 Hello. Hello. Once you say that you are alive, then I can start the session. We are already live. Okay. A very good morning to one and all present here. On behalf of Soundaria Institute of Management and Science, I am N.P.T.L. The extension of A.T. Madras. So we are having a live session today on N.P.T.L. Awareness Program. On this occasion, I would take a privilege to welcome our CEO, Mr. Kirtan Kumar, and his absentia. I would like to welcome our principal, Dr. Vasu sir, for the session and the key resource person, Mr. Shiv Shankar, the session and all the faculty fraternity who have joined this session and my moving friends. Before we start, there is a small quick view that I would like to give why we are having this N.P.T.L. And nowadays, why this N.P.T.L. program has become one of the most promising program and one of the most important program which upskills the knowledge of the students in various domains. As we all know that the Swayam program is initiated by Government of India and it is designed to achieve the three principles of education policy via access equality and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best of all the learning resources including both bridging and digital divide. Keeping that in mind, the Swayam N.P.T.L. has the four key quadrants that is having a video lecture, having a special prepared readiness material, the downloaded material, the quizzes, the assessment and so on. There are lot of agencies or lot of the educational partners who are helping them in doing this program very effectively. One being an AICT, N.P.T.L., UGC, CEC, NCRT, NIOS, IIMB, NICTR. All these knowledge partners are helping not only in the age group of the students from 10 to 50 but it is a student group of 10 to 70 to 80 age people are resisting for N.P.T.L. So it's a great privilege for students and an opportunity for the students to come up in such a way that not only with their curriculum but with the courses which is well structured and well designed by the team, it will definitely help students to pursue their career in a great height. So having that in mind, we the Sound Area Institute of Management and Science are very happy to associate with Swayam N.P.T.L. in the year 2019 and hence we are continuing since 4 years. So further about the course and other things, I would be very happy to introduce my principal who will be giving you a glimpse about the institution of Sound Area and why and how we started the N.P.T.L. program. So it would be a great opportunity for all of us. So let's know, connect and understand what is an N.P.T.L. program through the principal as well as to the resource person of the day. Thank you sir, over to you. Very good one to all the dignitaries, students. Sound Area Institute of Management was established in the year 2007 and since then, since Sound Area Institute of Management, Science and Management has been striving towards attaining quality education that was the vision of our chairman, Shree Sound Area P. Manjappa and also been ably supported by our CEO, Shree Kirtan Kumar sir. This program of N.P.T.L. has been very seriously taken by our department in or by all the departments, especially under the steward leadership of FECA MAM under TEAL. We were able to establish the Swayam N.P.L. Local Chapter 2910 in the year 2019. Since then, 300 plus students have taken part in the Swayam N.P.L. program every year about 45 to 60 percent of the students complete the certification program out of which many have completed the program with the allied silver and silver medal. Along with the students, faculty have also actively taken part. We are between the 78th and 84th position Pan India since 2019. So all the credit goes to our faculty members and students who have taken these programs seriously. As per the UGC norms, Swayam has been very nicely implemented and taken care by all our departments. I wish all the best to our students to understand the concept of N.P.T.L. and its various programs offered. They can take the advantage of it. Apart from the regular degree, these certifications will add value for their skill as well as for their employment. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Now, I request our resource person of the day, Shiv Shankar Das to take over the session. Good morning to Principal Sir, SPOC Madam, the faculty members and the students who are connected to this program to YouTube session. During this, this is the program which has been organized in consultation with Sondra Jain Institute. Let me share my screen and then we move forward. This Swayam N.P.T.L. awareness workshop is being organized in association with Sondra Jain Institute of Management and Science at Bangalore. During this one-hour talk, actually one-hour is too less if you really want to talk about the N.P.T.L. and different initiatives taken by it. So what we will do, we'll just take whatever the minimum time is required to just hurriedly go through all the programs. And also, I'll be looking at the YouTube channel chat boxes. Whenever the questions are coming, we'll be taking parallel with the questions as we propose. Okay. Now, during this talk, we'll be talking about the N.P.T.L. and Swayam online certification program, very transparent mechanism how the domain certification can be obtained in terms of opportunities for the course stoppers. The SOPS still training that N.P.T.L. imparts for the benefit of the learners. GetPortal is a very useful portal particularly for the students who are aspiring to write data examination, the faculty development program, and other initiatives taken by N.P.T.L. that we'll talk about. Then N.P.T.L. local chapter and N.P.T.L. self-test courses. These are the brief outline of the talk. N.P.T.L. which started in 2003, we can aim to provide a high quality affordable education to the learners was initiated by seven older I-80s and ISC Bangalore with financial support from the Ministry of H.R.D.D, the Ministry of H.R.D. and now renamed as Ministry of Education Department of Education. During the first phase, that is 2003 to 2013, we have been primarily focusing on creating content which will be made available in just video format or there are some courses in the web format that is there are video type of booklets that were created for a particular course. So during 2003 to 2014 or early 2013 we just concentrated on developing or recording the contents created by N.P.T.L. We can say faculty delivering the lectures in the classrooms of I-80s and making it available for the outside learners. That's how we improved. But from 2014, the course level certification program was initiated. How it happened actually? Now during this period, earlier one thing I could go through the course contents which is from N.P.T.L and learn it from the outside world that you can see I have learned this course from I-80s and this is my certificate which really shows the level of my understanding on that particular subject. So from 2014 aligning with the global trade when online certification programs were coming in a big way, we also changed our strategy and started offering course level certification. During 2003 to 2023, giving this 20 years tenure, we have actually provided or created more than 2000 unique courses. These unique courses are available through the YouTube channel of N.P.T.L. that is N.P.T.L. HRD as well as you can see the number of subscription in the YouTube that is 4.5 million plus YouTube subscriptions are available right now. As well as if you see the viewership is more than 1.6 billion. How much contents we have created? It's not only 3000 lectures or the course contents which is almost equivalent to more than 62000 hours of lectures. Many of these contents are available with English subtitles also. So from 2014 we are not only offering the courses for certification purpose but we are also organizing such workshops which are being organized today so that these contents are being utilized by the universities and autonomous colleges for the credit transfer. Now once you say that we are offering the courses under the N.P.T.L. that is IIT's and ISE's are offering the courses under the N.P.T.L. program there should be a platform through which we should be offering. Now the Rekha Memo is already describing the national coordinator who are offering the courses spanning the school children to the higher education sector that is high end researchers. So similarly here we have got 19 national coordinators who are targeting for the school children out of school children undergraduate and post graduate studies. So there is some agency which is targeting a particular segment of learners. Now N.P.T.L. is the national coordinator primarily for offering the courses from undergraduate and post graduate engineering sector. But since each of the IIT's they have basic science humanities and social sciences management disciplines we do offer courses from all these disciplines also. We started at only seven IIT's and ISE Bangalore eight institute now we have spanned our horizon and we have incorporated many different institutions the new IIT's other in universities they are under this fold and they are also offering the courses not only within this amput but we are also offering the courses from health sector as well as different laws courses are also offered. Say once you say that okay we are offering the online certification and it started in 2014 which is the format how do we offer we offer the courses in the MOOCs format that is massive open online courses which clearly says how the actually delivery takes place. The massive means that means the number of students who can enroll in a course is not limited by the big and modern classroom. Okay since it is an open online course that means the contents are delivered in an online mode to internet and anyone who is having an interest and internet connectivity should be able to access this content that means the number of students is not limited you can have hundreds or hundreds of thousands of students enrolling in a particular course. Now the courses they are no way different from your regular classroom based courses that means it has a fixed syllabus it has a start date end date every week that certain amount of contents or videos are released there are other activities that we talk about in the four quadrant approach that means what all activities that takes place in a regular university system all the features of the regular university classroom features are available in the MOOCs format also and the model is triple A means anyone can take this course do it at their convenient time that's any time and from anywhere. So irrespective of what a person is doing currently age, gender anyone should be able to access this content which are available in the MOOCs format to enter. We follow the four quadrant approach possibly in the next slide it will be clear what are the four quadrants. Courses once we say that we are offering the online courses what should be the timeline we are offering the courses twice in a year aligning with the university system that is either the courses are started in January or in July the January run courses are offered primarily between January to April and the July run courses are offered from July and ends in October all NPTEL courses are offered through the SWIM so they are also called SWIM courses we will also see which are the courses that are forthcoming from July the courses have already started from yesterday 24th onwards and it will be continuing the enrollment process for these the courses which have started on 24th July will close on 31st of July that timelines we will see and what are the courses that we will see in the coming slides so the enrollment for the January and July courses starts in November and May that means for the January run courses by mid of November the enrollment process starts and for the July run courses by mid of May the enrollment process will be open as we said that it follows a triple A model that means enrollment in any courses possible irrespective of any branch of study that means if I am studying say in mining engineering I should be able to join a course from computer science electrical, electronics, civil engineering psychology, economics, management, mathematics whatever it is, whatever subject interests me I should be able to take that course irrespective of what we are studying currently primarily for the currently working the academic calendar that is the students it can be say the learners if they are interested they can join in multiple number of courses it's not only one course they can if they want they can join in 6, 8, 10 courses for learning and the important part is that these courses are absolutely free they can join to the course for learning purpose without paying any fee they are absolutely funded by the ministry of education so no payment is to be made enrollment for joining or joining into the course for learning purpose is absolutely free but if someone is interested to get a certificate after completing the course in that case a separate registration takes place to NPTEL and the certification exam is to be appeared by paying certain fees in the course features we talked about four quartet that we talked about in this slide what are the course duration we know in a semester system also you have three months or four months duration and that is very in terms of the hours also a certain number of hours used to be completed for a particular course now here also we have got in terms of weeks or in terms of hours different variations if we say that ok we have got three variations of courses that is a full semester course is called 30 hours you have got medium type of courses of 20 hours and on a fixed topic specialized topic the courses are offered of 10 hours duration in terms of weeks or duration you can say these are equivalent to 12 weeks 8 weeks or 4 weeks respectively that means a 30-week hours course will be completed in the period of 12 weeks time at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture per week that means we are offering you 2.5 hours of lecture they are not a single lecture of 2.5 hours but they are multiple lectures the maximum duration we expect that we will be giving roughly 30 minutes of lecture in a single module ok so in that case there could be about 6 small videos of half an hour or 20 minutes duration comprising a week's content so once we say that there are 4 quadrants which are the 4 quadrants as we said that 2.5 hours of lecture are being made available these are prerecorded lectures the small video lectures of 2.5 hours they are made available as first quantity now in a classroom in addition to the lecture delivery the faculty will be interacting with the student whether they have understood correctly or not all the students will be asking the question to the teacher so there is a face-to-face interaction takes place on a question-answer session since it is an online course the students are scattered geographically so that feature is naturally not available so the interaction takes place to a web-based interactive forum ok so where the students after going through the video they will be posting their queries and these queries will be answered in a time-bound manner by the faculty and the teaching assistants associated with the course Mr. Shashi Dhar you have asked could you please tell us how to apply for internship in NPTEL yes sir I will be discussing more on these once we come to the internships slide please kindly wait for it ok that the second quadrant is definitely interaction now we say that interaction takes place through the web-based forum now see in addition to that what we try to give a flavour of classroom testing thing like as someone named Pasula Sridhar asked a question about the internship opportunity we took the question and answer so similarly what we do we ask the faculty to come on a YouTube live session like what we are doing today and in the session the students will be posting their queries in the forum which will be figured by the students and will be answered immediately that's how we try to provide some flavour of this interaction additionally we are also engaging the PMRF scholars prime minister research fellow scholars providing support to the students what is the problem solving sessions are periodically conducted by the PMRF scholars so in the fact faculty will be primarily discussing about the theoretical concepts in the lecture what about the problems they will be coming in the assignment weekly assignment so now there should be some guidance to the students on how to solve the problem since if the faculty doesn't have much time to keep much details in how to solve the problems there are PMRF scholars who will be supporting this program all along the program duration every week they will be conducting problem solving session where they will say how to solve similar problems okay then comes supplementary study materials what are the things in addition to in a regular classroom also the teacher may give notes and all same thing is made available here either the text transcript that is whatever the faculty has said in a classroom the same thing is converted into a text and PDF version of the English text transcript are made available for certain courses we are also providing the text transcript in different regional languages read Kannada Tamil Telugu Malayalam Denkali Burya Hindi whatever it is we are trying to provide in regional languages Additionally if the faculty has used four point slide we try to provide that slide so that it helps the learners in rapid revision purpose as well as the faculty may also give certain handwritten notes for free web resources if any Additionally after going through the videos after going through the supplementary study materials and getting all my doubts clarified to web based interactive forum I'll be exposed with self assessment please help me what is that every week in addition to the videos the course instructor will be releasing a set of questions related to that that set of questions are called assignment which is for self assessment purpose 15 to 20 or 10 to 20 questions each with certain weightage the total weightage in say 10, 15, 20 is equivalent to 100 100 marks that means each assignment will be graded that means once I complete the assignment and submit it I should be able to see what is my score out of 100 in that particular assignment and a part of this assignment score will be taken for the certification purpose okay at this point let me just before I move forward to the next slide let me take another question there is a question from Mule Subham any help for get exam from NPTEL let me tell you sir there is a great help we can actually take from NPTEL we'll talk more about this internship and get exam related support from NPTEL in the coming slide kindly bear with us and stay with us till we reach to that stage okay thank you so we talked about the course features so these are the four parts now once we complete that means if I join in a 30 hour course what I'll have I'll have 12 weeks of video contents each week 2.5 hours of lecture after going through the video I'll be asking the questions in the forum I'll go through the supplementary study materials then solve the assignments 12 assignments each of 100 marks okay this is what every week I'll be continued for a 12 week course this will be for 8 as 8 weeks this process will continue now once the course is over now I feel that okay I should be writing the exam since writing the exam that means there should be some arrangement for examination process there is a timeline here in which I have to register so if I have decided that I'll be writing the exam for this particular course I have to register separately within the timeline what are the features of this certification exam for a course enrolment and for learning purpose I can actually learn it from the comfort of my home but for the certification exam the USP of NPTEL is that you have to come to the center it is a center based in person proctor exam okay so the student who is registering for the exam has to come to the center with a valid government identity card and write the exam in the center where are the exam centers? the exam centers are spread across the country and more than 200 cities will conduct the examination the exam usually in most of the cases it is online but for certain courses it is offline the fine difference between these two online and offline is that in an online exam the question and the answer everything takes place in the computer that means we see the questions and we answer the questions also in the computer whereas for the offline exam the questions definitely comes in the questions will be appearing in the computer but definitely the answers for answering the offline papers will be even a conventional answer switch where I have to write using my pen paper okay exams are conducted on three days in a semester two sessions per day that means maximum six exam sessions in a semester that means if I want I can write for six examinations for certifications in a semester many of the times we get a query that I have taken courses whose exams are clashing on the same day there are two courses whose exam dates are clashing do not worry about that register for the exam and if you are registering for the exam using the same email id then in that case you will be given in 4-room session one paper and in the afternoon session second paper and there are many students who are actually writing the exam for six courses in this manner examination as we say for learning purpose if you enroll into the course yes there is no fee attached to that but for the writing the examinations it is it is proctored in-person exam that is certain most associated because NPTEL engages an exam partner will be conducting the exam so as far as our norm since 2014 we are taking 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the course duration that is whether it is 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks the fee structure remains same for general candidates why I am saying general candidates because for the certain category of students like SC, ST and persons with disability every more than 40% disability are permitted to have 50% fee waiver as per norm for these during examination registration they have to provide their course certificate on medical certificate claiming that what is the percentage of disability and get the fee waiver once the exams are conducted whether in online or offline the results are published tentatively within 30 days from the exam ok, certificates what is the issue they are all e-verifiable soft copy of the certificate each certificate will be signed by the institute that is offering the course if the certificate is say the course is offered by IIT Bombay then the certificate will be signed by the IIT Bombay official of NPTEL certificates with DR and QR code so that anyone if you produce that certificate to an agency they should be able to verify the authenticity of the certificate simply by scanning the QR code before we go to the next slide we will take another questions Sir, aren't these certificates beneficial for to get a job? Yes Sir, these are absolutely beneficial I think in the next slide it will be much more clear why we are saying these are beneficial certification criteria now we say that during the entire duration of the course every week we are getting an assignment and each assignment is graded out of 100 ok and then there is a final examination now in the certification you have got certain weightage of final exam and certain weightage comes from the assignment where we see there are certain courses programming in nature say C++, Java, Python very low in such courses there will be three components that is some components will come from the final exam some from the assignment and some from a weightage will come from the non-proper programming examination which will be conducted before the exam on two sessions on a particular day for these particular courses C, C++, Java, Python very low in such courses a particular date will be given to the learners during the day and during the night there are two sessions when the students have to actually appear for a non-proper programming test what does it mean that means the students will be able to take the exam either in their college or their home without anyone checking whether that same person is doing the assignment on so that is non-proper now for non-programming courses there are two components 75% weightage of the final exam is taken for the certification and the remaining 25% comes from the assignments course weekly assignments course but for the programming courses the final exam will carry only 50% weightage and the remaining 50% is between non-programming non-proper programming test and assignment so 50, 25, 25 is the distribution for programming now we say that in both the cases we are saying that 25% weightage comes from the assignment how do we calculate that we will only consider the best 8 assignments course each assignment is dreaded out of 100 that means if you have submitted all 12 assignments we will just say that which are the best 8 assignments course in a 12 week course take an average of that so out of 800 what is the score find out what is the score out of 100 and take directly 25% from there similarly for the 8 weeks and 4 weeks the best 6 or best 3 assignment course are taken once we calculate the average score 25% is directly taken for the certification now say you consider a situation where you have taken a 8 week course and we are considering the best 6 assignment course you have only submitted 4 assignments in that case is it that ok you are not permitted to write the exam we say no that is not the case there are certain other conditions that you have to meet but see how we calculate the average assignment score and how it is deemed to what is the minimum score that you have to obtain to get a certificate say you have submitted only 4 assignments course in that case what we will see that ok 6 was the minimum requirement and you have submitted 4 only so in the remaining 2 assignments you have to see 0 marks that means 4 out of 400 marks will be considered as 4 out of 600 marks so the average score out of 100 will come down and 25% also will be coming down we say that if you score at least 40% marks here that means 10 marks out of 25 is available in the assignment then you get you are eligible to get a certificate provided you get 40% marks in the final exam also that means 30 out of 75 ok we have got 5 points ready that means if that cumulative total is less than 40 we say the candidate is unsuccessful we don't provide any certificate not even a participation certificate scores between 40 to 59 we say you have completed the course successfully 60 onwards 60 to 100 we provide A we can say 75 to 89 this indicates the score is between 60 to 100 for 60 to 74 this only particular this elite word will be written whereas between 75 to 89 in addition to elite word we will be having a silver you can say bad symbol ok for 75 to 89 4 this will be elite silver for 90 to 100 it will be elite gold gold medal symbol will be printed onto the certificate additionally if your score is within top 1% or 2% or 5% of the scores we will be having a proper seal also printed onto the certificate ok how does the sample certificate looks like this is how it look like elite what is that that means the score is between 60 to 100 the candidates name photograph the course name distribution of assignment marks out of 25 proper exam out of 75 here you should get at least 10 here you should get at least 30 individually to get a certificate if you get say here 20 out of 25 but here if you get say less than 30 you don't get a certificate similarly if you get 75 out of 75 here but if you do not get 10 here out of 25 you don't get a certificate then how many people wrote the exam and how many people actually certified here is written the course when it was offered which institute offered the course your roll number QR code all these informations are available and the certificate will be at the logo of NPTEL and square indicating the swim important points to remember is that NPTEL will be identifying the learners by your unique email id we don't say identify you by your name because if you see there are 30 say 25 lakhs 30 lakh students and rolling into the courses so there would be many people by the same name so we just going by the unique email id so during the runtime of the course if you change your email id then all data related to that previous email id is lost but you should always once you have joined NPTEL course continue with the same email id check exam dates beforehand before unloading into the course if you want to go for the certification exam you should not choose a course courses which has got same exam date that means more than 2 courses should not be chosen which will has got same exam date same email id is to be used for course enrollment and exam dates since these certificates are to be produced for the credit transfer or for the prospective employers for job internship or job opportunities so you should always upload a formal passport photograph during the exam registry this is important many of the courses will require the assistance of users of calculators but kindly note that physical calculators are not permitted to be used in the examination course and you have to use the tcs app to online on screen calculators you can just google search that tcs and online on screen calculator I have just reproduced the link here it will take you to the calculator page and you can see this is available so try to make best use of these during the entire assignment state so that you are thoroughly conversant with how to use the on screen calculator if your college is planning to take say multiple number of students will be writing the exam it's good that if you actually implement before that how many people are going to write the exam this is just to help in planning the logistic for the examination timeline now we are saying that we are opening the courses from january to january and july starting now we have got 3 variations of courses 4 weeks, 18th and 12th now we understand that many of the university that is starting their semester in the early phase of july someone will be starting little later so just to help the people who are starting their semester little late we are segregating the courses 4 weeks and 8 weeks courses from 2 sets the first set of 4 weeks first set of 8 weeks and all 12 weeks courses will start from 24 or rather started from 24th of july yesterday onwards it has started the enrollment process for all these courses will end by 31st of july by 5pm ok now the second set of 4 weeks and second set of 8 weeks will start exactly one month later 121st of August and the enrollment will close on the same day now courses started every week your video lecture, supplementary, study material, assignments they are available now the 4 weeks course will be completed within a month's time this will be completed within 2 months time so the first 4 set of 4 weeks and 8 weeks will have an examination on 24th of September on 2 sessions morning between 9 to 12 and afternoon between 2 to 5 ok so if I take 2 courses from this group I should be able to write 2 courses here now comes your 3 courses that is 12 weeks 4 weeks and 8 weeks they will be having a combined exam on October 28th and 29th again 2 sessions per day that means here 4 sessions here 2 sessions if someone which is to write maximum examinations for certification purpose then how many courses they can actually take 2 in the 24th September and 4 during October 28th and 20th that means 6 exams can be written ok now one has you have got a fixed date when you can actually write the examination or register for the examination the timelines are given as August 14 is the timeline for encoding into the first set of 4 weeks first set of 8 weeks and all 12 weeks course the second set of 4 weeks and 8 weeks the last date is 11th of September that is without paying any date however if you want if you are say compelled to say take the late free process then 18th August and 15th September is the timeline where you have to pay extra charges and complete the exam so if you have already decided to enroll into the course and doing further certification do not delay further register so that NPTEL knows how many people will be writing and is in a position to provide necessary logistic admin and ensure that you get an exam centre closer to your place or of your choice now we have seen the NPTEL activities what are the things now ok I want to take a course what are the steps that I should follow periodical I have known that ok these are the activities that takes place during the NPTEL offering stage first I have to check the timeline and course space where do I go I will go to NPTEL.ac.in portal here if you just go to NPTEL.ac.in just scroll down you will find there are NPTEL list of courses and timelines and guidelines timelines and guidelines what I have shown in here is taken from this point on ok the previous slide what I have shown but if you click onto the list of courses you will find here you have got an excel sheet that gives complete details of what all courses we are offering you are offering about 690 courses during July to October and all 690 courses are listed here you have got the discipline name of the course the faculty who is offering the course then which institute is offering the duration of the course 4 weeks 8 weeks 12 weeks and some see here this particular column tells you whether it is a redone or what is the difference between these two new means these course has been created now and is being offered for the first time the redone means this course was created earlier and this is being offered say earlier also it was offered is now being offered additional time maybe n plus one times it is being offered. So for a redone course you have got all the videos already available in the portal as well as some other say information is available that details I will show in the next slide ok so new courses as and when the courses are say every week basis the videos assignment all these things will be available but for the redone courses the videos are already available in the portal so if you are taking a redone course you can already see the content before they are made available in the live portal what is the course start date course end date exam registration date whether the course is of undergraduate level postgraduate level whether it is the four course elective course whether the courses are marked for the faculty development program whether these are aligned with any of the faculty your domains that will talk little later domains you can see the flight mechanics we will just show you what is this flight mechanics domain later ok and whether these courses joining link is given to all this information in a single sheet is available from nptl.ac.in portal ok so I have seen what are the courses available if I want to see ok what are the courses that are forthcoming from January 2024 next semester that also I will be able to see beforehand where do I go I will go to you can just search it say nptl semester information in that case it will give you say jan 2024 you can see the timeline here it will be able to see when the course from the generalization will be available as well as it will be able to see what are the tentative course list for the January to April 2024 here also this list is not final but as and when we add more courses this will be reflected here ok so you have not only seen but do I see the current set of courses that is the which is forthcoming as well as in the next semester what all courses are coming along with the timelines is available now I have decided ok I will be taking either a new course or re-run course if I choose to take a re-run course what are the things I can see in the portal since it was offered earlier what are the things available I will go to nptl.sc.in portal and see here I can search the courses by name ok let me search a course say Python say the joy of computing using Python say this is code this is the course which is being offered this semester but this was also available earlier ok so and the other things you can just note is a self-paced certificate this will take discuss more about it once we go for nptl class program self-paced certificate what is this ok now what is this available you can see here I will be able to see all the course contents here on a weekly basis addition add it what are the things are available here under the download section I will be getting multiple assignments that means in the last semester one of the last semester the type of assignments weekly assignments which was given to the students what solving is reproduced here I keep in mind that the same assignment will not be provided this time but this will give you some idea like what type of assignment questions are asked in a weekly basis so here you will be able to see see I can if I just click on to the download link I should be able to see a particular assignment how it was given ok additionally what I see here in a rerun course I should be able to see the text transcript say I am done this course I am doing this course on a particular topic I want to see ok the faculty has thought and if I can get an English text transcript I can download it from here I can also download the Hindi Kannada Malayalam all this text transcript this will be helpful for the learners particularly those who have studied in say Kannada medium and they are not very conversant in say English lectures being delivered in a classroom the students initially the students can take the help of Kannada transcripts available and slowly pick up that ok so this is just to help the student I can also download the whole transcript in a booklet format if I want to download in a Kannada format I should be able to download a complete booklet in Kannada format what is the joy of computing using Python course ok this is the way so this way it helps the learners now after going through this if I want to enrol into that course first I have seen what are the courses what are the next semester courses if it is a rerun course what are the things available in the portal already then I go to the swam.com.in portal for enrolling in a particular course ok if I do not know the names also if I just have already selected the course I can type the course name here and directly go to the course page else I can also click on to all the courses here it will display all courses which are currently available for enrolment in the swam portal ok here you can see the courses from NPTEL CEC but if I am interested only for the NPTEL course I will put the appropriate filter there national coordinator I will choose NPTEL then all NPTEL courses will be shown here then I can also select ok whether I want a 4-week course 8-week course or 12-week course ok let me select the 12-week course from NPTEL and also I want to filter it out like ok I want to take say course from NPTEL domain which domain say you are seeing something say foundation of competing for flight mechanics this domain I want to take no there is no course at this point for this is the courses which are from this domain now say I want to enrol NPTEL course what I do this is the course card where it is shown the district mathematics course by these faculties NPTEL is offering the course this is the duration timelines all these available I click on to the course card it will take me to the next course here I will get further details about the course the small video where the faculty are saying what is the learning outcome of this course about the course who are the internet audience anyone who is interested in the course they should be able to join industry support means which are the industries that would appreciate this particular course knowledge the course syllabus, faculty biography certification process all these things are available now if I want to enrol into the course what I do I know that there are 3,000 people I have already enrol into the course if I want to be 3027 number I just click on the join button there are a number of weeks I will refuse to go by my Google account because I will be carrying this my Gmail ID all along my life as long as I want to carry forward so if I want to use my Gmail account I will be writing so it has now taken me to the course enrolment page now here I see there are certain basic data it has taken now which age group I have to select 50 to 60 gender I have to select from the drop down country I have to select then if I select my pin code it will automatically take the state and my district or city then I have to select what is my profession whether I am student faculty employed or other if I am a student or faculty that means I am connected with an academic institution if I am employed I am connected with some industry that may or may not be attached to NPK okay what are these things we will do student and faculty if you are connected with the college that means the college could possibly be a NPK local chapter and the if the faculty is connected with the NPK industry associate program that particular industry we will talk about that they have to select that one so if you are a student select student select from your this one what is your highest qualification say if you are say in the high school or maybe 4 years bachelor's program or 3 years bachelor's degree what is your year of graduation right now say you are in the first year of your studies and we say graduating in 2026 that's also fine academic bank of trade that is if you are taking the courses from multiple national coordinators and restaurant you will be needing to generate a ABC ID academic bank of credit but as far as the NPTEL is concerned we will not be looking at this we will be just looking at your NPTEL email ID okay then comes your are you a local from a local chapter it is from your local chapter select yes select the local chapter state say in this case if you are from Kanataka select Kanataka then select from here if I am from the institute of management and science I select this institute then college role number degree that I am pursuing say I am pursuing commerce and management department it can be accounting and finance I could be studying in the first year then you select I agree to the swam terms and service and I agree to follow the honor then click on to the joint okay now here I have already joined into the course it is telling that thank you for registering in the course now since this course has already started so we have already in week one contents are available week one what all things you have you have got the video different lecture videos are available here you can see the videos from here additionally what is available see these are all small videos we say that we are giving 30 minutes all list says one minute the very small segment videos that the faculty has chosen to provide additionally what you have got you have got text transcript you have got text transcript transcript of that English text transcript is available you can download the videos the live sessions that will talk little later English book is also available so all these things are available now week one you will also see which that is the week one assignment you have got after going through the videos and all the things you have to submit the solution of in the computer itself each has got one point how many questions are there there are 10 points that means each question is of equivalent to 10 marks okay 10 points is equivalent to 100 marks that means it is 10 marks each question within this 10 days time that is they have got 10 days time from Monday morning till next Wednesday 1159 is the timeline you can see here timeline date is given 2359 is the timeline when you have to submit the assignment after this you should be able to see your assignment score under the progress tab here you will be able to see in out of on date in the assignment one what is your score okay now say after going through the video you have got certain doubts you want to ask a question to the faculty where do you go you click onto the ask a question button here see many people have started asking the question here so you will be able to post your queries here which will be answered by the faculty as well as if you know as a PR group PR learner you are also permitted to answer the queries and if your answer is wrong the faculty will be correct so this is a very good platform where you will be actually interacting with the PR learners from different parts of the country so here you have got all four quartets that is the first video you have got forum for interaction you have got assignment you have got supplementary study materials all these four quartets are available here okay then if your college has actually provided a faculty who will be helping you as a first table of installation point in your college in your learning process then the faculty will be acting as a mentor if the faculty has enrolled into the course and the single point of contact from your college has identified that faculty as a mentor then that mentor name should be available under this tab and you will be able to choose that particular faculty as your mentor okay so these all facilities are available in the course page where every time you have to go this announcement whatever we do that means once the course say videos are released assignments are released all these assignment solutions are released all these informations are put into the announcement page this will be available in the announcement tab as well as this will be sent to you in your regular registered email box okay now we have seen all the things under SWAM or how to enroll into the course and how to complete the course at the end you will be writing the exam and for that you have to go to examform.html.xp.edu where you will be registering separately for the examination by paying 1000 rupees or 500 rupees P as the case may be 500 is only for SCST and PWP so from this port you will be paying the P and selecting giving your option like what is your choice of city clear I am not getting any question from the forum I don't know whether I am making your points clear or not if you are understanding you can just indicate me on the you can say Google chat for YouTube chat box also now we have seen the NPTEL activities you can just see some of the statistics because many of the time the students may feel that okay the courses are coming from IITs it must be very doubtful to actually attend to that so these statistics will give you some idea like what all things express here say if you are taking a course say I was talking about a Python course how do you check the Python code statistic say joy of computing using Python where do I see the statistics we have seen the statistics under these statistics that I should be able to see when this course was offered previously and how many people involved how many people registered for the exam and what was the percentage of people who successfully completed that case courses that means out of 4,666 courses 4,045 people actually completed the course that's a good number that means I should be able to complete the course yes there are certain courses which are considered tougher which are math based math intensive so these in these data will possibly give you some idea whether you will be able to pop up with the course pressure or not additionally these subsequent few slides will give you some idea how many people registered how many people will write the exam and what is the past percent so far for certification from this 2014 to 2020 we have created number of courses but many of the courses have been offered multiple times in lead on that is so far although we created 3,000 class unique courses we have offered about 5,372 courses including new and read on more than 2.3 class learners enrolled into the courses 28.6 class learners registered for the examination and out of that you can see the large number of students for learners have actually got a certificate 18.8 lakhs people have been certified what was the journey what started as during this thing we have started with 3 courses in 2014 1 lakh student enrollment and our 3,000 students registering now if you just see our graph during the last year we offered about say 1,213 courses and you can see more than 40 lakhs people enrolling and 7.5 lakh people registering for the exam in the last semester alone we offered 665 courses which has gone to 34 lakh class students enrolling for the course and more than 5 lakh people registering for the examination okay now here this semester July to December semester we are offering about 690 courses whose enrollment has not closed yet it will continue till 21st of July okay now we are not offering only the courses which are very popular which will draw maybe maximum number of students because these are not for commercial purposes targeted to help or the benefit the learners from different segments okay so we are not offering the courses only from you can say select discipline but you can see that this not only you are offering the courses from the 4 engineering branches but we are also the courses you can find from the physics, chemistry, mathematics, design even not so popular engineering disciplines but it's not available elsewhere you can say across all engineering colleges like textile engineering ocean engineering maybe you can say think about the mining engineering these are also available in select group of institutions we are offering those courses also including ethical and food engineering we are offering courses from health science law courses okay so the number of courses that you see from the mechanical, computer science, electrical is almost comparable number of courses that comes from humanities management disciplines too the exam attendance percentage we see that okay how many people are registering for the exam and how many out there actually turn up for writing the exam we find that more than 90% almost 90% people turn up for the exam because during this 8 weeks, 12 weeks period they extensively go through the course material having the assignment so they are you can say given a lot of exposure on the course material and they are quite confident that they will be able to complete the course and they appear for the examination first percentage has been almost 70% now earlier it used to be 80 to 85% but after the implementation of 40% first percentage individually in the assignment and the final exam it has taken a little deep I think 70% first percentage is also very good now on a gender basis if you see the speed of learners it is 40 women versus 60 men that is also good if you compare with the gender speed which is available in the other academic institution it is very good consistent with some part is being followed now question comes okay you may ask why should I take this course for certification because someone was asking in the forum like is it suitable for getting an employment or it has got any value see why we are taking large number of people taking these courses for the credit transfer but equally good number of learners are taking these courses for getting an internship or job opportunity or say if you are in an industry there is a need to this skill or up skill every after 5 years there is a change in technology there is a general trend so you really need to update yourself update your domain skill to be relevant in the industry so many people are taking these courses primarily for updating themselves or re-skilling or up-skilling that is the terminology additionally many people are taking these courses for the research purpose okay or preparing for the competitive exam someone asked about the gate exam yes large number of students are taking these courses for preparation of gate examination too now if you see the top 20 enrollment and exam registration wise courses of Jan 2020 yes the courses are primarily from the computer science say data science AI machine learning programming languages like python these courses are quite popular because you have got general trend that many of the jobs are linked to this so more and more people are taking these courses but equally good number of courses are taking courses like your enhancing soft skill and personality soft skill development all these courses okay the reason behind is that for the job market once you want to appear for an interview it is not only your domain knowledge but how do you present before the interviewer how do you talk to your personality your body language your you can say verbal and written communication skills all these things will matter so there is a good demand of up-skilling them or they are operating them on their soft skills so people are taking these courses for enrollment or registration also next comes your the main challenge is that we find there are certain cities where you have got a large number of exam registration now the registration numbers are available hardly one month ahead of the exam so that becomes difficult at that point to actually they provide you an exam center of your choice at the first choice second choice what the problem is that say in Tamil Nadu Chennai has got 28000 last semester that means within these three days we have to actually provide this many number of notes to the students for conducting the exam and if you see the Chennai city the number of notes that are available that's in much case so in that scenario it becomes difficult for us to accommodate in your choices the series that you have chosen either we do what we do we just send into another center which is quite far off or we have to conduct the exam on additional dates for you so that may be crashing with some other examination dates so this creates a problem that is the reason we say that the major challenge before us is creating the necessary element logistic element for contacting the exam so if your college has got say you have decided that we will be taking grade transfer or you have got some idea like how many students from your college will be writing the exam do intimate MPKL before so that we are prepared for that as we said that leaving the delivery of the contents every week the faculty will be talking about the theoretical aspect and may be little bit of problem solving but the problems which are in the assignment the students have to actually understand the theory concept and solve it so we are using the support of PMRF scholars to provide that support in the last January 2020 session we have actually utilized the services of PMRF scholars 466 number PMRF scholars and supported 284 courses where every week they conducted live session that means they will be physically directly interacting with the virtual media and clearing their doubt solving the problem these sessions are not only conducted live but also the recorded sessions are made available so that if a student has missed it they should be able to attend the session later see the recorded version and the students who have attended this session they say that these have been extremely beneficial and you can see the feedback that we have received from the learners who have attended such courses these all things you can see from our social media handles now comes NPTEL staffs what are these NPTEL staffs? let's talk about the domain scholar now you would say you are in a BCA program you want to pursue a career in a particular focused area or you want to take your career what are the best studies in that particular area? for this it is essential that you should have a specialized knowledge in a particular area how do you get that knowledge? what are the courses that you should study? we are trying to give a guidance on that we have identified certain domains and the courses that you have to complete to get an expertise in that particular domain so we will talk more about it in the next slide now other staffs are what? other staffs are NPTEL super staffs NPTEL evangelists, motivated learners enthusiasts, discipline staffs and believers what are these? depending on your association with NPTEL, number of courses you are taking in a particular semester and your performance on number of courses you are taking into subsequent semester over a period of time and your performance in the courses we actually mark you as NPTEL staff under different categories say if you have taken 4, 5 or 6 courses in a particular semester and you are conferring at least 3 exams 3 courses then you call you are NPTEL super staff then NPTEL evangelists are and motivated NPTEL evangelists NPTEL evangelists means that you are present in at least 18 examinations 18 courses over 4 years timeline that is 8 semesters within this 8 semesters if you have taken 18 courses registered for the exam and you have passed in 2 third of the courses then you call you are NPTEL evangelists NPTEL motivated learners and enthusiasts they are similar only thing if you have taken appeared for 8 examinations in 4 semesters passed in 2 third of that one exam in 8 4 semesters you have actually consecutive semesters you have continued in the NPTEL then you are motivated learner but you have completed the similar number of courses but maybe you are not made the you can support the continuity you might have done the courses you got number of courses over 4 semesters but may might have taken a break in one semesters in that case you are NPTEL enthusiasts similarly NPTEL domain starts and believers are categorized we will talk more about the NPTEL domain scholar we say in our terms that is a micro specialization ok you gain an expertise in the area of introduction ok so naturally once you get an expertise in a particular area this helps you that means once you appear for an interview you will be having in-depth knowledge of that particular area if the government is from that sector even really outnumber other PR group members who are appearing for the interview from your group ok the feature of this is that there are say 6 to 7 courses with certain say weak structure is given you have to learn for 60 weeks 50 weeks 40 weeks whatever it is there are 6 to 7 courses that you have to complete that comprises few courses and collective courses these courses have to be complicated in a period of 3 years that is starting of the first course to the ending of the course should not cross 3 years and in NPTEL as you know if you just score 40% mark you get a certificate but here if you want to get a domain certificate you should not individual score should not fall below 55 and the average score should not fall below 60 ok we will just maybe have a look NPTEL domain page what is there browse your NPTEL domain and force it you have got 12 domains and we have created about we can say 51 domain we were seeing in the excel sheet the force page there are some courses where it was written flight mechanics so let me check here but before we go there we will see what all disciplines are there aerospace bioscience biotechnology bioengineering chemical engineering civil engineering computer science electrical engineering faculty discipline faculty discipline you have got fundamental and advanced humanities social science management mathematics mechanical engineering metallurgy and materials engineering so these are the disciplines under which different domains have been created say if I just now consider say flight mechanics domain you have to complete at least 50 weeks of planning there are 4 4 courses and there are 2 elective courses that means 6 courses you have to complete and ensure that the total duration of the courses should not fall below 50 what are the 4 courses these are the 4 courses listed and whether these courses available for enrollment at this point yes it is shown here that July to December these courses available so you can complete these 4 courses you can also complete the 2 elective courses there are number of elective courses marked and these elective courses can also be taken so it should not take more than 3 or 4 semesters to complete a particular domain one is serious to complete a domain within this area ok then what else you have here our domain scholar if you are a domain scholar then your name and photograph will be appearing in this particular page you can see here it's not the domain scholars are only faculty members you have got students you have got employed professionals so it's a mix of faculty, student and you can say employed professionals from asking who are doing these courses for domain certification ok you can see the domain from the employer so this is the details for the details I have shown from the portal you can actually check it from nptl.sc.in-domain this is how a sample domain certificate will look like you will have the certificate you will be at your photograph name the domain you have created the courses that you have completed with the marks you have put all these things will be available now it's not that ok the people are doing only one particular domain there are two number of people yes they are doing one courses one scholars have completed one domain but there are 32 scholars have completed two domains and there are at least four people who have completed three domains so this is definitely quite beneficial for the learners because this will help you or this will give you an age for employment opportunity most popular courses if you just look at them from the industry perspective yes they are looking at people who have got two big spotlights on the python data science AI machine learning cloud computing internet of things all these courses are most sought after courses by the industry then comes npt lady stated we know that ok UGC and AICP higher education regulators have given the mandate that ok either 20% or 40% of the courses for the credits in a particular semester can be taken through from swim while UGC has up to 40% credit from the swim AICP has up to up to 20% what is credit transfer that means academic concept of the university or autonomous college has to approve regulation is there from the UGC and AICP only it has to be approved by the academic council of the university or the autonomous institution that saying that they are approving these courses for credit transfer that means they have to select the course nptl will say that 10 hour courses are equivalent to your one credit 20 hour courses are equivalent to two credits and 30 hour courses are equivalent to three credits but again with that they should take it as what is recommended by nptl or they will enhance it by say two credits is made as three credits three credits is equivalent to four credits it's up to the prerogative of the academic council they have to define how many credits for the course and what kind of courses they have to actually recommend for the student from our say experience we can only suggest that it should not be recommended for the final year student because in case they do not complete the course it may jeopardize their schedule of internship and job opportunity and also for the first year student the first semester student if possible that should be avoided because we understand they come from the school level it will take some time for them to settle in the new environment and from second semester if they can be given certain say courses for it say 80 courses say from the soft this course in that case they will just take this course lot of pressure will not be there and they will fully understand how a new course actually is to be handled what are the formalities completely complicated then from third semester we can actually give them courses which are still based ok otherwise we can also do one thing that we say that ok we can recommend that these are the courses you have to complete let the students complete the course then submit the course certificate for credit transfer so that can also take place in that we have already tied up with AICT for recognizing the NPTEL courses as faculty development program once you have gone to the SWIMP the course page also there was a summary under each course it was mentioned the details like whether it is UG, PG when it is starting what is the duration and all and at the end the red box what is written here highlighted here it will be written whether it is a FDP courses or not FDP course means if a faculty member completes this course then he or she is eligible to get a FDP certificate but it does not mean that these courses are only for the faculty these courses are open for anyone who is interested to take the course but if a faculty member completes this course and writes the exam get a normal NPTEL certificate then separately they can ask for apply for the FDP certificate by paying a relevant fees FDP certificate looks like this it is jointly signed by the NPTEL coordinator and the ICT representative now if you see the recognition we have got three variation of courses 4, 8 and 12 week courses so the 4 week courses is equivalent to half FDP of 1 week, 8 week courses are full FDP of 1 week and 12 week courses are equivalent to 1.5 FDP how many courses are considered for FDP we know that of the last semester we offered 665 courses out of the 61 courses were marked as FDP courses faculty who are the people taking these courses we find either they are student faculty member or impact professional if you just see the distribution we find there are about 5 to 7 percent involvement comes from that we can say employed professional about 20 percent, 17 to 20 percent comes from your faculty and the remaining people are from the student category so this is the distribution here additionally we know the single point of contact the faculty members who are actually acting as a single point of contact for the NPTEL activities in college actually the course BRRs of this NPTEL program they are the ambassadors of this program in the industry now we don't pay them anything for their effort but they took lot of pain, they take lot of pain taking the inputs from the NPTEL and popularizing it talking to the administration, motivating the students they take lot of activities they participate in that and make it acceptable to the administration as well as to the motivational administration now to help the students in their career perspective excuse me, sorry there was some interruption just to start with that so what we do for the to support the SPOC's in their career path if the SPOC's are participating in a conference that means any of the conference if their papers have been accepted for presentation in IITs or NITs or certain designated institutions in that case the faculty can be given as financial support to the extent of 45,000 who need their requirement of you can say registration travel expenses and accommodation related expenses so for this what they have to do if the SPOC's papers are accepted for presentation in any of the conferences held in certain designated institutions they get the support of 25,000 for this every month the first 10 days there is a window in which the faculty can actually apply for this you can say program faculty can actually write to NPTEL with the documents that they want an approval for getting the support once we scrutinize and approve it then on completion of the internship or the conceptual conference they will be connecting with us giving us the document related to the expenses they have input and the amount will be reimbursed to them so for that it is essential that you meet the conditions that is the institute where it is conducted is as per the NPTEL norms additionally what we do someone is asking about the gate quota yes we understand that many of the students, the learners will be interested to prepare for the gate examination because gate exam does not only give you an opportunity for higher studies with scholarship but also is now linked to the jobs in public sector undertaking so there is a need to prepare better and in gate exam, exams like gate which are conducted by IITs you definitely know that the questions will be testing they will be testing your in-depth knowledge of the particular subject so you really need to understand that you should have a deeper understanding of the fundamental and NPTEL courses are offered by the faculty members from IITs and many of these faculty members are associated with the preparation of the gate question paper so they know at which extent they should be teaching the subject so what we have done say if you are writing the gate exam how do we help you first you are from a particular discipline you wish to get deeper understanding of different subjects that you have studied from that particular and if I instead of going through the complete 3000 courses if I can identify if you want to read this particular topic at gate say deeper understanding of a particular topic which lecture you should see that we call syllabus mapping so that we have done for certain courses gate syllabus mapping has been done for 10 discipline that we will be showing you now you have actually taken the courses or actually connected to that particular video lecture as per the syllabus mapping understood the concept before the exam what all other things are that we do we try to solve previous year's question paper to get a confidence okay so here also in gate portal what we have done we have taken the previous year's question paper and provided you video resolution so you can just take the video solution if you are not in a position to solve the problems refer to that next comes before the exam we always try to take more examination just to test on my timeline whether I can complete all the questions within 3 hours and what is my score so for that we need mock test so instead of going to a third agency you can always take the mock test to NPTEL portal support you may need to support you have not understood certain concept is there anyone from NPTEL who can actually guide you in your understanding there are PMRF scholars who are there to provide online assistance to mentorship support so what all things are required for your gate preparation all the features are available let me take you to the gate portal and show you where these things are available the gate portal here you can see all all the details here go to the top corner there is a tab say gate syllabus mapping we said that syllabus mapping is done say you are talking about say mechanical engineering ok in the mechanical engineering if I am from mechanical engineering what here these are the subjects that I have to study they applied mechanics and design is a subject that I am selecting that way I am studying this particular subject at this point and under this subject these are the topics I have got to study in depth say I want to have deeper understanding of the engineering mechanics which are the video lectures that will give me this understanding these are the lectures by different faculty members identified and mapped with the gate portal so if I just click on this it will take me to a lecture which will describe deeper understanding of the body diagrams and equilibrium ok so this is how gate syllabus mapping has been done then comes what we say that ok you can see the video solutions of the previous semester question papers say I am from electronics and communication engineering and I want to see a particular year question paper say EC 2020 then these are the solution ok the question number wise they have given the solution of the particular question so you can also refer to the previous question papers video solution what else we said we said that you can take the practice test here you can go here under this you can go to the course and take the practice test similarly if you want a mentoring support that also you can engage with NPTEL and get the support from NPTEL to TMRF scholars on clearing your doubt so in total in a particular portal try to provide all support that are required by the student for doing well in the courses get examination now NPTEL I was showing in the python course page it was self-paced course something was written there what is the self-paced course now so far we have talked about NPTEL that means which are offered in a timeline in January and July suppose I am in industry ok and ideally do not have 12 weeks time to complete a course but I really want that certificate in that case what I can do can I have that flexibility that whenever I want I should be able to take that course so python course which was about 12 weeks duration I want to complete it we didn't say instead of 12 weeks I want to complete it 12 days for 15 days I want to complete it I have the capability can I do that yes that is visible so NPTEL class is a platform which offers that flexibility that means I can take certain courses and complete it at my face and time I will be completing the course whenever I want whichever duration I want I will be able to complete that within that duration and also I will be able to take the exam whenever I want whenever I want it is not a particular date in September or October ok this is NPTEL class additionally it not only offers the courses some of the courses from NPTEL it also offers certain courses which are skill based training like it could be short term course long term training programs on a particular software on a particular you can say thing which are relevant in the industry so these courses are live and blended courses it not only contains the you can say regular MOOCs which are offered in NPTEL but also short term and long term programs which is can be as small as 2 to 4 week 4 hours to 2 months also ok so these are the availability what are the courses available can I have a look elan.mpql.sc.me is the portal if I go there what all things I will be able to see I will be able to see here see which courses available ok now let me tell you since these courses gives you lot of flexibility in terms of when I can enroll when I can complete and when I can actually write the certification exam so it comes with a policy it is not free the access to the contents is not free certain amount is charged depending on your course duration ok now you have got variation it can be NPTEL course it can be IIT workshop or it could be partner courses say if we say partner in courses what are the courses that comes from other industry say here the courses that are available from other institutes you can see it here additionally you can see here IIT workshop ongoing say this course getting job ready during college years it starts from 5th august how much does it cost is it very costly no it is only 500 rupees course they will be charged and I can complete it as much my confidence so this is NPTEL course that means these courses are offered whenever I need these are not only offered by the faculty members from IIT but industry professionals are also delivering these courses ok so there is a basic difference between NPTEL and NPTEL class this is already we have discussed then someone are asking in the beginning internship for the top yes we do provide the internship opportunities for the learners to NPTEL now it is not possible to give internship opportunity to all learn so the top are quotes top parts are having the privilege of everything this internship what we do is there any application process no then how do we select the candidates first once the results are out we say that ok this many people are post offers we get in touch with the faculty because the internship is under the same faculty under which course you have the top one ok candidates the top one so we first get in touch with the faculty get a consent from them whether he or she is available to take the internship during summer and winter finally note that internships are conducted at IITs or IS that means this will be conducted during the vacation in IIT ok so beyond once the course starts we usually stop the internship internship we always prefer to have in person whether student can actually go to IITs mix with the community the researcher community here and get a wide exposure yes some of the courses where it is not mandatory that can be taken up as an online mode but the preferred mode is offline that is decided by the faculty so the duration is 4 weeks to 12 weeks preferred mode is offline where the faculty the student has to move to the institution of the faculty ok they have to stay in the hostel as far as possible NPTEL is concerned they will try to provide the accommodation in hostel if available otherwise the students have to make their own arrangement ok how the selection takes place once we get the consent of the faculty we ride back to the student that the faculty is interested for say 4 weeks, 18 weeks or 12 weeks internship if you are willing to fill up the form they will be given a google form which they have to fill up in that google form they have to submit 3 documents one of the document is the resume latest resume second one is a statement of purpose that is what they intend to do in the internship hard is the last two semester grade if they say that we are in the first year yes you don't need to provide but if you have previous two semesters the study in a college you provide that certificate so based on these three documents and your performance in the NPTEL exam the faculty will be selecting the right number of students that can be accommodated in that particular institution for certain courses if there are hundreds of students definitely all students cannot be accommodated so some screening will be done and some students will be selected sometimes the faculty will be conducting an online interview talking to the student and selecting ok so that's how the selection takes place once they are selected then we send them an offer later so no applications are required from the student directly NPTEL will be directly contacting that offers for their internship opportunity ok what we provide to them in addition to the internship to support the logistic arrangement we provide them a token support that is for a four weeks internship we provide them 5000 rupees for eight weeks 10,000 and 12 weeks 15,000 rupees these amount will be reimbursed once they complete the internship and provide the internship report ok once they complete the internship they will be provided at the internship certificate by NPTEL as soon as we receive the details but it may take some time to process the internship stipend and disbursate ok this is the whole process so during the period of internship the students will be taking care of the expenditure that are required for their stay and the lodging and boarding expenses in addition to what NPTEL offers we have also tied up with Texas Instruments to provide some industry industry for these Texas Instruments which is a leading industry in IC manufacturing they have said that the students have to complete certain courses by say four or six months put up the courses you can directly go to this particular portal nptl.ac.in and get the details but in general they say that you have to complete the basic electrical circuits and either analog circuits or analog IC design these courses you have to complete additionally if you have completed certain other courses like your circuit analysis for analog design and interaction to time bearing electrical networks and so on you will be given a preference for this the selected candidates will be undergoing an interactive program under TI and based on the interview response the TI will be offering the internship opportunity for the selected students ok for the course of skill training what is this we are offering you the course to give a deeper understanding of the knowledge of a particular course not only these courses are offered from the emerging areas because we know in the because of the implementation of industry 4.0 there is a lot of change in the way industry works but again you really our syllabus are not updated so what we do we definitely try to provide some courses aligning with the industry so this will help you but again even if you know the subjects you have got the required skills that you really need to know how to write a good resume to prepare a resume how to take the help of social media to search for jobs say your body language communication skill writing skill how to face the HR interview what are the common questions how to respond to that you really need to know all these things that there are many institutions they actually hire certain say experts from the industry and give them training but not all students are fortunate enough particularly from the TR2TR3 they definitely lack these you can say facilities to help them we arrange a soft-skilled training to our experts this training could be of one week or two weeks for this if your college is interested and there are 30-40 students who have taken NPTEL courses you can actually ask our team to organize the NPTEL soft-skilled training for your team we try to provide first preference to the TR2TR3 what do we do in this period we always try to provide you employment assessment phase English language phase online interactive sessions are done so that the experts can tell you what are your shortcomings and how do we actually overcome that we conduct one-to-one mock test to give you a feeling of like how you should actually face the interview all these things are part of it so employability assessment, English language phase interactive sessions to tell you what are shortcomings then in addition to the lectures you also provide a certain home task on a daily basis to solve those problems it gives a comprehensive overall say inputs on your soft-skilled training soft-skilled improvement and after undergoing these courses the learners who have undergone these courses they have actually informed the benefit they have attained from this course which is highly saying that about the training part we say that we are not only connected with the colleges as NPTEL local chapter but also connected with the industries who are called as NPTEL industry associates we know there are about 5-8% of the learners coming from the industry for their skills so there are certain industry professionals already taking these courses so in addition to that we have already tied up certain industries from the government sector as well as from the private sector, from IT sector to all branches of engineering who are connected with us not only for training but also as say employees to NPTEL but also giving support in the course that is jointly collaborating with NPTEL and developing the courses also providing a much needed support in the form of say students need certain inputs like what industry wants leadership talks how to develop the leadership quality so that in addition to what they provide they are also providing specialized talks particularly catering to the needs of the learners who wants to join the industry additionally we can see the spread of different industries who are connected with us as NPTEL industry associates they are also providing the live sessions then you know in particular for the local chapters the SPSS might be doing that we have a program called TOEVERS that is if the college feels that the certain students are really needy but they are meritorious but very needy and they cannot afford to pay thousand which is example for this if the college checks the credential occur financial credential of the students and recommend their name for TOEVERS that is we try to provide 50% of the TOEVERS for example as a waiver initially the students will be registering by paying a full fee but once they are successfully completing the course they will be given back 50% of the fee as reimbursement that is TOEVERS and this TOEVERS comes from the industry associates and there are few individuals who are supporting in this initiative more than 1.4 lakh students from different states you can see the numbers are before you are particularly from the TR to TRT series have been benefited another program that I have shown in Python course is that in addition to the English text transcript you have got the transcripts available in different languages, original languages so this is a translation effort taken by the NPTEL more than 250 courses have been converted into different languages but we have miles to go this job cannot be done by NPTEL alone because we really do not have expertise on different languages so if some of the faculty members are from local chapter colleges are having good depth on a particular local language as well as they know the particular course details in that case they can engage with NPTEL and take up the job of translation activities that means they will be given the text transcript in English language that they have to convert into their local language so for this what is essential is that they should have good background of their particular local language and good understanding of the particular subject so if you are willing it is a paid service you can write back to us and support us in this initiative for the benefit of the learners particularly from the tier 2 to 3 cities who might have studied in their vernacular media till last 12th standard this translation effort is ongoing as we have said these are the languages on which we are working you can see not many languages have been tried up in Canada we could only complete 77 and Assam is only one we have not yet completed so if you are having good knowledge on this particular local language and the subject you help us in this initiative then we are available in different social media like LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube whatever we do whatever the information that we receive from the learners as part of the feedback are always published here and we have a good follower base in all these social media platforms the numbers only speaks about that the NPTEL starts we talked about we definitely encourage them and provide them a memory in the form of t-shirts so that they can proudly display that they are NPTEL starts Lab Workshop is another initiative which we usually conduct around the year giving which a group of learners 40-50 learners are actually attending the laboratory workshop in a particular institution they go to that particular institution and during the first 5 days they will be undergoing the theoretical and experiments morning and afternoon and on Saturday there will be an examination and a certificate for these they have to pay a token charge of 200 rupees for attending the workshop and the accommodation and food expenses are to be owned by the candidates themselves now this is local chapter to become a local chapter NPTEL local chapter I understand today's organizer one of the college which is participating with us is a local chapter but if we consider that information then to become a local chapter you really don't need a building separate room and all only the interest to become a local chapter is what is required if you are interested there is a form you can go to the NPTEL.sc.in and download the form from there and see the join us local chapter a particular form is available the booklet about NPTEL what is NPTEL all these information are available fill out the form submit the documents and within a 7 or 10 days time we approve the local chapter and once you become a local chapter then you can say a dedicated page for local chapter is created under NPTEL say if you just say here this is how a local chapter page looks like it will have the name of the college the SPOC details and if this college the students from this college are actually enrolling in NPTEL courses their numbers all the details if they are top part all these details like there are 8 top parts all these details will be available under this tab ok what are the benefits of this once you become a local chapter the benefits is that you get all your information on the local chapter page then whoever is enrolling into the course the course enrolled status exam registration status assignment data all these are available to the SPOC through the dashboard they can apply for the fee waiver what we called about the needy students fee waiver that has to come from the local chapter so they can apply for the fee waiver they can actually allocate the mentors for the needy students local because for the local exam center if it is the college is located in a far off place but there is no local examination center nearby place they can request for the local exam center provided certain number of students are writing the exam additionally if they are interested they can actually same they can say the hard disk and get the contents say 60,000 hours of content copy it in their hard disk fee of course and put it into the local repository so that for read and courses the students can actually use these contents as a library resource material whenever they want so these are the benefits associated that we are currently working with about more than 5,500 local chapter spread across different countries different states ok and based on the performance of the students from these local chapters these local chapters are rated first as active local chapter that means if there are at least 25 students writing the exam from a particular college and at least 50% of them successfully complete the course then it is active local chapter ok then comes based on the performance we calculate certain points and if the college is within top 100 based on the points we rate the colleges as display, double A or A as we understand the college with whom we are working today they are within the top 100 local chapter colleges as was pointed out by the principal side we are also having local chapter outside India because there are many students are now taking the courses from outside India and also writing the exam in a proctored manner local chapter participation has been continuously good and currently almost 90% environment comes primarily from the local chapters this we have already talked about that you can see that maximum registration comes from few of the local states like 21% registration comes from 555 local chapters from Tamil Nadu yes many of the colleges have become local chapter but they are not active in that sense even 25 candidates are writing the examination in a semester they become the local chapter but they are not taking the courses or encouraging the students to take the courses now the suggestion for the local chapter is that initially you can always encourage soft skill or English language courses then you can go for the programming or skill based courses like data science, internet of things, machine learning etc then you can actually encourage the students particularly for taking the domain courses so that they can complete it within 3 or 4 semester a particular domain they can explore the gate portal because it has got a consolidated overview of what all things are required to prepare better for the gate examination initially they can think of taking all rerun courses because they have complete idea about what's the video they can prepare much before and based on the one set of assignment available although the new set of assignments will be different but they will have some idea about the type of or the quality of assignment question if your college is actually encouraging the students for taking the MPTL courses it's good that if you can actually mark a starting or timetable for the MPTL courses there is a faculty who is acting as a mentor and interact with the students during the allotted time and ensure that there is no college activity around the MPTL exam dates mentors are also given recognition if the mentees are doing well so based on the performance of the mentees certain points are allocated for each performance rating like if they are successfully completing elite, elite gold, elite silver and all and if the mentors get at least 10 mentorship points they are given a mentorship certificate with this I'll close the session here we have already finished the time-time if there are any questions we'll take up the questions otherwise I'm handing over the stage to the SPOC for the technical work. What are the questions we are coming in the YouTube chat box we have responded since there is no other questions maybe the SPOC can take over over to SPOC if someone is having any doubt kindly post your queries in the chat box so that we can respond there is a question that if the students have completed the assignment but could not write the exam then completed the exam writing the they cannot write the exam then naturally they have to go for the next semester there is nothing like that we can take the exam separately for them if they want to write the exam in the next semester now we are permitting that they can actually take the assignments both from here and take it for the next semester but it's always good that the students can actually take the next set of assignments and prepare accordingly any questions that to be posted there is no question sorry YouTube there is no question whatever questions came we will try to answer sir we definitely had from 2019 we were a part of NPTEL and almost 8 batches are completed from Sondari Institute of Management and Science and as the server was telling about our journey in NPTEL was really good because 4 consecutive year we were not having in the top 100 colleges we have done it but as you all know engineering colleges have this as a mandatory but be the degree colleges it's an optional but however the department like NPTEL Science department management department, commerce department there were a lot of courses that have been taken including international language in German, French and the best part was many of the teachers from the institutions were also willing and they have done a lot of courses and we were in the very first batch one of our faculty member also had scored the rank you know he was in the top 2 in the entire examination on corporate costing management I think and he was been also invited in IALT during 2019-20 and 4 times I was the stock I got the best mentoring award for the completion of almost 70 to 80% of the students have cleared the exam that's one great thing that the institution has in its history and coming to that this year you know we are really having a plan to have more domain certification rather than one or two certificates so that we can keep track of the students in one part I truly agree and believe the program structure has been designed on a domain specifications so on this regard I know it was a real informative that which how we can start with so that's how we it's a future plan and one small concern that I would like to mention through this platform is we also have an internship programs and other things that we know been offered to mechanical engineering, chemical engineering and electronics and other things it's not such an allied department we have more on engineering we have more on theoretical and practicals I do agree but there were little less chances for a degree students to get into more on internship programs, more on the hands-on training program in IIT so if there is a some general boot camps programs for everyone who all can opt so I would be much obliged that if you have some boot camps learning the same concept in my institution is very much different from learning the same concept in IITs because the ecosystem you know the feel of learning also matters so what I would request is if there is a future plans of having some boot camps for the students probably around three days or two days with the state so that really impacts the learning environment so that's only one request that I had from my end and it was really informative you know it was a complete walkthrough from the point A to point B so it was really amazing and thank you for your valuable time and I must thank IIT Madras because whenever I approach Kamala Ma'am or whenever I approach Bharki Ma'am, every time there was a supporting system that will then do our college so thank you so much and now I request may be interrupt one you can explore there is a program called Microsoft Future Really Talent maybe yourself or some of the faculty members can explore that program and the students who are doing well in the courses they have given the privilege that there is certain hours of program that needs to be completed in the Microsoft Effective Program they get a lot of exposure in that it's a Future Really Talent is this program under Swayam? No it's not under Swayam it's directly between NPTEL and Microsoft it's a new initiative you can just type out NPTEL Future Ready Sorry NPTEL Microsoft Future Ready Talent Program and you get further details support because of the constraint of time there are many things that really cannot be passed upon because NPTEL is not only taking just offering the courses there are many many new initiatives are taken for the benefit of the lab so that they are better job ready it's a Microsoft Future Ready Talent effort definitely sir I think this would really help us both because there is a time where not only the students but the faculty members have to be up still they have to level themselves because it's very competitive for both of us and being in NPTEL production that it's with the challenging and you know making the students to level up as required by the institution and other organization anyway sir thank you so much and I request now Rupa Haryan to take over for the whole course I think there is a question from questions from the learners before we close the session we just in the light of semester pattern specially with how to conduct or select students how to conduct or select students is asked by Uttara Singh selecting students I would only say see that we are offering courses but all courses although we say that you can start anyone can join in any of the courses but some of the courses after the results are declared we find that okay some courses which are prescribed for a particular group of students they're not really suitable for them okay and say if there are about 1500 students taken the course hardly even 5% students are not here the reason behind is that that particular course possibly had required a deeper understanding of mathematical background and that was not taken into account while prescribing the course for the students because if the students background does not match with the course background that is required it will be difficult so what we can do what we can suggest is that initially instead of just prescribing one or two courses you can possibly request them to take maybe two or four courses and all into that take two or three weeks then decide on which course to continue in some of the courses we have seen that the students after interacting with the college SPLCs and the administrators they said the students could follow up to say second week, third week beyond that they could not follow in that case after third week there is no option to switch from one course to another course so in that case the other option is that you allow the students to enroll in multiple courses then let the students complete three or four weeks if they feel that certain courses cannot be complicated because it's becoming tough for them they can drop from that course and continue with the other course this decision has to be taken by the faculty this is fast forward then there is some question from Banerjee sir please let us know if there are benefits to the students who give exam yes as we said that see one thing you have to consider that once a prospective employer comes and there are say they are going to interview 60 students if you consider the base merit of raw merit of all the students are equal they are referring the same book space they are being guided by the same faculty then once the employer comes whom they should choose because everyone knows the same thing someone has to put them in a different bracket and if they do certain courses which are aligned with the industrial brain current the latest brain which is not mandated by the college for getting a degree then definitely he or she is getting noticed not only that so this gives them a lot of advantage in getting employed another thing is that once they join an industry if you just go through any of the fiki nasform or any other report this is the industrial scenario is changing every after 50 years there is a general trend because of the implementation of industry 4.0 things are changing very rapidly every second day in your technologies are coming so even if they are joining in say IT sector today they are working in a particular project they have got expertise on a particular programming language tomorrow suddenly they change their say project from one project they are going to another project in that case they will be required to learn a newer programming now in a college atmosphere the teachers are there to support them in their learning initiative but what happens once they go to the industry they have to learn with themselves there will not be anyone so this is the time when they should be encouraged for self learning they should be encouraged they should know how to learn themselves so it is not only helps them to get a job at this point of time but also prepares them how to learn if they know how to learn themselves then tomorrow once they are in industry they will be able to retain their complicatedness in the job market that is what I can only say ok thank you over to you ma'am thank you so much sir hopefully I am audible good afternoon all today marks the conclusion of a remarkable event and I stand here with a heartfelt of gratitude to express our deepest thanks to all who have contributed to this success first and foremost I extend my heartfelt appreciation to our distinguished guest speaker resource person who is valuable inside and has been the driving force behind the success of this event next I would like to thank our management Manjappa Saundryan chairman Sonita Manjappa MG Kirtan Kumar Manjappa CEO Patik Shah Kirtan Manjappa Managing trustee and Varun Kumar Manjappa Managing trustee in their absence I would like to thank their support and guidance that they have provided to us next I would like to express my sincere thanks to our organizing committee especially Rekha ma'am and all the volunteers who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes thank you ma'am and all the volunteers here our special words of thanks goes out to our beloved Sims faculty members our beloved students and who has directly and indirectly supported to the platform of learning and sharing and also networking here one second on behalf of Sims I thank each one of you thank you sir and thanks all I think we can end the session over to Rekha ma'am Joshree okay so with your permission can we end the session yes Joshree I am requesting the NPT NPT anyways thank you one and all again yes sir no I am requesting NPT team to stop light streaming and end the session that I think we can wind up the session okay students thank you so much let's wind up the session you can all log off one second sir we will wind up the session we will leave the session