 who is going to be talking about the Professor Ramakrishna, I am sorry I had mentioned the name, Professor Ramakrishna who will be giving us an intro session about the gate portal that we have. So this is a portal that we have developed exclusively for gates, gate aspirants. So this is a very user friendly portal that our team has developed where we have video solutions and so can be a one stop space for gate aspirants. So we hope that all the experiences who have joined here today, please watch this session and take the details and share it with your students. It's going to be a fantastic opportunity for students to get the necessary help when if they are applying for the gate program. So with that I am handing it over to Professor Ram. Sir, please. Yes, you share the slides. Okay, also portal sir? Yeah, portal master. Gate or NPTEL, please. Okay, we will go through the main initiatives. Okay, so we're screening up the same to the desk. Okay, this is being visible. Okay, yeah. Okay, so thanks everybody for joining my name is Ramakrishna. I am a faculty at Electrical Department IIT Madras and also happened to coordinate the NPTEL activities since the past one year or so. So not many of you need introduction to NPTEL and of course you are a big part of our big family of NPTEL which makes things work and which made us grow from enrolment of some few hundreds to a few lakhs and there will be a lot more even now. So I will not really go into the details of this. We all know how we started off with three courses in 2014, 500 courses in 2021 and the current semester in January. What is the reason for that? I think everyone to be on mute. If you want to speak just raise your hand or take something in the chat window. So I'm assuming I'm audible and all that if you have any difficulties with that please let me know. Okay, so we all know so of the growth and in the current semester we are in July semester 2022 we are offering up to 622 courses. Okay and then we all know about domain certification and our efforts in translating our efforts into different languages to CSR support and also I directly come to the gate portal and why we came up with this initiative and what this portal offers for you and what is the new features that will come up. So we know about 9 lakh people appear for gate each year and it's useful for graduate admissions across India for M Tech courses, MSP research, in some cases recruitment in PSUs and so on. Okay so what is the objective of the gate portal here? So if you look at many of our discussion forums or the live sessions with students a typical question would be is this content enough if I do gate or why don't you solve some gate related questions or anything that would help them prepare well for the gate exam and of course since we are a big repository we were thinking of that for a long time and came up with the solution of can we make one you know because we have this huge repository of content we have a lot of people working for us in the form of research scholars who do the TA work and so on. So can we enable access to high quality which also can we make use of the existing NPTEL lectures to cover gate syllabus and not only that not just not just doing that we also have a platform now where we provide detailed video solutions of previous years gate exam. I'll show you a quick glimpse of this after I run through the slides. So the solutions will be comprehensive they'll not just be like you know tricks to solve they will teach you everything from the basics they will solve step by step on the board or on the writing device and towards the end also help the learners with some quick tricks to solve those problems so this will also help them the more they watch the videos each video will have that thing of reminding them of what is the basic concept so you watch more videos all the basic concepts will be ingrained into you and the more you do it to that you discover your own shortcut ways of solving problems right and then we'll so there's something which you are working on so we are expecting a launch on the 12th of august where we will have a personalized you know we can very people can take mock test they can do practice assignment they can just practice subjects across the topic or something so that launch we will also do over the youtube channel and then we will share with you those links so what is coming up is the following so we are linking gate syllabus to relevant NPTEL gate content we have video solutions and I actually go to the to the gate page now can you can you share with us so this is already visible okay good so it's it's very easy to go here this gate dot NPTEL dot ac dot in and here we just tell what what all we do and and much of this effort is being sponsored by the MADS labs from from Bengaluru to via their CSR grant okay so I just quickly click so if I go to syllabus mapping so there are a bunch of subjects here starting from computer science ECE civil doubly mechanical metallurgy chemistry and mathematics and as we are speaking we'll soon add up for two more subjects in the form of physics and chemical engineering okay so what does this this page do so if I click on say mechanical engineering and so these are all the topics which are covered in getting the gate syllabus right so you need to have to have expertise in some or all of these to to to crack the gate exam so if I click on fluid mechanics there might be some top some subtopics okay my fluid mechanics doesn't have but we see something else some more dynamics okay whatever I'll show you this in some other so all the all the lectures related to thermodynamics you can find it over here so just just click it and you will directly go to the relevant NPTEL video not the entire subject but that particular topic of of thermodynamics right so then these are been they have been done across several several papers say I go to ECE I click on analog circuits it will have several components of its own let's say I go to op amp circuits from a lot of questions come and you'll see videos directly linking you to per particular concept of the op amp for example amplifier summers differentiator so I don't really have to search through this entire NPTEL repository or that 30 hour video lectures to find me where do I learn about active filters all can be just just come here you click here and immediately the video of that particular lecture will be displayed so this is as I said done for most subjects couple of them are still adding up and we hope to you know get get it done in the next few weeks or so another important feature which I will show is the video solutions so I can sort it by year or by topic say I just want to look at solutions of of questions coming from say fluid mechanics so I'll have all the questions answered here so you just click here it will go to the appropriate page of the video solutions and all these solutions have been done by our research scholars at IIT Madras and other IITs and have been verified by the scholars themselves and there is also faculty who coordinates the entire effort for each subject to verify the quality of the content and as I mentioned earlier all these videos are are self-contained in themselves that you have the basic principles that will be mentioned while solving the problem each they will do a step by step solution will be written down and then towards the end there will be some shortcut tricks if needed to solve this particular problem so you can also select by year and say I just want to look at all the questions from say 2021 set one and everything goes here and we also solve questions from aptitude we also solve questions from mathematics okay so that is that is about the syllabus mapping and the video solutions what is coming up is these two things right so you have online assessment platform for practice so an end gate EE will now appear as a NOC course same thing with gate ME and so on so you'll have lists of each topic say network signals power systems and so on and at the end of each topic you will be able to take a practice assignment of five or six questions exactly similar to what happens in any NOC course okay and then at the end we will have a platform where you can take a practice test so for the moment we will start practice tests which will run from nine to six six nine eight to six p.m. every Sunday we can increase the frequency based on based on the number of users that we get so you can take a three hour practice test of course I will not restrict you to three hours you can do it anytime between nine and six and at six o'clock the just like an assignment it will close and then it will display either scores it will also display your scores across how many you got right how many you got wrong what topics and so on so all those fine fine grain details we will be putting up so just look watch out for that on the 12th of august so this will come up for EE EC and mechanical engineering so please and the others are getting soon getting populated and another feature also that since you also want this thing to be a little little you know active not just passive is we will have online assistance through mentors so these mentors essentially come from our prime minister research fellow scholars so there's a special category of people are funded by the prime minister's office directly to these are like really brilliant of our research scholars to to pursue their their their PhDs that I have at several IITs, ICERS, Central University and so on so these these people will be will be interacting live with with data aspirants once every week or depending on on the subject so gate EE might have like five or six sessions per week and each session will solve say problems related to say your power systems or signal systems and so on all that schedule will be put up so you can your students can come they can ask questions to this scholar these all are gate qualified these are all qualified their PhD qualified exams they are in the advanced stages of the research so they are fairly experienced in in in the subject they're fairly experienced in handling students because they do a lot of TA work internally also at their respective positions institutes right so we'll put up this schedule so make sure that you are advertising these things among your your students so that they can benefit by interacting and they can ask questions related to to get any any subject related questions or any general guidance which they may want with respect to cracking the gate exam everything they can interact directly with our our our research scholars and occasionally we'll also have faculty members who will be present in those in those meetings so I just stop here or take a pause and you know let you ask questions of how you would look at this portal what your expectations from this portal would be and and so on so that it'll help us because ultimately you or your students will be the end users of this of this portal so if you have any questions or suggestions please let us know please raise your hand or just type down your your questions requesting you to raise your hand or type your question in the chat window do you think that your students will be interested in such a portal you can share your thoughts also no voice I guess I was audible somebody says no voice uh no sir we can hear it okay okay I can also give you so I think the connection yeah hello yes yes sir yes sir thank you so much for a nice presentation you have covered all the things but sir my suggestion is that if we arrange one session for students then directly they will get the benefit of this yes workshop yes that is we have done that earlier we can do that again we'll also do a session on the 12th of august where there'll be a formal launch we'll send you a video link you can ask your students to to participate what we also highly encourage is to participate in those gate related live mentoring live mentoring sessions so once people are there they can get a little more first hand information they can also put up their demands or their suggestions for the portal this will work in progress so so we may need a lot of inputs from the end users also so that we will keep doing so keep keep keep watching for that starting next week or towards the end of next week we will do a lot of these live sessions so we just hope your students can can attend those sessions okay sir thank you thank you so much thanks any other questions or feedback so anything just write to us if not now later you can share this among your students and there's also on the on the portal there's also a little button for feedback you can you know give suggestions point out some errors there could be few errors because of obvious human errors of you know maybe some wrong copy paste or something would have happened we didn't cross check but you know ask your students to just access a portal report errors reports any suggestions or anything else that they would want to see on the portal thank you sir i am amid budhupath gap i am bhopal yes sir please go like to say it is very good initiative students are very happy when we are sharing in classes face to face mode and sharing on social media and it is also available on youtube channel so we have already shared the link of youtube channel so whatever we got as you are saying human errors and other things so we will give our feedback thank you sir yes sir thank you so much and please keep checking for our new launch on the mid of august so you can also start taking practice assignments and our three hour mock test and see your performance keep on improving your performance and so on yes sir so we will send out this youtube link to all the local chapter spoc so those who did not join today they can watch it later also yeah so if there aren't any more questions we can wind up the session yeah okay yeah thanks everybody for attending thank you sir thank you