in it Spontaneity is what we miss in online Avu interaction will bring that spontaneity So with this I think we'll close for the session. I would like to thank Sushant and Sajjan. See you in the big hand