 Studio team, please start streaming. Mom, you can start the session. Yeah, ma'am, can I start? Yeah, ma'am. Studio team, please start streaming. Yeah. A very good morning to one and all gathered here. A warm welcome to our principal, sir, Dr. S. Udyakumar Garu, faculty, and all the students of Gitanjali College of Engineering and Technology. The highest welcome to NPTEL coordinator, Priyadarsini madam, and her team from IIT Madras. Gitanjali College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, has been a local chapter since 2014. And we have many students and faculty enrolled for these courses. The main objective of this NPTEL awareness is to create a maximum awareness among faculty members and students about NPTEL and about its various initiatives by inculcating more of self-learning. Now I request our principal, sir, to provide a brief information about our college. Please, sir. Thank you, Dr. Pooja. Hope I am audible. Yes, sir, audible. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Pooja, once again. Distinguished guests from the NPTEL team from Madras, Chennai, and my colleagues, all of you, and my dear students. Very good morning to you all. I thank the organizers for giving me this opportunity to speak to you all. A brief about the college is, you know, the college was started in the year 2005 with an intake of 180 students with CSC, ECE, and IT, each BTEC program with 60 intake. And subsequently, the college has been progressing well. And today we have an intake of 1080 and AACT recently sanctioned two more sections and hopefully it will be 1200 this academic year. Incidentally, we also got all our programs, all eligible programs accredited. BTEC, ECE has been accredited since 2012, 15, 18, 21, and again recently in 22. Same is the case with the ECE and Tripoli has been accredited since 2015 onwards. And IT program, of course, in between we have closed it, though it was accredited earlier. But again, we started it again, of course, we got it merged into CSC. And you know, the college has, the sibling meeting program has also been accredited in 22. We started the program in 2014 because of the COVID break. You know, they didn't conduct the visit and they conducted only in 21. In fact, they conducted the visit and 21 ending. We got our accreditation, a BTEC program. And of course the college has one intake program. Unfortunately, students are not, many students are not joining the, I mean, that's one aspect. And therefore it has not been accredited because it is not eligible for accreditation. We have also got the other programs in computer science emerging areas such as AIML, then data sciences and cybersecurity. And the college has been accredited by NAC with A grade in 2017. And again in 2022 we got A plus grade. We have, you know, we have executed research projects funded to the tune of about 1.5 crores from funding agencies such as DST, DRDO, you know, and a few tech web projects. So about 1.5 lakhs, 1.5 crore rupees projects have been executed through funding and internal funding. Of course we have spent about something like 40 lakhs or so. And all together, you know, 1.9 crores of projects have been executed. And our placements record of the college, if you look at it, last year for 22 graduates, about 1500 plus offers have been made. And for the 23 graduates, 1400 plus offers have been made. And when I say offers, of course there are multiple offers. For 22 batch, we had about 678 students have been placed. And this year it is about 650 plus students have been placed for 23 batch. And with regard to, you know, 80, we have about 85 PhDs in the college and out of about 330 faculty members. And I think we have been doing fairly well. The very purpose of this, I'm glad that, you know, we have, I mean, Pooja has organized this program with regard to the NPTEL. See, I personally feel, you know, apart from self-learning, it also gives our faculty members, you know, whenever you are teaching a course for the first time. If you go through NPTEL program of a course, and then, you know, you start working on that. And I think that gives immense confidence for the faculty members whenever they teach a course for the first time. You know, first time when I teach a course, I'm sure it's not going to be easier. You know, for example, many of us have taught courses in computer science, which we have not studied in the years. You know, for example, cryptography and security is one course I didn't study earlier during my, you know, MTech program of computer science. And whereas, you know, I have to teach that course and I taught that course. So probably this kind of NPTEL lectures would give a long, you know, would go a long way in helping the faculty members in updating their skillset and gives a lot of confidence to them. Same is the case for students too. It provides a lot of self-learning, you know, not all teachers are alike. You know, some teachers probably are not able to deliver the goods. We do understand that, you know, it is, it is but natural, you know, particularly when a teacher is, when a fresh faculty member has been brought into the college. You know, they find it very difficult to deal with this in new course. And you know, of course, in our college, we don't give anybody who joins the college immediately a course. We normally put them on, you know, for five years, they attend the senior faculty member's courses. Only after five years, they will be given a degree course. But usually it is not the case with many colleges. So I, in fact, it goes a long way, you know, NPTEL program. And I once again thank you, organizers, for giving me this opportunity to address you all. And I wish all the best, you know, and have a great learning through NPTEL. Thank you. Thank you, Pujya. Thank you so much, sir, for your precious time. Thank you, sir. Yeah, now we will, I welcome Shiv Shankar Das sir to just present presentation of awareness programs. Yeah, welcome, sir. Respected principal sir, Dr. Pujya, other faculty members and the students who are connected to this program through YouTube. A very good morning to everyone of you. I thank the college to come forward and take initiative to organize the workshop for the benefit of the new as well as maybe new learners or maybe the new colleges who are participating in this NPTEL initiative. For the first time. So during the, say, next one hour or one and a half hours, I'll take you through the complete journey from when NPTEL started, how it is operating at this current of time, at this point of time. What all different initiatives that have been initiated by NPTEL for the benefit of the students and so on. During the course of training talk, I'll be very happy to take any questions that you may have or doubts you may have. Just in case of any doubt, please post it into the YouTube chat box so that we can take the questions as we progress through the lectures. Okay, let me share my screen first. Okay. We are organizing this program in association with Gitanjali College of Engineering and Technology Telangana. This will be the outline of my talk today. Introduction to NPTEL and Swayam, NPTEL online certification, credit transfer mechanism, domain certification, faculty development program, internship, soft skill training, get protocol. These are the additional, you can say, initiatives that have been started by NPTEL. Then NPTEL, Local Chapter Issues, NPTEL Plus, another initiative by NPTEL on self-paced courses. And the Prime Permits will also talk about IIT Madras 4 years BS degree program, which is an off-campus model which facilitates anyone who is currently undergoing any program in a regular program in any college or university to pursue a second degree from IIT Madras. This is not a sports certification, but it's a regular degree. So NPTEL is an acronym, National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning. We are in our 28th year of our activities. We started our journey in 2003 with seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore joining hands to offer for create contents and make it available for the learner communities across the globe. Primarily for the self-learning purpose. Say from 2014, we changed our mode of operation and started offering the certification. That is, after completion of the course, the student should be or the learner should be able to provide a tangible output in the form of a certificate to the outside world, saying that, okay, see, I have done this course and this is my level of knowledge or some tragedy. So the NPTEL started the vision to provide high quality affordable education at large scale. Definitely during the first phase, we started only developing the video contents and some courses in the waveform. That is a PDF document with some sort of an animation and all which can be used as a reference material. From 2014, as we said that we have started course level certification programs and also started promoting the use and adoption of these courses by colleges, autonomous colleges and universities for training transfer as was mandated by the AICP and UGC that were higher education regulators. Okay. So during the last 20 years, we have actually developed more than 3000 courses. These contents are available through YouTube. You can see the number of subscribers. It's more than 4.5 million. That's a phenomenal number with 1.6 billion plus viewers who are accessing these contents. And there are some contents which are actually we have also created the English subtitles for some lectures. And you can see the number is more than 62,000 hours of videos have been converted into lectures, English subtitles. Now, if we just talk about the benefits of NPTEL courses, one may definitely ask that, okay, I have already enrolled into a regular classroom program. Why should I do NPTEL courses? Now, these NPTEL courses are curriculum based courses which provides a learn a strong fundamentals. So many of our students will be accessing the libraries just for, say, reading extra materials and all. Here, NPTEL contents which are coming from the best faculty members across the country and actually looking into the deeper perspective of the fundamental concepts will give a better opportunity for the learners to know the concepts much better here. If any field is not, say, taken for the grid transfer, even this can be considered as very good resources for learning the content concepts with strong fundamentals. We are offering the courses from the emerging areas. You know, always there is a gap between what industry wants and what academia offers. Just because the way industrial, say, perspective is changing with every passing year because of the changes or the newer emerging technologies being implemented in every aspect of the operation, the academic curriculums are not changed in that case. So there is always a gap between what industry wants and what academics offers. Since NPTEL takes the leverage of offering, say, courses from the emerging areas, be it right now we are talking about AIML everywhere, but NPTEL started offering these courses much ahead before other institutes started offering these courses. So we are not only offering the courses from AIML, but also offering the courses from other emerging areas like credit printing, blockchain, cyber security. All these areas are, we have got good number of courses coming from these areas which possibly makes the students or the learners more equipped or better equipped to get an opportunity in the job market. We are also offering that soft skill and language based courses which will improve the confidence levels of the learners before they face the interviews. Moreover, once they go for the interview, if they can show that we have done some courses which are not mandated by the college to get your degree, but an additional course as part of your own interest that puts you in a different bracket and the employer's perspective really takes into account of that. If tomorrow you are asked to work in an area where you need different knowledge, what you do not possess at this point of time, at least you have the interest to learn it on yourself. So these certificates from IITs and IICs will definitely improve your internship or job prospects. Then from 2016 to higher education regulators, AICP and UGC has given a mandate like the autonomous colleges and the universities are free to take up to 20% of the credits from NPTEL or SWAM courses. We will talk little more about this in the coming slides. They have also, AICP has also given a mandate like if they complete 20 extra credit points from earn 20 extra credit points through SWAM link courses, they can earn a honors degree. We take honors or maybe a minor degree in other disciplines depending on the type of courses they have done. If someone is interested to pursue a career in public sector and undertakings or maybe for go for the higher studies, say pursuing their master's program in any Indian universities, then they would need a gate qualification that they should be successfully completing the gate with certain personnel. Here NPTEL contents are coming from IIT faculties who are also connected with or they have a fair idea about what goes on in the gate, what type of questions are asked. So some of these courses which are actually linked to gate services that type of level of fundamentals are covered here and also we have prepared a gate portal which will show you little later. If someone is interested for doing better in the gate examination, they can actually take help of the gate portal for better preparation instead of going to a regular coaching classes. Then for the career advancement of the faculty members, we are offering the courses, particularly the advanced level courses offered in the NPTEL platform or SWAM platform are actually recognized as faculty development program as part of our MOU with AICT. So this can be used for the career advancement or promotion purpose by the faculty members. The people those were in the industry or academia even, there is a need as principal so I was rightly pointing out that at some point maybe if you just go back 5-10 years back, certain subjects which are of very important these days were not taught as part of the regular curriculum in the colleges at that point, at that point of time. So there is a need to reskill or upskill ourselves as time progresses because of the changing technologies. Now we are saying that we are offering online certification programs is a course level program certifications. But how do we offer the courses? We need a platform. So SWAM is the platform through which all Indian MOOCs, all online courses which are offered in India are actually available. SWAM is an acronym that is study waves of active learning for the young aspiring minds. This platform is an umbrella where you have got 9 national coordinators who are targeting the contents related to a specified group of learners. Now say if you are looking for engineering education, definitely NPTEL is the national coordinator to take care of the year needs, engineering curriculum. Similarly other coordinators are there like NIS, NCRT takes care of the school children's requirement for the out of school children, IGNO and NITTR, they are taking care of the requirement of the out of school children. For the undergraduate and postgraduate, you see NPTEL, AICP, CEC or UGC and IIM, Bangalore are the national coordinators. So all courses which are coming from NPTEL since they are offered under the SWAM platform, they are also called as SWAM courses or we can say SWAM NPTEL courses. So NPTEL online certification started in 2014, we follow the MOOCs format that is massive open online courses. Massive means the number of students or the learners who can enroll into the course is not limited by the size of brick and mortar classroom, but you can have 100 or hundreds of thousands of students enrolling in a course and you can see the number of courses, number of enrolled candidates in certain courses, popular courses in the coming slides. Then you have got online, that means the delivery takes place in an online mode, that is if I have the internet connectivity, I can access it. What is the cost? Then the third component is open, that means the contents are open. Anyone who is interested and has got internet connectivity can enroll into the course and access the contents and see that is courses. These are structured courses as it is done in a regular university structure. That is it has got a start date. It has a end date. Every week there is a schedule that these many hours of video lectures will be provided. There will be interactive session, there will be interaction between the faculty and the prospective learners. You will have assessment. You will have supplementary study materials. So whatever you follow in a regular classroom, the same four quadrant approach will be followed here and these courses can be done in a triple A model. That is it can be done by anyone from anywhere at the comfort of his or her time. That is any type. So irrespective of whether the learner is associated with an academic institution. He or she is in the job market or they may be a retired professional or a homemaker. Anyone who is interested in learning, they are free and welcome to attend these courses. These courses are offered during January to say April or June or July to December, aligning with the semester systems of Indian universities. As we said that since the NPTEL courses are offered through the SWAM platform, so all of our courses are SWAM courses. Now, okay, we know that okay, we are interested in say NPTEL course. Now first I need to know what are the courses that are forthcoming for say July semester. How do I know the tentative course list and timelines are published ahead of time through this link. If I just peek onto this link, it will take me to the semester related information. So semester information here. So if I am looking for the July run courses, I can see the tentative course list here. Here you have got the timelines given as well as we are currently offering about 690 plus courses. All these courses whether they are from a particular branch, which branch they are associated with or discipline they are associated with. Course name, name of the faculty, then you have got, sorry, which institute that is offering the course, the duration of the course, whether the course is new or rerun, start date, end date, examination date, enrollment closing date, examination registration date. All these details are provided here, including whether this undergraduate or postgraduate level and the core or elective course, all data are given. So once I am just gone through this course list, then I can think about, I have decided which course to take. Then I will go to the portal for enrollment purpose. When the enrollment starts, for the July run courses, the enrollment starts by mid of May. And for the January run courses, the course will start from, enrollment will start from November. So once I have identified the course, I know the timeline. Now once the course opens for enrollment in May or November, I will go to the swam.gov.in portal and enroll into the course. How do the enrollment takes place? Here I can just click on to the all courses. Here all course details are provided. See here it is NPTEL course. This is EGC course. There could be some other agency. This is AICT course. So if I am looking for only NPTEL course, I will select NPTEL. I will put a filter here that I am looking for only NPTEL course. Then if I want to know, I am looking for different varieties of courses are there. Whether I am looking for four weeks, eight weeks or 12 week courses. These are the three formats we provide. Say I am selecting a 12 week course. If I am interested to select a course from a particular branch, then I can select say I am looking for mathematical sciences. Which of the courses are available from maths and science group? These courses are listed here. Say I am selecting a course like maybe easier type course I will take. Say engineering mathematics I will take. I am interested to join into this course. How do I join? See in this page it is written. Engineering mathematics 1. The course is offered by IIT Kharagpur faculty. NPTEL is offering the course. It is a 12 week course. Enrollment starts on 24th of July and ends on 31st of July. That is one week into the course. Examination is scheduled on 28th October. These all data are important. I will tell you later. Exam registration will end by 18th of August. So once I have just gone through the course card. Through the course card, I have taken the basic information. If I am looking for joining into the course, I will click onto the course card. And it will show me that these courses currently it has got 809 learners enrolling into the course. All these details are provided here about the course. Layout of the course that is course syllabus is provided. Books and references, instructor biographies, and how the certification will be provided. All these things will be discussing today. There will be also an introductory video. I need to just go through the video, which is up to five minutes. But the faculty might have discussed about what they are going to teach and what is the learning outcome of this particular program. For some courses, which are the advanced level courses, you will find that here at the end, there will be written a separate word will be written in red color that it is an AICT approved FDP course, which are the course where that particular word will be written. The courses which are in the advanced domain or elective, some of the elective courses will have that tag. That means these courses are approved by AICT for faculty development program purpose. Now, if I have satisfied myself that this is the course I am looking for, I will just click onto the join button. Then once I click onto the join button, it will give me certain options. I would prefer to go through the Google link or Gmail. I use my Gmail to enroll into the course. So I click my personal Gmail ID. It takes to the personal page. That is my name, mobile number, email ID, which age group. I can select from the dropdown menu. It starts from 13. It goes up to 100. Gender I can select. Country I am deciding that I will select. Pin code, state, city district. All these are dropdown menus. Profession. There could be four professions. You could be student, faculty, employed, and other. For the student and faculty, the second question will be coming. That way, since both of these categories are connected with some or other academic institution. So the next question will be there. Are you from a Swyam local chapter? Okay. For the employed, it's not required for them. We are working with certain industry partners. So that will be asked like if you are from an industry associate. NPTEL industry associate. That will talk a little later. Or it could be other also. Then academic bank of credit. That is primarily for the economic transfer mechanism. Here it is asked that part of the Swyam local chapter. If your college is a local chapter, select ES and from the dropdown menu of that particular state, select your college name. Okay. So that the college will have access to your data. They know, okay, you are from this college and you have enrolled for these all courses. Then you have to provide your roll number. Degree that you are pursuing. Department here. You may say that, okay, you are saying you are pursuing a degree in Tripoli. But you don't find, okay, Tripoli is not there. We have basically provided some, say, a few, you can say, disciplines. If you find that, okay, your discipline is not available here. Put the discipline that closely resembles or closely matches with your current discipline. Like Tripoli, they can select electrical engineering or electronics engineering and so on. After selecting the closest discipline, select your study here, which you are actually studying at this point of time. Then select these two. I agree to Swyam terms and service and I agree to follow the owner code. Then join the course. Since I have enrolled in a multiple number of courses, so it is asking that update profile and join the course. Now I have successfully enrolled into the course and I got the first message. Thank you for registering into the, registering for the course. Click the announcement tab for important information. What all things are there? Once I joined into the course and as the course starts, you will find under the course outline section, there will be right now it is week zero. Under week zero, you may find that there are some practice, say assignments. Basically this gives some idea like what are the basic prerequisites if any, if you need to have certain knowledge to understand these courses. So related to that basic understanding, some questions might be put. Otherwise, once the course is live, it goes into the say week one, week two, week three. You will find all weekly videos here. Okay, first there will be five or six videos, then there will be weekly assignments. What are the other things you will find? You find there is an announcement section. This is an announcement section I am seeing. So every week, whatever we do, whether we release the video, weekly assignments and all, all those announcements will be posted here. I will get the announcement in the course page as well as same announcement will be passed on to my personal email ID. So from, if I check my email ID, then periodically it will be updated what all activities are going on into the NPTEL front. Then in a classroom structure, maybe I'll talk about this thing a little later. I'll first go to the slide. So enrollment in any course is possible irrespective of your current branch of study. That means whether I am studying in a mechanical engineering or maybe electrical engineering for any other branch. Say humanities I am pursuing certain degree, but if say data science interests me, I can definitely take the course from data science irrespective of what I am currently doing. And also number of courses that I can enroll for learning is there is no limit to that. I can enroll into multiple courses for learning purpose and the cost is absolutely zero. It's free of cost. But for certification, definitely you chart certain amount. Enrollment, although it takes place from your home, at least you can do the course from your home, since these are pre-recorded lectures, but for the examination registration, which takes place to a separate portal, you have to do it from the NPTEL portal. Okay. So enrollment takes place through your swam.gov.in, but for the exam registration, you will be provided. All the enrolled candidates will be provided a separate link later through NPTEL, which you have to use it for registration. Now the course features. Why I stopped at that point in a swam portal is that after going through these slides, again, we will go back to that particular swam portal link so that we can now correlate what we are talking here and how it is reflected there. So duration of the courses are actually four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks. That is the runtime duration. And in terms of hours, these are 10-hour courses, 20-hour courses, or 30-hour courses, respectively. That means every week we are considering 2.5 hours of lecture. Okay. It's not a one-hour lecture that we usually face in a regular classroom structure. These are little smaller, maybe 30 minutes of duration so that it becomes easy for the learners to download the videos and study. Okay. So what are the four quadrants we were talking about in a classroom scenario? What we see is a pre-recorded video lectures that are provided. You can read it time and again just if you have any doubts. Then after going through the videos, all queries related to your lecture can be actually, you can relate it to the faculty through a web-based interactive forum. That is you post your queries through the forum and the course instructor and the teaching assistants who are associated with the course will respond to your queries through forum. Periodically, the faculty is also available through YouTube in a live session. The way we are conducting today's session. Similarly, the faculty will be available for one-hour interaction once in a month when the learners who are connected in the YouTube, they can actually post their queries and the questions will be picked up from there and answered. That is how interaction will take place because the learners are scattered across not only India but across the globe. Supplementary study materials are also provided in the form of slides, text transcription, free web resources, whatever it is. These are provided. So after going through the lecture videos, if they have got any doubt, they'll interact with the faculty through the web-based interaction. Then they'll go through the supplementary study materials to get deeper understanding of the particular subject. Then they will solve a set of questions which are given to the students or the learners as part of testing their understanding of that week's video. These are weekly assignments. Additionally, every week there will be some problem-solving sessions that are conducted by the PMRF scholars. So every week you have got four components, recorded lecture. For doubt clearing, you have got web-based interaction. You have got supplementary study material in the form of slide, text transcripts, third component. And the fourth component is weekly assignments. So these are usually computer-graded. Usually. That means you can have multiple choice of questions, maybe numerical problems, two false type of problems, or maybe the teacher will ask you to write a small para for certain courses. Okay. So these are graded out of 100. Each assignment will be graded out of 100. Now say if you are enrolling for eight weeks or 20-hour course, that means these eight weeks, there are eight assignments, 800 marks for 30-hour course, 12 assignments, 1200 marks, and 400 marks for four assignments in a 10-hour course. That is how it goes on. Okay. And if you just look at here, here you can see, ask a question is the forum where you will be, the learners can actually post their queries here and this will be periodically responded by the faculty. Okay. So after this, once you say that every assignment is graded out of 100, you get the score. You need to see the score. That is in the progress tab, you will see that, okay, when I have enrolled my MLID name and here assessment score, on a weekly basis, the assessment scores out of 100, it will be reflected. Okay. Sorry. Okay. This is where we stop. Then comes your next. Certification examination features. I have enrolled into the course. I have enrolled into the whole four quadrants. Now I am looking for a certification examination. I want to write the certification exam. Certification exams are different from the way we learn. We learn it from the comfort of my home, but examination, I have to physically come to an exam center because these are proctored in-person center-based exam. But exam centers are spread across the country. We conduct the examination on a specified date. That is, once we enrolled into the course, in the course tab, or course page itself, it will be written when the exam will be conducted. On a particular date, exams are conducted in two sessions. One in the forum, that is between 9 to 12 in the afternoon, between 2 to 5. Mode of examination, they could be online or offline. In both the cases, the questions paper will be appearing on the screen, computer screen before me. Online exam, I will be answering into the same computer. Whereas for the offline, although questions will be appearing in the computer, I will be given answers scripts, physical answers scripts where I have to respond or answer to the questions. That's the only difference. Examination fee, as we said, for learning purpose, you can enroll into multiple courses and you don't have to pay anything. But for the certification, course level certification examination, registered by paying a fee of 1000 rupees per course, irrespective of the course duration. That is whether it's 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks, the fee remains same. However, SCSTN, persons with disability, with more than 40% disability cases, we provide partial fee waiver. That is 50% fee waiver is available for such candidates. Certification, we say that, we have got now two components. Weekly assignments are graded out of 100, then there is a certification examination. Now, for certification purpose, the final certificate, what it will be getting, it has got two components. Some part of the assignment score is reflected here, some part comes from the final examination. Now, if we consider there are some courses which are non-programming or majority of the courses are non-programming based. There, final examination which is out of say 50 for 4 weeks or 10 hour courses or 100 for 8 weeks and 12 week courses, that is 20 hours and 30 hour courses will have full marks of 100. 75% of the final score in the examination will be taken into the final certification score. That is whatever I get in the final certification, 75% will be reflected in my certificate. 25% will be coming from the assignment score which will be calculated. Say I have taken a course of 8 weeks or 20 hours, so there are 8 assignments of 100 marks each. We will be only considering the best 6 assignment score, that is out of 600 what is my score, taken average out of 100 what is the score and 25% from there will be directly reflected in my certificate. If I have not submitted even the 6 assignments for 8 weeks course, if I have submitted say 4 in the remaining courses, 2 courses will be considered as I have got 0. So, score out of 400 will be considered as score out of 600 and accordingly the assignment score of 25% will be calculated from there. For the programming course the final certification score will have only 50% weighted. Divining 25% will go for the non-proctor programming test, that is before the examination on a particular date, it will be publicized before and will be having a 2 sessions on which we will be conducting the programming test during the day time and one in the evening. Okay, so the learners who are taking these programming courses can either opt to write programming test during the day time or in the night time or they can write whichever score they get higher from there 25% will be taken and put into the certification. So, as we said that for each assignment has got 100 marks, we take 25% of the average score from the assignment for 8 weeks courses we will only consider the best 3, 6 and 8 assignment scores respectively. Exam results after the exam is completed we publish the exam results within a period of 30 days certificates are actually signed by the institute which is offering the course and they are having a QR code so that it is verifiable. You don't have to send the certificates to us for verification purpose. Certifications criteria is that one needs to get at least 40% score individually in the average assignment score and the final certification that is if I have taken a 12 week course and I have only say provided or submitted 6 courses 6 assignments out of the minimum requirement was A then the score out of 600 will be calculated as score out of 800 and that average score should not be falling below so here is a mistake here at least I should be getting 30 out of 75 okay not 40, 30 out of 75 in the final exam that is 40% score I should be getting there in the final exam and 10 out of 25 in the assignment score. We have got 5 and ready the consolidated score is considered for calculation of my grading if the total consolidated score is less than 40 I am considered unsuccessful and I don't get a certificate. For scores between 45, 40 to 59 it is successfully completed. 60 to 100 score we put a light tag on the top of the certificate additionally for scores between 75 to 89 we put a silver badge here 90 to 100 we put a cold badge some candidates who are doing exception in your well in the course are also given a top or if their score is within top 1% 2% or 5% so this is how a sample certificate will look like it will carry the photograph of the candidates name, course, consolidated score, assignment score exam score for programming courses additional component will come as in addition to online assignment there will be a proctor program non-proctor programming test also that will be reflected total number of candidates who are certified in the course that number will be given when this course was offered the institute which offered the course year roll number keyword code all data will be provided then the top is put just because to show that this candidate has scored something between 60 to 100 these gold badge indicates that the score is between say 90 to 100 okay so what are the points to be remembered important points while enrolling if your college is a local chapter please ensure that you select your college name from the drop down menu NPTEL always identifies the learner by their unique email ID so during the run or during the run time or even learning phase whenever you are actually taking the courses from NPTEL if you want that okay you should have access to all your previous data you should always use the same email ID for learning purposes and also ensure that whichever email ID that you use for course enrollment that same email ID use it for the exam registration otherwise your scores out of your assignments will not be coming or reflected into the final certification and will not be getting certificate check the exam dates beforehand so that if you want to take multiple courses say for certification purpose you should select the courses in such a way not more than two courses has got the same exam dates and since this certificates what you get from the NPTEL on successful completion of the courses you are going to use it for credit transfer or maybe for use it for job opportunities or internship you should always ensure that you upload a proper formal photograph passport size photograph during the exam registration because we find many of the students they put it a very different thing which are not very looks pleasing maximum two exam sessions can be taken part day and six exams per semester for certification will show you in a semester will conduct the exam on three days two sessions every day morning afternoon so you can take actually two exam one in the morning on the afternoon and six exams maximum in a semester morning examination usually the courses where you might have to use the calculators please note that physical calculators are not permitted in the examination all you will have to use the on-screen calculators during the examination and once you register for the exam before the once the all tickets are released you will be getting a link to the you can say for practice purpose will be giving you the link of the calculator so you may actually note it down and practice before and during the assignment phase so that you are comfortable in the examination hall in using the online on-screen calculator if your college is taking these courses for credit transfer please ensure that you inform the number of candidates who are likely to write the examination from your college before and to the NPTEL so that NPTEL can make necessary arrangement logistic arrangement for conduct or providing an exam center nearest to your college otherwise if you get the data at the very last moment and if there are more number of students more than what NPTEL can accommodate in a say online environment then there could be multiple other days that means the exam could be shifted to some other date than what is specified or you may have to be relocated to the exam center which is far off from your local city please note that this time 12 week exam registration dates are closing with the first set of 4 and 8 week courses this is important this is our timeline we have 3 variation of courses 4 weeks 8 weeks and 12 weeks all 12 week courses and a set of 4 weeks and set of 8 weeks few 4 weeks few 8 weeks and all 12 weeks courses are starting from 24th of July whose enrollment will be closing on 31st of July ok now here the 4 week courses will be first 4 weeks courses will start on 24th July but will end within a month's time 8 week course will end by September and the examination for these 2 first set of say 4 weeks and 8 week courses will be conducted on 24th September in 2 sessions so if you are planning to take 2 courses from these select the courses in such a way that maximum 2 exams can be taken on 24th September you may say which session I should be writing on the same date exams are there since we will be conducting the exam on using 2 different set of question papers of equal toughness levels you may actually write 1 exam in the forum 1 exam in the afternoon that's how we can start 2nd set of 4 weeks 2nd set of 8 weeks courses will start in a delayed manner that is after 1 month it will start in August so these 3 courses setup courses all 12 weeks and 2nd set of 4 and 8 weeks courses will have exam on a scheduled date of 28th and 29th October 2023 so there are 4 sessions available we can actually write 4 examinations on those 4 2 days 4 slots exam registration form is already open into the portal examination registration closes on 14th August for the 1st set of 4 weeks 8 weeks and 11th September for other courses with late fee you can actually take a privilege of up to maximum 4 days delay for joining the course first you should check the course list either through NPTEL.AC.IN portal if I just see go here NPTEL.AC.IN portal scroll down here you have got the same list of courses as well as the timelines so you can either check from these timelines or you can see from the NPTEL semester information page once you have selected the course just check whether it is a rerun course or new course if it is a rerun course then these courses data that is the video lectures one set of assignment questions they are already available into the portal so instead of waiting till the time when the courses are live into the portal you can for the rerun courses you can access the contents and start preparing beforehand only when the course is live at that point of time answer to the assignment questions and if you have got it out interact with the faculty that is what you can do okay what you can do here NPTEL.AC.IN courses here say you are taking a course on say internet of things say design introduction to internet of things say I am taking this course this is a rerun course is available for enrollment now from download section what all things I can see I can see all the videos here I can see also a set of assignments PV has done whatever assignment was provided a set of assignment is given here so that the first time learners can actually look into the assignment questions here so they know after going through the videos what type of assignment questions are expected please let note that every semester the assignment questions will be different the same assignment questions will not be replicated what else you get from this download section you get the transcripts in addition to the video lecture video you can definitely download all the videos here additionally you can also download the tricks transcript that is this you can see English text transcript not only that English there are few other languages this text has been converted and you can download the contents in any of these languages if it is available ok so from the download section for a read-on course you can get supplementary study materials in the form of text transcript either English or in your local language you can also get you will be getting actually here lecture videos you will also get some supplementary study materials here also in that runtime phases ok once you have enrolled into the course every week you are assigning your submitting your assignments you are seeing your score from the portal then if you are looking for certification examination click on to the exam link what has been provided to you through email it will be something like examform.npdl.sc.in it will take you to the exam form which is a different portal other than the swim here you can select and fill up the form ok by paying the fee here you will be asked to provide your choice of examination centers and all now we have just taken you through the how NPTEL courses are being offered I do not see any questions appearing in the YouTube either you are not following or you know the things properly so I would encourage you to write into the portal if you have got any doubt you can take the questions during the 20 years of our journey we have actually offered 5372 courses with more than 2.3 learners enrolling into the course and 28.6 lakh class learners registering for the examination ok in the upcoming semester we are offering 690 class courses that I have shown you from the list say 2014 onwards online certification how our journey had been you can just have a look on a yearly basis we have shown in 2014 we started with 3 courses with 1.1 lakh enrolment and 3000 plus exam registration that was during January to April semester alone one semester alone we had 665 courses with more than 24 lakhs enrolment and 5.16 lakhs exam registration we can say there is a phenomenal growth in our activities during this time we are offering about 692 courses which of the domains areas from which we are offering the courses it's not that just because IITs are offering our courses are limited to only 4 branches of engineering no we are offering courses from diverse fields whether it is Humanities Social Sciences Management Biological Sciences you can say basic sciences law some of the law courses we are offering even earth sciences we are offering courses from economy psychology all domains and the numbers are gradually increasing you can see the courses coming from computer science is almost at par with our Humanities Social Sciences courses 20 exam cities where we have maximum exam registration you can see Chennai, Konvathur Hyderabad starts and goes up to Ganesha why we are telling that if your college is taking the courses for exam registration kindly alert NPTEL because these numbers once it is reported at the last moment it's NPTEL it's a very difficult scenario for the NPTEL to arrange these many seats for these candidates in a particular city because TCS our exam partner has a limitation on how many notes can be provided in a particular city so under such circumstances what we try to do we provide the examination on alternate dates sometimes these classes with our exam schedule of regular universities that creates a problem otherwise we have to ship the students to other cities where they are available so that is a challenge we are we expect that if your college is taking the courses for credit transfer kindly alert NPTEL beforehand or ask the students to register into the portal exam registration portal without waiting till the last moment examination registration we have shown exam attendance percentage is around 90 percent that's you can see even it is not a job it does directly does not do a job but even if you compare the NPTEL exam registration attendance percentage is much higher than any other examination that are organized for directly providing job opportunities past percentage had been usually 80 to 90 percent but after the COVID there is a slight deep because of the enforcement of individual past percentage of 40 percent in assignment and final examination possibly students expect that all assignment questions will be asked in the final exam no it is not like that there will be deviation some assignment questions assignment type of questions may be asked in assignment we expect that you explore the actually you learn the things properly solve the problems yourself you may take the help of your faculty member who is acting as a mentor of you in a college but solve the problems yourself so that if you are asked a similar questions with quick data in the final examination you will be able to solve it otherwise you may get good marks in the assignment but if the similar questions with the slightly tweak data is put into final exam what we find that students who are doing very well in the assignment same students when similar questions are asked in the final exam they do not perform that well so that indicates that students might have taken the help of some someone else either their PR group or faculty which should be discouraged examination registration statistics has been very consistent across gender basis is 40 to 60 it has been since beginning we are following this trend this is very good reasons for taking the courses we primarily see there are two reasons where the NPTEL courses are being taken by the learners definitely one is for the credits second one is that they want to update the knowledge that is whatever is required for the job opportunities they take those courses and for getting a job internship or update their domain knowledge other than that there are some students or learners particularly the researchers and all they take some advanced level courses for preparation of the competitive exam all these are the reasons which have been cited by the learners once you ask for the feedback if you just see the top 20 courses where maximum enrollment one registration was reported during January you find mostly they are from the areas where you have got better job opportunities at this point of time whether it was programming in Java, Python you can say artificial intelligence data science, IOT and similarly you get a lot of requirements for you can say some of the soft skill courses are extremely popular so enrollment and exam registration are primarily on those courses where you have got better job opportunities possibly as we said that to help the students in addition to the forum and periodic life session with the faculty we also engage the PMRF scholars who will be interacting with the learners on a weekly basis and organizing the problem solving sessions this is extremely beneficial for the courses where you have got good mathematical background requirement so that the students can actually know how the assignment problems have to be solved or if there is any gap in understanding of the course lectures they can be sorted out through the PMRF Scholar which has been extremely beneficial as we have been getting the response from the students who have undergone these courses some of these feedbacks we are already reporting it into our social media handles you can just see how the students are reporting that the benefit they are getting through this PMRF Scholar's life session every week we do now if you are a learner in a college we expect that okay you must be pursuing or you might be planning to do say either higher studies or going for the job if you feel that okay after you complete your studies in the college you are looking for job in a particular area then how do you prepare for that you may be taking the courses from here and there but we try to give you a direct path suppose you are looking for a say working for pursuing your career in the data science domain then we try to provide you a direction like what all the courses that you should do within a period of say 3 years time so that you can have enough expertise on that particular domain so keeping the requirement or just to assist the learners in a directed path of learning we have created NPTEL domain scholars where we have specified say out of 12 disciplines we have created 51 domains under each domain we have got some say 4 courses and a few elective courses total of about 60 weeks of learning is required if you can complete this set of 4 and elective courses within a period of 3 years with an average score of 60 if you get a domain scholar certificate similarly if you are actually associated with us for a longer time and taking the courses on every semester one or more courses then depending on your performance and the number of courses or your association with NPTEL we also recognize the learners as NPTEL superstars evangelists, motivated learners enthusiasts, discipline stars and believers if you have taken 4, 5 or 6 exams in a semester and you are proper in at least 3 exams I will show you the numbers this is not a very small number a good number of learners actually take these courses then you are rated as NPTEL superstars similarly if you are present in at least 18 exam in 4 years or 8 semester say you are in a 4 years BTEC program and if you are present in at least 18 exams and past at least 2, 3rd of the courses appear you are evangelist similar criteria are there for the other category of learners and these learners are recognized as NPTEL superstars we may just look at the domains a little closer why we are putting stress on NPTEL domain because this is a learner an expertize of foundation in an area of interest where he or she wants to pursue the future career okay how you can do you have got 4 and elective courses to be completed within 3 years time if you just look at the domain page you have got NPTEL.ac.in slash domains here browse your domains and scholars you can see here different domains say civil engineering I am looking for structural analysis domain here I need to have 60 weeks of learning there are 4 core courses that have to complete what are the 4 courses now these 2 core courses are available for enrollment at this point of time okay there are the 4 core courses are available for enrollment and there are 2 elective courses and many of the elective courses are currently being available for enrollment so if I am looking for say developing my expertise on the structural analysis being from civil engineering or any other discipline if this domain interest me I will take these courses and complete it within a period of 3 years the starting to ending is 3 years I have to get I have to get average score of 60 and individual score score should not fall below 55 okay this is the criteria there is no hard and fast tool that okay you have to first complete the core courses then you have to take the elective courses you can take the order in which these are appearing or available for enrollment so these are the domains as I was showing in the portal you can go to the portal and check yourself what are the domains available this is the sample domain certification where you will be having your name photograph it is similar to the say NPTEL certificate where you will be having the course related information what all courses you have done what is their performance, QR code of individual score then here which domain you have actually mastered that information is available here as I was saying earlier that it is not a one or two students who do become an NPTEL star learner you can see during January to April we had more than 2883 students who are actually categorized as NPTEL star learners and out of that one 30 students have actually or not students I would say learners have actually completed domain courses okay and as of now we have got 652 domain courses domain scholars and more than 13,000 NPTEL stars which are the courses which are very popular amongst the industry it is definitely you can see from the emerging area like data science electric vehicle cloud computing industrial safety quality related industry 4.0 blockchain Six Sigma and so on okay in a semester you can take one course or at a maximum of six courses in a semester how many people take multiple courses this data will give you some refraction on that what are these that okay there are about you can say 12 courses have been taken by 17 people during the January to December 2022 okay that means six in each semester there are 17 people who have taken similarly 21 students have taken 11 courses if you see more than five courses taken that is a good number few hundred people have taken that courses more than four courses or count of domain these data is also available so you can see it's not only one or two courses the learners are taking the many of the learners are taking many many courses and we find there are two learners who are completing the domain within a period of three or four years of the semester itself highest number of NPTEL course takers you can see a student from Goa University has actually completed 24 courses and it's a mix of student faculty and employee who are being more than 20 or such courses different initiative that NPTEL has started as we said that NPTEL is actually trying to engage with the colleges autonomous colleges and universities so that the credit transfer mechanism which has been approved by UGC and AICT can be implemented how do you actually do that UGC has approved that 40 percent of the semester load can be taken from the swam courses AICT has said 20 percent additionally they said that 20 extra points will earn the students will help the students to earn their B.T.A. honors degree how do the credit transfer takes place we are offering the course every semester we can I have shown you the NPTEL semester information where we will be publishing the semester on a particular semester what all courses will be offered beforehand the college can actually go to the details of that and take a decision the academic council of the university or an autonomous institution can go through the course syllabus and approve the courses for a credit transfer they have to mention how many credits they are actually identifying for that particular course NPTEL mentions that 10 hour course, 20 hour course and 30 hour courses are equivalent to 1, 2, 3 credits equivalent respectively however considering that other components are there like regular interaction it is not only lecture videos students interact with the faculty through forum through you can say live sessions whether it is the youtube live or PMRF scholars live sessions or read supplementary study materials and all they take substantial amount of time on that considering that the colleges can take a judicious decision to increase the credit limits appropriately and many of the universities that have adopted this 3 credit courses they have marked it as a 4 or 5 credits 2 credits have been upgraded to 3 credits and so on so the colleges can actually select a list of courses for a select group of learners who will be taking these courses and the credit limit is also limited decided by the academic council of the university what is our recommendation is that many of the universities have been telling that the students of final year has taken these courses for credits but in case they are unsuccessful in that particular course since NPTEL does not provide any supplementary exam that becomes a problem for the students to join for the internship or say placement related timelines so that is the reason we recommend that you do not try to avoid implementing the credit transfer for the final year students ideally you should it can start from the second semester because in the first semester the students are coming from the school to college they will be in a very new environment and the first semester can be given for them to set in adjust to the new environment and from second semester onwards they can be encouraged to enroll into the courses initially to start with you can just give them some language course or soft skills course which are easier to handle and the students will be at least familiar with the courses and how books actually for portal runs okay keep the courses that can be taken fixed and open do not tell that okay this is the course you have to take many of the times it has been seen by our team that okay the college has identified some courses without thinking the background possibly there was some gap in understanding that okay what is the background of the learners and since it was a heavily math based course the student did not do well in the examination maybe you have to take into account that the background of the students and appropriately recommend the courses for the faculties we are actually we have tied up with AICT and advanced level courses are recognized as FDP courses okay on completion of this FDP for getting the FDP certificate the faculty will be enrolling into the course identifying themselves as faculty write the certification exam once they get a certificate then they have to separately apply for FDP certificate how FDP points are calculated a four week course is equivalent to half FDP of one week eight weeks is considered as full FDP of one week 12 weeks course is equivalent to one and half weeks FDP and total FDP courses that we are offering in a semester you can see the split here okay January, April 2023 out of 665 courses we had 561 courses which was marked as FDP courses and in the Swam course page you will find this is an FDP AICT up to FDP course this tag will be there against each FDP courses faculty participation has been quite high it is between 17 to 20% almost in every semester except during the COVID period during the last semester also it was in that tune of that okay we are providing support to the SPOC as a new initiative that is if any of the SPOC is attending a conference in IITs or ISCs or few of the designated institutions we provide say fee you can say you can provide support of up to 25,000 who made their registration and other expenses okay every month for the first 10 days of the month we keep the portal open applications can be submitted for reimbursement of the expenditures so you can submit if your paper accepted for in any of the conferences you can ask for the support in case you are not utilizing the support here you can also encourage some of the faculty members from your institutions who are actively participating in the MPTR activities to take benefit of this initiative gate portal as we said that the courses which are many of the courses are aligned with the gate syllabus so what we have done in for gate portal we have mapped the syllabus that is if you are say looking for a computer science gate examination and you know what are the subjects there you click onto the subject and you click onto the topic it will lead you to a select set of video lectures links to the video lectures where you will get much deeper understanding of that particular course in addition to that we also provide online say you can say assessment mock test provision of mock test video solutions of previous gate examinations if you see the ok 21-22 whatever exams were conducted we try to provide you the video solution of that additionally you also provide live mentoring session where you can interact with the scholars here gate syllabus mapping has been done for the following 10 disciplines if you just go to the gate portal here just click onto this gate syllabus mapping say I am looking for mechanical engineering which are the courses say fluid mechanics I am looking for if I look for a fluid mechanics topic which are the lectures which deals with different aspects of fluid mechanics so I will be getting a links direct links to that syllabus mappings ok additionally I can also see here see video solutions I can select here say electronics which semester year wise if I select say 2020 verbal aptitude quantity of aptitude I can get the video solutions of problems ok this is how NPTEL is trying to provide support to the students who are aspiring to do well in the gate examinations since they either they doesn't have the resources to take coaching from some reputed institution how they can actually learn it directly from the NPTEL resources and prepare in an equivalent format NPTEL plus is a new platform where the learners can take the courses as per their own learn timelines that is I can do the certification anytime and from anywhere NPTEL courses which are offered in a semester basis that is we offer the courses in January April and July to say October but if I want to do a course anytime when I want maybe say in the month of May I want to enroll into the course NPTEL does not give that flexibility so for that what we have provided we have provided self-paced NPTEL courses many of the NPTEL courses and other courses which are maybe a short or long term training courses on you can say skill based courses which are which could be of 2 hours to few months duration are offered through these but definitely these courses the basic difference is that while NPTEL courses are curriculum based which are senate approved courses here these courses can be offered by the industry expert okay and these are not only curriculum based but other courses also workshop short term courses all these things are conducted here but since there is a flexibility of taking the course anytime it comes with a cost for accessing as well as for writing the certification examination okay these are primarily most sought after mode by the industry these are the basic difference between NPTEL and NPTEL class as we have mentioned self-paced courses you can explore the self-paced course portal more now for the internship for the topers we provide internship opportunities in IIT or IISC under the same faculty if the student has done well in a particular course suppose a course on python has been done and the student has actually a topper that particular course we try to engage that student with the faculty of that particular course so that they can get an opportunity to come to IIT and do an internship which is a period of 4 to 12 weeks or 4 to 8 weeks okay so the topers are approached by NPTEL once we get a consent from the faculty to whether they are willing for the internship opportunity or not if they say that okay we are willing we connect them with the faculty faculty selects the candidates and internship is provided in addition to the internship certificate on completion of the course we do provide a token say stipend like this for 4 weeks course we provide a financial assistance of 5000 for 8 weeks course at the rate of 10,000 rupees for 8 weeks courses 8 weeks internship TI internship is another opportunity where NPTEL has actually tied up with Texas Instruments if you complete a set of courses from electrical and electronics and communication engineering then the students are given an opportunity to work under TI internship program which are the courses are the basic electrical circuits and either analog circuits or analog IC design along with that are also expected to do some courses from circuit analysis for analog designer introduction to time-bearing electrical networks, PLL power management integrated circuits and so on so they have specified you can just visit nptl.ac.in slash TI and get further details on that we are providing the soft skill training for the learners for the holistic development of the students we know many of the students might be having a very good understanding of the subject but in the NPTEL but in the final interview they are not in a position to express themselves so just for the holistic development of the students we try to provide soft skill training for the learners what we do we actually provide a training for either 7 days or 15 days 1 week or 2 weeks duration during which we try to improve on their communication skill, writing skill the resume building interpersonal skill that is body language how to say face the interview board then how do they actually prepare the resume what are the things that they should keep in mind how to search the jobs in social media through that creating an account in the LinkedIn all these things are given detail exposure there are employability assessment, test, online interactive session one-to-one interviews are conducted okay so we periodically conduct the soft skill training primarily for the students who are coming from the TR2, TR3 cities these sessions are conducted by the experts if your college is in a say difficult region and your students need this type of training you can definitely approach us for necessary support the impact of soft skill training and see the feedbacks in our social media handles we are also in touch with our industry associate we are connected with different industry bodies be it from the government sector or private sector from diverse domains who are working in either consumer electronics domain oil, energy power transmission, IT sector all domains we are connected what all things we are expecting from them so these are the list of some of the NIA partners with whom we are working we primarily use them for multiple reasons either they are co-offering the course along with other IT faculty members so for co-offering the courses, giving the perspective of industry giving say interactive life session that is conducting a session or providing a lecture on what is going on in the industry, what is the train what do they expect from the new learners who are aspiring to join the industry all those things they give periodical lectures, we organize the lecture session we try to provide some sort of training through them we also try to provide some internship opportunity or placement support to our NPTEL top first through our NIA partners and you can see we have been successful in providing some sort of support to the learners one of the major contribution coming from the industry partner is in the form of a corporate social responsibility we try to take some funding from there because through their generous help we provide necessary support in the form of partial fee waiver to the needy students if your college has got say some students who are not in a position to pay even 1000 rupees and it feels it is a genuine you can definitely recommend his or her name for support on fee waiver for this the process is that within the timeline the college has to actually send the details of the students recommended by the college NPTEL is based on the fund availability will approve this the student will write the exam or register for the exam by paying the fee and if they are successfully competing the course the college or the student will be reimburse the partial fee waiver that is if they have got 500 rupees to be refunded that 500 rupees refund will take place after the declaration of the results you can see how many people Jan 2022 we have given a fee waiver of about 14,000 students these are the distribution of male female and state-wise distribution of fee waiver was given to 14,447 students were offered fee waiver and part of economic criteria and they are spread across 244 colleges and the footprint is available and you can see from the left it is written that okay there are some students who have said that they are so poor that they could not do this course without the support from the fee waiver so we really thank our industry partners for supporting the needy students to a fee waiver program as we have shown for the particular Iran course that the course videos are actually translated into English and other regional languages so these translation activities are done primarily through the local chapter colleges since we have got footprint across all over India and many of the faculty members in the local chapter colleges understanding of the subject as well as their local language so with the support of those faculty members we try to convert the say transcripts which are available in English into their regional languages so if you are interested to take up this job which is a paid service you can definitely approach us and help us in our endeavor as you know that we have created more than 3000 courses but we are struggling to develop these translation activities and definitely the SPOCs or the faculty members from the local college can pay a vital role in realization of this for the benefits of the local students translation has been done in different regional languages as we have said and these are the statistics some of the statistics NPTEL we are available in the social media in all whether it is say in Instagram, Facebook, Twitter everywhere we are available all the success stories what is shared by the students and all important information we pass it to the learners through the social media you can just check them these are our strong learners who are provided with the t-shirts and all so that they can proudly show that they are done extremely well in that particular NPTEL program we also conduct the laboratory workshops in different institutions which are typically of one-week duration where the students go to the institute stay there for say 6 days time first few days they will be doing the theory and practically mix up both and on the last day they will be undergoing a test on successful completion of the test they are given a certificate we charge a fee of this 200 for attending the lab workshops additionally the students are to take care of the accommodation and food expenses accommodation could be arranged in the hostels of the institution and the charge could be 300 to 400 rupees per day basis so based on that the students have to pay 200 rupees to NPTEL and other charges on actual to the institute where they are undergoing the laboratory workshops these workshops they can attend particularly for those courses what we can say some of the laboratory sessions can be attended by the students if these laboratory exposures cannot be given in the local colleges because of the transfer of resources these are our local chapters we have spread across all over India different states you can see number of active local chapters how do we define active local chapter that is if there are 25 students registering for the exam in a semester from that particular college and out of that if 50% or at least 13 students successfully complete the course then we rate that one as active local chapter additionally based on the performance of the students we calculate the score of a college and put them under top 100 we recognize the colleges under top 100 colleges first 10 are AAA next 40 are AA and remaining 50 are single A category these rated colleges are recognized to a plaque and all during the regional workshop that we have journal workshop that we have after declaration of the results we have got some local chapters outside India also primarily in the African continent we can see the list where we have the colleges there are about 50 colleges from outside who are partnering with this NPTEL local chapters contribute the maximum number of exam registration or enrollment you can see it's close to 90% learners come from the local chapters so definitely the credit goes to the local chapter SPOC and the administrators who value the you can say NPTEL courses and encourage their students either for learning purposes or for credit transfers local chapter participation as we said that's very high and it is not always that they are even spread across all local chapters you can find state wise it varies while it goes to 2% in Kerala where it is 21% in Tamil Nadu beyond that other local chapters which are spread across different other states the number is little lesser than that okay state wise enrollment and exam registration not all states participate in this program equally maybe we have to approach them or appraise them that what all initiative that we have taken so that they are encouraged to take more courses for local chapters our solution is that initially maybe you can ask the students to take some language course or soft skill course then they can be slowly taken to the programming course or skill based courses they can be encouraged to take use the get portal initially they can choose rerun courses so that the videos are available assignment set of assignment questions are available and ensure that no college activities are put clashing with the NPTEL exam dates because our exam dates are published at least one year in advance if the faculty members are associated with NPTEL as mentor supporting the local students based on the performance of the students thus faculty members are also given a recognition by NPTEL as we said it's not number of students that you are mentoring it is the number of you can say the performance of the students based on the performance certain points are given if the student is in the elite gold category 20 points is given for say if it is in the elite silver and so on so the faculty needs to get 10 points to get a mentor certificate top performing mentor is only considered if the mentor is either a top or a good medalist more than 50% of the mentees are in elite category provided there are a minimum of 10 mentees writing the exam so these are the some of the criteria that we follow for issuing the mentor certificate NPTEL is available on different we are providing the feedbacks of the students who are writing us the feedback these feedbacks are available across multiple you can say social media and our different channels additionally I'll just talk maybe two minutes time to tell that item address has started to unique programs in the form of BS degree program in data science and applications and electronic system although say engaging right now we are you are actually attending a course from say IIT this is a course level certification you are getting but if you are planning to get a full-fledged degree or diploma certificate IIT Madras has now opened the opportunity for you we can actually take any of these programs data science and applications these are actually four years degree program but it has got a multiple exit points that is you can actually live at the diploma level or BS level or degree level and there is a flexible time structure you can take it within a period of four years specified or you can actually take it up to within a period of eight years so the flexibility is there there is no age limit contents are available online the regular interaction takes place to different virtual you can say with jimmy june and such platforms regular interaction is there for doubt clearing session however there is an in-person exam and for the electronic system there is an in-person labs or labs which are conducted in IIT Madras that is after every semester the students will be coming to IIT Madras for electronic system degree program and for their level utilization okay how do the entry takes place you enroll into the course go through the qualifier process a four weeks content is given go through the contents submit the assignments write the final examination if you qualify in the final examination get a minimum x score cutoff score then you are enrolled into the final program and depending on your capability if you are doing this course as part of a second degree along with your regular degree that you are pursuing in your institute you can actually listen number of course and spread it across multiple you can say instead of four years you can complete it over five six seven or up to eight years standard okay this is what you can say study for qualifier content pass the in-person qualifier exam and join the foundation level first year is foundation second year is diploma third year is BSC for data science program and fourth year is BS for the BS in electronic system you do not have a BSC program it is foundation diploma and BS degree program with this I will just stop at this the periodically the students also come to IIT Madras for interacting with the faculties and joining in other different activities that are available for in-temp us student so many of the students and the faculty members are currently pursuing and the student or learners who are attending this program may also consider joining this initiative with this I stop at this point and hand over it to the SPOC Thank you so much sir for the awareness program about NPTEL well and gate mapping courses are very useful information for our student because number of students are opted for gate and we do not have enough exposure of gate mapping so from now onwards what we do we will start the gate exposure awareness among the students so that they will qualify the gate and now I just want to show my slide about how many students are enrolled from our college from last three years Thank you so much Yes ma'am I am unable to show my screen actually I am unable to show my screen share my screen Student please give the access to the channel Student One minute ma'am No, host disabled participant We will inform student No No One second I will inform Actually we are trying to we can say provide internship opportunities for the more and more learners Yes sir If there are top parts we usually connect with them but many of the times we find that students although we have offered the internship they are tweeting this saying that it is in say Guwahati say the course was from Guwahati so we can't go there Yeah I understand This is an internship opportunity under the faculty is a very good initiative Yes sir They should actually make use of that but unfortunately just because it is free many of the times they accept it initially then later they say no we can't do that actually that denies the opportunity for other students Yeah I agree Yeah but this internship program is very nice sir because now we will focus on that and especially I found very important that gate mapping courses because the main aim of NPTEL when we are doing assignment then our foundation will going to be strong and it will help for the gate examination also and if you want to pursue others Can you able to share the screen One minute Yes ma'am share one minute Madam it's my screen visible Yes ma'am Yeah good morning Good afternoon all this is a NPTEL awareness workshop on June 30, 2023 We are our college in Gitanjali College of Engineering and Technology Hyderabad I'll see ID is 2155 This I want to focus on the enrollment of from the our colleges in for the years 2022, 21, 21, 22, 22 and 23 in the year 2021 in the July December we have total enrollment of 685 candidates in the January, April it will be 850 and it's a during Covid time in July December 675 out of 685 50% around 40% of them have registered for the examination and out of them two candidates got a light plus gold and number of have successfully successfully completed the course with a light silver in 2021 and 22 we have June in June to December we have total enrollment of 535 and January and April 1189 during this semester also these are the enrollment 40 to 45% have registered for the exam and out of them 20 to 25% got successfully qualified with the certificate as well as a light plus silver in 2022 to 2023 in the June December semester 675 candidates have enrolled for the examination out of them 30% of them have registered for the examination and around 12 to 13% got successfully qualified with a light silver and a light gold in 2023 and 24 as the enrollment is going on till now we have total 250 enrollment from our colleges the enrollment number is very high and students are always taking interest in doing the enrollment as well as for the for giving examination for the registration also from 2019 we got a NPTEL believers as well as NPTEL discipline starts this semester we also got one NPTEL believers and one NPTEL discipline starts for the last January to July to January to April 2023 sessions these are the certificates for the NPTEL believers and NPTEL deliver discipline starts thank you thank you so much sir yeah any query from the participants please carry on or please write in the chat box if you have any query please write in chat box yeah jessery madam yes ma'am can I continue with photo thanks no pain is there yes ma'am first I would like to thanks our colleague our chairman sir ready guru sir principal sir to provide me the opportunity to become a spoke for our college to become the spoke of our college I would also like to thanks IIT Madras Sivsankar Das sir NPTEL coordinator Priyadasini madam jessery madam and the NPTEL team for accepting our proposal to conduct one NPTEL awareness program for the for our college I would also like to thanks our HOD madam Dr. A. Sri Lakshmi ma'am students, staff and IIT team of Gitanjali College of Engineering and Technology who has participated in this NPTEL awareness program and who help directly or indirectly for conducting this NPTEL awareness program thank you ma'am yeah ma'am thank you thank you so much ma'am yes ma'am yes sir thank you Pooja ma'am thank you so much ma'am yes sir yes sir student you can stop stream student