 Thank you, ma'am. So, respected resource person of this workshop, Professor Shubh Shankar Das, respected NPTEL local team member, Ms. Jay Sriman, respected ICIC coordinator of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswajeshwama Abhidyalaya, Dr. Janelma, fellow faculty colleagues, and my dear students, good morning to one and all. So, I'm happy to invite you all today to the NPTEL awareness e-workshop. It's my duty to thank the NPTEL local chapter team, IIT Madras for giving such a wonderful opportunity in association with the local chapter team to organize this workshop. On behalf of Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswajeshwama Abhidyalaya, it's my pride and privilege to welcome the resource person, Dr. Shubh Shankar Das, NPTEL local chapter team, IIT Madras. Hi, welcome you, sir. So, it's a great pleasure to welcome Ms. Jay Sriman, NPTEL local chapter team, I welcome you, ma'am. I take this opportunity to welcome Dr. Janeni, ICIC coordinator on this occasion. I welcome you, ma'am. It gives me a great pleasure to welcome the faculty members and students for this workshop. And I request everyone to actively participate in this workshop. So this workshop aims to make over maximum cognizance and attract more students and teaching community to enroll the NPTEL online courses in the forthcoming semesters to gain knowledge with respect to the various domains. Also, the collaboration with the NPTEL for online courses highlights the importance of continuous learning and enhancing the quality of students and faculty community. This workshop covers various topics including abstract of domain certification, faculty development program, job-oriented courses, soft skill workshops and NPTEL stars. So there will be a question and answer session. I request the participants to kindly utilize this opportunity. So once again, I welcome you all for this great occasion. So, thank you, ma'am. So, shall I give my thank you speaker to Dr. Sriman? Jay Sriman? Yes. So I'd like to invite Dr. Janani to speak about three words about this workshop and our university. Welcome. Good morning. Can you hear me? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. I am Dr. Janani Rajaramu, coordinator IQSE, SESVMV. On behalf of SESVMV, I welcome all the participants for this NPTEL awareness workshop. Our university, Samprashekaran Saraswati Vishomaha Geyalya was established in the year 1993 at Enadu, Kanchipuram. The main mission of our institute is to provide quality higher education coupled with Indian value system. So the mantra is an educational delight of the students that engaged in study and the faculty engaged in teaching and research in journey towards excellence with creativity. Each program and its course will carry definite defined objectives and student learning outcomes. So the main functions of this IQSE is development and application of quality parameters for academic activities, facilitating and creating the learning-centering environment and faculty maturation to adopt and require knowledge and technology for participatory teaching and learning process. The SICSE in SESVMV is formed with the head of the institution as the chairman and other faculty members from various departments as the members, as well as the members are present from industry, alumni. NPTEL courses are designed to enhance the learning experience of the students, teachers and professionals by offering high quality educational content. This NPTEL offers courses in various English range of subjects including engineering, science, management, humanities and many more. NPTEL courses are known for their quality and academic rigor. The courses are designed and delivered by experienced faculty members from various institutions with high standard of education. So with this brief introduction about our university, IQSE and NPTEL courses, I declared this section through the NPTEL of the resource person, Shubh Shankar Das, to give a wide idea about this workshop as well as the various courses which makes the participant to be very effective. I request the participants to utilize this workshop effectively. Best wishes, thank you one and all. Thank you, man. Thank you. A respected IQSE coordinator, SPOC of the University, SCSBAB University, Kanchipuram, very warm welcome and good morning to one and all who are connected to this program. First of all, let me just seek your apology for the technical breach that delayed the whole session by about half an hour and thanks all the participants who are connected to the YouTube to be available here as of now. Okay, so during the, even my actually camera has got certain bleaches, so I'm not in a position to show myself, but I will be covering the topics that we are ready to do during this session. Okay, let me just first share my screen, then we'll go ahead. This is the workshop we are conducting in association with SCSBAB University, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. I was very surprised to see the association of this university with NPTEL activities. I think this is in the early phase of 2014, the university joined in this particular program. From 2014, I find there are two students who have taken the courses. That is from the beginning of the online certification program, this university is connected with NPTEL. Although the numbers have not grown beyond I think 43, 45, but there's a different story, but at least they are of this program and some or other students are taking benefit of this. For the benefit of others, we'll be having this workshop today, where we'll be discussing on the introduction, just give an introduction to NPTEL and SWIME, then NPTEL online certification, tele-transplant mechanism, then your domain certificate, internship, soft-skill training, get portal-related issues, then these are related to the students. Then we'll also be talking about, for the faculty perspective, the faculty development program and different other initiatives that are actually started by NPTEL. Additionally, we'll also be talking since we understand that there could be some faculty members or learners from other colleges who are joining this part. So for the completeness of the whole session, we'll also be talking the benefits associated with the different NPTEL local chapters, then NPTEL plus or the self-classed courses that are offered by that are, you can say extended part of NPTEL activities and the new initiative initiative, right? IIT Madras in the form of four years BS degree program, which any student who are currently pursuing a degree in a regular program will be able to pursue in parallel. We'll be taking the question answer as we progress through the session. So all the questions that are appearing on the YouTube chat box will be taking as and when they appear and we'll be going forward. So there will not be separate question answer session as you move along. We'll be taking the questions directly from the chat box. So NPTEL is a national program on technology and running. It was a project of seven older IITs and ISC Bangalore, which started its journey 20 years back in 2003. The initial concept was that recording the contents in the classrooms of the IITs and making it available for the learner communities. So that if anyone is interested, they should be able to gain access to the lectures and update their knowledge. From 2014 to 2023, we have started course level certifications. Okay. So during this 20 years journey, we have created 3000 plus unique courses. These contents, whatever contents we have created, these contents are delivered through either nptl.ac.in or they are linked to the YouTube channel. We have got NPTEL HRD YouTube channel where you have got a subscription of 4.5 million plus. Although it's not an entertainment channel, but the huge number of subscription to these purely academic channel of higher education learning materials, clearly speaks the popularity of NPTEL courses and the value added to it. The number of viewers, if you see, it's crossed 1.6 billion. We have got more than 60,000 hours of videos with many of the videos having English subtitles. So although we started our journey with an aim to provide high quality affordable education at a large scale, but later on we developed the online certification mechanism and actually engaging with the stakeholders like the autonomous universities, autonomous colleges and the universities for adoption of these courses in the credit transfer framework or encouraging their students to take it for various other reasons. Now, once we say that these contents are created by NPTEL and we are offering these contents for certification purpose, we definitely need a platform. Currently, the contents are delivered through a platform called SOYON. It is a Ministry of Education funded platform. It's a common umbrella for anyone who is offering online certification courses in India. That is, since we have got right from school children to the high end researchers, so just to cater to the needs of different segment of the people, we are offering actually a number of coordinators have been created. Each targeting is select group of learners. Now, NPTEL, which is one of the national coordinator is primarily recognized or given the responsibility to offer undergraduate and post-graduate level engineering education in India, in online. However, since NPTEL, which is coming from the IITs, each of these IITs have got other disciplines like basic sciences, humanities social sciences and management. We do offer a quite a good number of courses from these disciplines too. So whatever courses we offer through SOYON, they are actually called SOYON courses. So the new mode, that is course level certification started in 2014. We follow the MOOCs format, that is massive open online courses, which means the number of students or the learners who can actually join into a program is unlimited, that is, it's not restricted by the big and motor classroom structure. Okay, how many people can sit in the classroom? Only thing, if a candidate or the learner has an interest to learn and has got internet, then they should be able to access these open online contents directly. The courses are structured, that means they are exactly similar to the courses that are offered in a regular university system, that is it has a fixed syllabus, a start date, end date. Every week there are certain activities, say in the form of lecture, question answer sessions, then you have got periodic supplementary study materials, periodic assessment, end semester examination, all these features which are available in a regular university structure, that is also available here. And these courses can be taken by anyone from anywhere, and they can do it from the comfort of their own whenever they feel time, have time to undergo these courses. So we follow a four quadrant approach that we'll talk little more detail in the next slide. These courses what we offer through NPTEL for online certification are offered during January and July, aligning with the semester system of the universities. So the January courses, it will start sometime around third week of January and after the session also, will start from somewhere third or fourth week of July. So the semester, July semester courses which are starting within this month will start from 24th of July. We'll see the timelines little later. So all the NPTEL courses as we have said since they are offered through the SWAM platform, they are separately not called anything, they are called SWAM courses only or sometimes you call it SWAM NPTEL courses. We can see the tentative course list and the timelines ahead of time through this portal which will go later and show you where this is. Okay, this is NPTEL semester information. Now for the January and July run, once you offer the courses from third week, we release or open these courses for enrollment at least two months ahead of time. That is either in May, we open the enrollment for July courses or by November middle, we open the enrollment for January run courses. These courses are offered during January to April or July to October precisely and although the semester is June, by say within a month's time, we release the score also. So January session, we completed by say May and July session by November. Okay, so enrollment there as we are saying that we are starting two months ahead of time. Anyone can enroll into any number of courses irrespective of what he or she is currently doing. Irrespective of the academic background, age, nothing is decided. If someone is having the interest, they are able to join to the course and the number of courses to which they can join is not restricted. The courses are free for joining and say for the learning purpose, you join into the course and complete the learning process without paying any fee because the whole program is supported by the Ministry of Education. However, after learning, if you feel that you want a tangible output in the form of a certificate, definitely you have to register for the certification program, the certification examination by paying a token fee. Okay, we'll see how much fee is there in the coming slide. The course features, if you see the courses, naturally we say it is structured in a very similar way as that of a regular university course. That means it will have a fixed timeline. So in terms of timeline, it can be said that, okay, we'll be having four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks equivalent to 10 hours, 20 hours or 30 hours courses. That means every week we are considering about 2.5 hours of lecture. Okay, now these individual lectures are not of one hour duration. They are actually granular sizes so that the students can actually or the learners can download this lecture in one go by using the available bandwidth, internet bandwidth. So these contents are usually of a size of, say 30 minutes duration individual lectures. There could be five or six lectures every week. Now, if you just say that, okay, these contents are available in a four quadrant approach, what are these quadrants? One is the teacher is delivering the talk, if we record that lecture, that becomes a recorded lecture becomes my first quadrant. Now in a classroom, the teacher will be interacting with the students or the student will be interacting with the teacher. That flavor is taken just because it's an online course, you cannot have, say, face-to-face interaction. This takes place through a web-based interactive forum. Additionally, the faculty interacts with the students or the learners through YouTube once in a month. So every, say, after three weeks, the teacher will be available online and interacting with the students. So this is how the interaction takes place. Additionally, we are also engaging the Prime Minister's Research Fellow Scholars for taking, say, problem solving session for many of the courses, where we understand the teacher will be primarily focusing on concepts or theory-based things that will be discussed in the lecture. However, there will be a lot of problems asked in the, as part of the assignment. So if you really want to understand how the problems are to be solved, definitely the students should be encouraged to the, for attending the problem solving sessions that we actually take the help of PMRF scholars on a regular basis. Every week, there will be PMRF scholars session on problem solving. There is a question in the forum that this pre-recorded lecture to old, does we can't get new lectures? So there are certain courses like, say, say strength of material, or certain courses that you teach as part of the first semester courses. Okay, these courses, there is not too much of changes in the concept. Even the books, if you see, we have been following the certain books for over, say, 10, 20 years, because those concepts, the basic concepts has not changed. And if these contents have been recorded by a good faculty, there is no reason why you should change it until the analyst, there is certain changes in the, or there is an optimization in the knowledge. So for the technology-based courses, say it like blockchain. I think we created the blockchain course after, I think one or two runs, we had to change the content because by the time second run was over, the whole concept of blockchain that new technologies have come in, and we had to discard the old contents and create the new content. So this is a regular process. We try to actually change the content where there is only emerging, the courses are from the emerging areas. Okay, but other contents, which are, you can say, on the very basic concept, they remain as it is until and unless the faculty who is available, who has created the content is not available to run in the course, then we engage some other faculty for creating the contents. Then additionally, the faculty will also give supplementary study materials in the form of text transcript. That is whatever the faculty has said in the classroom, a text version of that. This may be English, or maybe additional supplementary, additional materials in the form of the text in regional language space will also be available. The faculty will also be providing the slides, the PPT slide that they have used in the lecture materials as supplementary study materials for rapid revision. Okay, then at the end, there is a weekly assignment. Every week, during the runtime of the course, we'll be providing one assignment that may contain 10 to 20 questions and each question will be mostly computer graded, that is multiple choice type, or maybe numerical problem, you have to solve the problem and put the numerical value. Okay, and each assignment, whether it's a 10 questions or 20 questions, each will be graded out of 20 marks, 100 marks. Okay, these are the four quadrants we'll be following. You're saying sir that not concept, but video qualities are so pure, the course on statistical mechanics and other studies. Sir, I would encourage rather request you, if you can write back to us on support at the NPTL or local chapter at the NPTL, definitely we'll look into the particular course where you feel that okay, because of the quality of the video, it needs to be updated, we'll definitely look into that. Thank you for pointing out. So then after going through the weekly contents and all, if you now feel that okay, you are interested to write the examination, this examination is a proctodil person. That is, although I can study the course from the comfort of my home, but for writing the examination, I have to actually go to a exam center and write the exam. The exam centers are spread across the country, that is in more than 200 places we conduct the examination, the exams are either online or offline. In all the cases, the question papers come on the screen only, whereas in an online exam, the answers are also to be responded in the computer. Whereas in case of offline, the questions only appear in the screen, whereas the answers are to be written in a given answer script, the conventional answer script. There will be three exam days on which the exam, every semester there will be three days on which exams will be conducted. We'll see which are the dates for the July semester and on each day you'll be having two sessions. That means if I take two courses whose exams are flashing on the same date, there is nothing to worry. You'll be able to write two exams on two sessions. So if you're planning to write maximum courses, then you can absolutely take on three days six exams. Exam fee is fixed at 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the course duration. That is whether it's a four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, the fee remains same. However, a partial fee waiver to the extent of 50% is available for the SCST candidates and persons with disability. With disability percentage more than 40%. For this definitely the candidates, if they want to avail the benefits, they have to produce the certificate or the medical certificates as applicable for getting the waivers. Exam results are published within 30 days from the date of examination. The certificates are actually soft copy of the certificates are issued and each certificate will be issued by the institute that is offering the course. If the course is offered by say IIT Bombay, the certificate will be signed by the officials from IIT Bombay. And it will be a QR code that through which I'll be able to verify the authenticity of the certificate from the NPTEL main portal. Now, once I write the examination, what is the certification criteria? Which criteria I should fulfill to get the certificate? As we said that every week we'll be having weekly assignment and each assignment will carry 100 marks. So this is a comprehensive, you can say assessment continuous assessment. So what is your performance in the assignment? Also is taken into account the final certification. 25% weightage comes from assignment for all type of courses. This 25% weightage how it is calculated that is if it is a 12 week course there are 12 assignments and for a 12 week course we only consider the best eight assignments course. Considering that the students might be missing one or two assignments because that will be clashing with their regular semester exams or other activities of the institution. So for a four week course we only consider the best three, four eight weeks course we only consider the best six assignments course. Take an average of that and calculate 25% of that directly put it into the certificate. For other courses, if we consider that there are certain courses like C, C++, Java, Python, Verilog for these courses there is a separate programming examination. And in for programming courses in addition to the regular programming test they will be having a additional non-proper programming test before the final exam. That is on a particular day before the final exam there will be given two slots. One during the day, one during the night and the students can take either exam in any of these slots. They can also take examine both the slots and whichever score is better that is only taken and 25% from there directly goes into the certificate. These are for programming courses and the remaining 50% comes from final exam. For the non-programming courses the 25% is allocated for the assignment and the final exam which is over say 50 or 100 depending on the course duration 75% marks will come from the final certification exam. Someone is asking that are the working professionals allowed to take these courses? As we said that we say these courses are offered in a triple A model that is anyone irrespective of their present background, their age, whatever they are doing whether that is their student, faculty member, employee professional, filmmaker or retired professional anyone can join into the course and the number of courses that they can join fee of course is unlimited. Depending on their choice they can join in any number of courses. Then comes here we are saying that 75%, 25% or 50, 25, 25% is just split for non-programming and programming courses. Now one should actually get at least 40% score in individually in each of these components to be able to get a certificate. That means out of 25 at least I should be getting in assignment, out of 75 for non-programming courses I should get at least 30 in the final examination. That is 75% of that should be at least 30 or 100 I should get 40. The cumulative total of these two fixes my grade. We go for a five point rating that is if the total is less than 40 we consider the candidate is unsuccessful. 40 to 59 we say that the candidate has successfully completed the course and eligible to get the certificate. Scores between 60 to 100 will be our aid say elite word, elite word will be marked onto the certificate. Whereas for 60 to 74 only the elite word will be there for 75 to 89 range. In addition to the elite word there will be silver medal symbol into the printed onto the certificate. Similarly for the scores between 90 to 100 there will be gold symbol along with the elite word in the certificate. Additionally if the students are meeting the top 1%, 5% the top part seal will also be put into the certificate. This is how a sample certificate will look like. The certificates will carry the logo of NPTEL and Swayam. It will carry the photograph of the student. Students name course they have done. The individual score in assignment, proctod exam or programming exam and the consolidated score when the course was taken. What is the number of students? How many people they qualified into the course when it was offered? Roll number and the keyword. All these data are available. And only just below the NPTEL certificate if the student is within the top part there will be top part seal at this point also. Just below the NPTEL logo. Okay, at this point someone is asking that when do you provide online certificate? As we said once the exam results are, exam is conducted within 30 days timeline we release the score. And as soon as we release the score the certificate is made available to the student. Either to their account that is they go to the portal and they can see the certificate is also made available to the college in bulk if the students have taken these courses by identifying that they are part of the local chapter college. So as soon as the results are declared the certificates, e-copy certificates are made available immediately. Important points to remember is that as long as you are studying in NPTEL we identify each of the learners not by anything else but by their unique email ID. So if you actually say you have done some courses in semester one and in says fifth or sixth semester you have continuously carried out with some or other courses in every semester and in some point during the eighth semester you change your email ID. If you change your email ID you will not be able to trace the contents or the courses that you have undergone and the records. You will not be able to track that one. So as long as you are continuing in the NPTEL always try to use the same email ID for the assignment submission as well as the final course, final exam registration. Check your exam dates before enrollment because what do you say? Because if you say that, okay we are interested for writing the examination you should not choose say two, three courses which has got same exam date. Maximum two courses you can write in examination on a particular date. One in four noon and another in the afternoon. But if you select three courses which has got same exam date you will not be able to write the exam for the third course. Upload a formal passport photograph during the exam registration because the certificate will be your photograph which you may put it to the institute or the university for credit transfer or you may give it to the prospective employer for internship or job opportunities. The important part is that during the examination if the courses require that uses of calculators you will not be allowed to use physical calculators in the TCS approved exam centers. Then what do you do? It will be provided online on screen. That means you really need to understand that without enough practice on on-screen calculated in this it will be difficult for you to make up the or make up on the difficulties that you may face with the new portal in TCS exam center. For the colleges where you are expecting more number of students to be writing the exam for our logistic arrangement it is always advisable that if you feel that more candidates are writing the exam allow the NPTEL beforehand so that NPTEL can take care of the logistic requirement. Now if you just see the timelines for the July 2023 semester we have actually segregated the courses into three groups, two groups basically. One group consists of say four weeks and eight week courses are split into two sets. The first set of four weeks, first set of eight weeks and all 12 week courses are starting from 24th of July. And the second set of four weeks and second set of eight weeks will start exactly one month later that is from 21st of August. So the first set of four weeks, eight weeks and 12 weeks which is starting from 24th of July that enrollment is due to close on 31st of July. And if you have decided that, okay you will actually, you want to enroll into any of these courses do not delay further come and join into the course. Okay, the exam registration closes the dates are provided before you that is the first set of four weeks, eight weeks and all 12 weeks courses exam registration form will close on 14th of August. And for the second set of courses of four weeks and eight weeks the exam registration will close on 11th of September that is without any late fee. But without with late fee you'll be able to complete it by 18th of August or 15th September respectively for different set of courses. Someone is asking how to enroll these workshops? Sir, I really could not understand what you wanted to say how to enroll into this workshop if you can just elaborate that would be easy for me to answer to that. Now, okay, we have decided that we want to take the course what are the steps you should follow? First, we should check the timelines and what are the courses that are forthcoming from July, 2023. Where you want to go? You should go to nptl.sc.it. If we just click on to this it will take me to this page, epito.sc.it. Just scroll down. You will find the list of courses is given here. What all things are available here? See here you'll be having you'll be having discipline, course name, faculty which institute is offering the course. What is the duration of the course? Whether the course is new that is being offered for the first time or it is a read and close that is which was created earlier but is being offered either for say second time, third time, fourth time or a number of times it was offered earlier. So that is read and close. Start date, end date, examination date, examination date say enrollment closer date, examination registration date whether level of the course whether it is a core course, elective course, undergraduate level course or course graduate level course all data are provided in a single excursion. Then whether this course is marked for the faculty development program and we'll be talking about the you can say the domain certification whether this course fits into any of the domains. That is also provided along with that you will be having the link to join to the course. So a consolidated view of all the courses that are forthcoming from July, 2023 are available here. Now, once you have gone through this you can also check say you are planning the university is planning to say take the courses from January, 2024. So they really need to know when is the course started and what are the courses that are forthcoming? For this, you can click onto the NPTEL semester information page, which will take you to this page information on NPTEL semester. If you want to see here see in July, 2023 you'll be able to see the same course list and the timelines that I have shown. If you want to see what are the forthcoming courses in January, 2024 and the timelines you'll be able to see the timelines here. Okay, the timelines is that the first set of courses are starting from 22nd of January. Exam date is also given. Exam registration form closer date is also given. Then what else you want? What are the forthcoming courses? We have also put a tentative list of courses and new and re-run courses which are forthcoming. But this course is not a final one. With every passing day, new or more and more newer courses will be added in this particular group. So you can always check this one before the next semester comes to understand okay, which all courses are available and which course you want to take it for that. Tell it transfer or for encouraging your students for taking the courses either for say, to get deeper understanding of the course or maybe for preparation of the gate exam or for better job opportunities, whatever it is. So once you have selected the course if it is a re-run course, we encourage you to visit this page. Say nptl.sc.in portal. Say you are looking for a course which is on a re-run. Say let me just select a course, say cloud computing. So I am looking for cloud computing course. I want to enroll into this course. This course is coming from July. And if I go to since it is a re-run course, what all say things are available in the portal? I can see under the download section, not only the videos, the weekly structured videos are available here, but also I'll be able to see under the download section, one set of assignment that whenever the course was offered earlier, one set of assignment questions have been connected here. So I will have some idea on the type of questions that are asked in a weekly assignment. But please note that these assignment questions will be different from the new assignments that are forthcoming. Okay, the new assignment sets will be very different from this, but it will give you some idea on the level. Then you can also see the lecture notes and all things are available here. Additionally, what you have? Transcript. The English text version of the video lectures are made available here as transcript. Not only that, in addition to the English verified text, you'll also be having, say, transcripts for many of the re-run courses in different other regional languages, like, say, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, all these languages. So if your students are finding it difficult to follow the course sometime, you can always encourage the students to download these regional languages transcripts for better following the course. What else is available? You can also download the whole transcripts of the whole course in a booklet format. These are also available in different other languages. Additionally, if you just look at the statistics page that will give you some idea, like, okay, what type, what is the level of this course? Say, how many people are re-enrolling and how many people are writing the exam? How many of them are passing the grade? So that will possibly give some indication on the toughness of the course. Depending on that, we'll be able to suggest, okay, whether this course is suitable for a particular group of learners or not. I'll take another question, sir. Our policy is included in the local chapter. Our faculties are interested in contacting a new course on management, conducting a new course on management and finance. Please explain the procedure. I really could not understand whether you want to offer a course on, say, management and finance by, created by any of your faculty, or you want to take the course from NPTEL. Please clarify it. That is, Satapya T. If you can clarify on this, whether you want to develop with yourself or you want to take the course from Swayam Plattson. Okay, so from this, coming back to the presentation part, so the statistics page will definitely give you some idea whether the, what is the level of the course? Whether the students will be able to complete the course or not. You can also see the course syllabus here. Okay, then after going through all these, you come to the portal for enrollment. For enrollment, the portal is swayam.gov.t. Now I'll show you how to enroll into the course. Here you can, if you know the course name, you can directly type the course name here and enroll into the course. If you do not know the course name, in that case, you can select onto the all courses, then click onto the national coordinator, put a filter. As I said, there are a number of national coordinators targeting each group, targeting different groups of learners. So if you are looking for NPTEL courses, just click on NPTEL. So after putting this filter, you'll only find the NPTEL courses displayed here. These are the course cards. Now, if you know that, okay, I am looking for taking a course from say particular branch. Say someone told the management, if I am looking for taking a course from the management, then I can also decide on whether I want to take a course of 30 hours, 20 hours, 10 hours or four, eight or 12 weeks duration. So I can put a filter here also, that is course duration. Say I am looking for a QLB course from the management discipline. Management discipline, you have put subcategories like accountancy and all, otherwise I'll be seeing all the courses that are coming from the management discipline. Say I am interested in a course called entrepreneurship. Okay, this is offered by a faculty from MIT Madras, which is NPTEL, the start date, end date, exam date, duration, all things are in brief written here. If I am interested to join into the course, I am just clicking onto this. This takes me to the next page. Here I find that 8,000 people have already joined to the course. There is a small video clip up to five minutes where the faculty has explained what he or she is going to teach as part of the course. About the course, there's things written into the audience, that is, who are the people who should take these courses? And if there is any prerequisite knowledge, the learner should have to understand the concept, not for joining the course, for understanding the concept. If you know, if you feel that, okay, you really have that knowledge, you can definitely go and join it to the course. And industry support means which are the organizations that will appreciate this particular course knowledge. Then you have got the course syllabus, instructor biography, and then you can see, here it is, it is written that is a 12-way course, it's a faculty, it's a ICT approved FTP course. Okay. Now, if I want to enroll into the course, I go to join, I click onto the join button. Since I have my personal email ID in the format Gmail, I'll use my Gmail account, which I can carry forward as long as I am interested to actually learn in the NPTEL course. So I'll click onto my personal email ID. I'll talk about that, sir. No, sir, our faculty wants to develop 10 inputs. I'll talk about this later. Okay. This is the profile page. It will take certain data from the Gmail account. Age group you can select, it has got 13 to 100 age group, male, female, transgender, whatever it is, you can select from their country, you can select pin code input, then automatically it takes the city and the state, then you have to select your profession. There are four professions it's given, that is student, faculty, employed, and other. If you're from student and faculty category, then you are definitely associated with an academic institution. So the next question will be, are you from a NPTEL local chapter? That is, are you part of a SWAM local chapter? If it is a local chapter, please say yes. Okay. So that your data is available to the SPOC. Then comes, what is your highest qualification? It could be senior secondary level to the masters or doctoral, whatever it is. Used from the drop down, you select the appropriate qualification, that is currently you are having, whether it's high school, pre-university and all. Then year of graduation, you might have already graduated, you may be graduating three or four years down the line. So depending on where you are, you can see even if you are graduating in 2030, you can select appropriate. Then academic bank of credits, if you are taking the courses from other coordinators also, then only ABC comes into picture, as far as the NPTEL is concerned, we will be recognizing your efforts through your NPTEL email ID only. Okay. Then local chapter, you have to select from the state, under the state, you have to select your local chapter. So if I just say, say this program is from SEM University, I can select the local chapter here, then I have to give my roll number, the degree personally from the drop down, whatever is available, I can select from there. Department, we have given few departments, then if your department name is not there, in that case, select that department that closely resembles to your department, is close to that, put that selection, which either of study, you are currently in, select that from drop down, select that you will be following the NPTEL, Swayam terms of service, and you will be following the honor group. That means I will be sincere in my studies and all these things, okay? Then click onto the join post. It will immediately reflect that I have successfully completed enrollment into this course. Yes, thank you for registering for the course. Click the announcement tab for important information. Now the course is starting from 24th of July, but we ensure that since many of the learners might be joining this program for the first time. So this is a new line platform. So for them, what we do, we provide the first week contents much ahead of time, at least 10 to 15 days ahead of time, we release the first week content, so that they can at least have a look at that, what type of assignments are there, all this thing can, they can explore. So you can see on the left hand side, you have got the course update, different activities. If you do not know how to submit the assignment, how to do different activities, that is four important activities. There are some sample videos here. You can refer to that. Otherwise, you can week zero means a practice question given just to test whether you have the prerequisite knowledge or not. This is not counted for certification. It's not graded. Then we have already released the week one lecture. So here week one lectures, if you just click onto the lecture, the video will open here. Okay, you can see the contents here. Now comes after going through the contents, if you have got supplementary study material, that is also is text transcript is available here. English transcripts, you can see from here. And download from here. Then comes your weekly assignment. Under the week zero, you find there is a week one quiz. As we said, there could be 10 to 15, 20 questions. There are 10 questions which are all multiple choice type. You have to select whichever is the appropriate answer and submit it. We usually give a 10 day start line. Now here against each assignment you have seen, see here it is written that up to which date you can submit, that is every Monday onwards till next week's Wednesday, 11.59. Is it, is the timeline when you can submit the assignment? 10 days time, okay. In that case, that is as many times as you want, you can actually go to the portal within that timeline and submit the assignments. Now here we said that each assignment is considered out of 100. But here it is 10, one point. That means if all are of one point each, that means 10 point is equivalent to 100 marks. Okay, that means each question carries 10 marks. If it is a multiple choice, then it is either you get full marks or you get zero, depending on whether you've selected correct or incorrect option. Whereas in case of multiple select, if you feel there are more number of correct options in addition to one, that is more than say two or more correct options are there in that case, as long as you select correct options, you get proportionate marks. But if you select any incorrect option, along with one or more correct options, the score reduces to zero. Okay. What else is here? You can click here and see. If you want to ask a question, the students will be posting their queries here and this forum will be responded by the faculty and the teaching assistants. This can also be answered by your PR learners, that is other students or learners who are addicted. They may also answer to that. So if you feel that, okay, you know the answer, you can also practically come and answer to that. If your answer is wrong, it will be moderated by the faculty. Okay. So it's a very good platform. Since it's anonymous, you can always actively participate in this activity. Then comes the answer, submit the assignment. After the submission deadline closes, you'll be able to see the score out of 100 here. Here it will be written assignment one. If I submit it, after the timeline expires, I'll be able to see out of 100 what is my score. If the college has actually selected a faculty who is acting as a mentor, then the mentor faculty name will be displayed here and I'll be able to select that mentor faculty from here. This is all what is how to enroll into the course. So, so far on hands-on part, we have seen where to go to see what all courses are forthcoming from July. That is from July to October, what all courses are available. All the details, if it is a rerun course, where should I go to check the previous statistics, previous assignment, text transcript, previous videos, all these things I'll be able to see there. Then I come to the portal for enrollment. So, enrollment phase, how to actually enroll into the course that I have shown you correctly. Now comes, if you want to register for the exam, the enrollment exam registration takes place through a different portal. That is examform.impedial.sc.in. You click here, it will take you to the different Imperial Exam Registration Portal page, where you will be selecting your exam date, that is, it's not exam date, exam date will be linked to the course. But you will be selecting the city. You will be giving three choices. Depending on the availability of centers, first will be trying to give the first choice. If not, then only second or third choices will be coming. Okay. Now, at this point, let me take the questions. We also, we can also select allow Swayam to create ABCID. Actually, ABCID is to be created by you. You can just go to the portal call. You just search in Google, like create academic bank of credits. It will give you a complete video is there, how to create the video through your, you can say that the whole process is written there. I just forgot the name of that. Okay. I request you to just follow that steps, which is given in the ABCID creation page is done by the ministry. So I'm portal. Will I get credits in my college? This all depends on whether your college is taking these courses for credit transfer or not. Okay. If your college has accepted these courses for credit transfer, but then definitely you can take it for credit. But if not, in that case, you can join into the course to get a deeper understanding of the abstract courses, which is being taught by your faculty. You also refer to different library resources, right? So even if your college is not taking these courses, you can also consider these courses as your extreme valuable library resources or the reading resources that will give you a strong foundation on certain topics. It can also be exposed to different, say courses from emerging areas, which are not taught as part of your regular curriculum. Okay. And someone said that can be tutoring a Swam portal. Tutoring in Swam portal, I am not very sure. Swam portal is a bigger umbrella. As we said, there are 19 national coordinators. Each has got its own, say, rules and regulation. Until now, we really know what you want to do as part of tutoring. Tutoring means if you want that, okay, as part of PMRF scholar, whatever they are doing, if you want to do similar thing, that is a different part. Otherwise, you really need to be very specific like Swam portal, which platform you want to use. Swam is the portal under which there are different agencies, like NICUS, NCRT, CEC, UGC, IAM, Bangalore, NPTEL, AICT, which one you are referring to. Okay, if you can elaborate on that. Then we'll just show certain statistics that we said that we have created more than 3,000 courses, but considering the read-on courses are more now, we have offered about 5,372 courses that includes both new and read-on offerings. So far, more than 2.3 course learners have enrolled into the program with more than 28.5 lakh learners registering and 18.8 lakh class learners getting a certificate from us. From July semester, we are offering about 690 courses. This has been our journey. We started in 2014 with three courses and little more than one lakh learners. Now, in 2022, in two semester, we offered 1,213 courses with 40 lakh class learners enrolling into the course for learning and more than 7.5 lakhs learners registering for the exam during the last semester, that is January, 2023. We offered 665 courses where we had more than 24 lakhs candidates enrolling into the course and more than 5.1 lakh registered for the certification exam. This has been our journey. Unfortunately, I was just looking at the data of SCSBMB University, Kanchipunam, that they are connected to this program right from 2014. So every semester, whether the number is two or say 40, 45, they were continuous participation over all these semesters. It's not that we only offer the courses which are very popular. We also offer the courses from other disciplines like as minor disciplines like your mining engineering, maybe aerospace engineering, textile engineering, where the numbers are very less, maybe biological sciences and all. So it's not, since it is not a commercial venture, is fully funded by the ministry. So unlike other online course portals, where there is a concept of commercialization, we really do not look into that. And irrespective of whether the course will draw thousands of learners or maybe a select few researchers, we offer the courses for each category of learners. So if you just see from the engineering branch, mechanical, computer science, electrical, electronics, civil engineering, all these, they have got a very good large number of, you can say courses. And equally good number of courses are available from humanities management, as well as if you club the physics, chemistry, mathematics, even economics, psychology, all these courses are available. So we have got spectrum of courses coming from all disciplines you can think of, inputting law, even health sciences courses are coming from LPK. So if someone is interested to learn, I think if they come here out of 690 courses, they will definitely find some courses of their interest where they can join and get a certificate. The examination registration is that 90% of the people who registered for the examination, they turn up at the examination center, that's pretty high compared to any other examination. Even the one if you compare, which directly gives you job. This is not giving a job. It's only giving a course level certificate, but still the people who come here, they have that confidence. After going through a rigorous 12 weeks of learning, they have much more confidence that they will be able to complete the course successfully and 90% of them come turn up. Past percentage has been quite good between 80 to 90, but later on, once we implemented that, okay, there should be a 40% cutoff for the enrolled, for your assignment and the final examination, it has taken a little deep, but again, it's about 70%, that's also pretty good. If you see the gender basis biased, you can say the male-female ratio is 60 to 40, that's pretty good. If you compare even the gender distribution in your colleges, this is much better than what is available in general degree colleges also. If you just look at why people take these courses, you may definitely ask, okay, I'm doing my regular courses, but why should I take this? See, after graduation, what are the things that are available for you? Either you can go for the highest studies or you can just look for the job market, or if you just want to say for the highest studies or job market, you really need to have two components, that is deeper understanding of the core courses and also exposure on the courses from the emerging areas. That is, you should be ready with the skill sets that are required by the industry currently, okay? So, many of the times, NPTEL courses which are created by the faculties, they know what type of dips are required for certain exams they get. So, certain courses will really deal into those aspects. Similarly, the courses, right now we find there are many courses which are coming from the emerging areas and many of the universities are actually offering certain courses, okay? But NPTEL has been continuously, since 2014 when we started this initiative, we have been ahead of time. Depending on the trend in the industry because of the implementation of the industry 4.0, we are offering the courses aligning with each and every component there, okay? So, if you see that many of the people are taking those courses for getting a better job on internship, some are taking for the credit transfer, some are taking these courses for the re-skilling or half-skilling of their knowledge. This could be part of the faculty members or employed professionals. Some are taking these courses for research purpose, particularly the research methodology and courses are taken by the researchers. Many of the courses which are required for the PhD scholars as part of the coursework are now being taken from the NPTEL. Some are taking these courses for better preparation for competitive exam life gate. So, if you just see, okay, 600, 700 courses you are offering but yes, definitely some of these courses are quite popular. That is indicated in terms of their involvement and exam registration. Since the job market is currently tilted towards little bit of we can say data science, data mining, AI, machine learning and all these areas. So naturally the courses which are from that discipline we have got more number of enrollment and exam registration. Again, if you see in an final interview, it's a soft skill that plays a very crucial role. How do I express myself, my body language? Okay, how to prepare a good ratio? How to say answer properly to the HR interview? All these components come into play and it's almost like it's a 40, 50% weightage goes to the soft skill. So a large number of students take the courses which are coming from the soft skill domain. So that's just developing soft skill and personality or soft skill development, body language, all such things are actually taking, like leadership and team effectiveness, all these courses are quite popular amongst the learners. The major challenge before NPTEL is that number of students that they involve in a particular semester from a particular city, it may become difficult for us sometimes to manage those students within the available resources in that particular city. Say for Chennai, 48,000 people registered in the last semester. We are considering, okay, we'll take 5% extra this time. But suddenly if this number jumps to 60,000 then it becomes difficult for us to get the required number of notes in Chennai. So that is the reason we say that if you alert us beforehand, in that case we'll be able to arrange required number of notes so that you are not in convenience to move further away from your city for writing the examination. As we said, we are taking the help of PMRF scholars for conducting live session on problem solving. This is a regular affair, we started with say in January 2022 with 81 courses. Now with every semester we are adding or taking their support for more and more courses. You can see in January 2023, we have utilized the service of 466 scholars and 284 courses were supported. Okay, and they conducted 4,756 individual sessions. All these sessions are conducted on a weekly basis. The dates, times are, you can say, announced beforehand, we always encourage that students should be joining this program for clearing their doubts, understand how to solve the numerical problems and all. If you cannot join here, at least the recording sessions are made available. So at least follow that sessions which will be very beneficial for the learners. The benefit, the feedback that we receive from the students who have undergone these courses or attended these sessions are extremely there for high-precision for this PMRF sessions. Then comes NPTEL staff. What is NPTEL staff? Depending on the, say, your engagement, the learner's engagement with NPTEL and the performance, we are rating the students as NPTEL domain scholar of superstars, evangelist, motivated learners, enthusiast, discipline stars, and believers. How each are different? Say, if you are taking four, five, or six courses in a semester and top are in at least three exams, then we call you NPTEL superstar. If you are present in at least 18 courses, during your four years of, say, undergraduate studies, and if you complete at least two-third of the courses appeared, we call it evangelist. If you are appearing eight exams in four semesters and at least passing two-third of the courses appeared, at least one exam in each four semesters, okay. In that case, that means there is a continuity, then we say you are a motivated learner. But here, if you are not actually, we are completing the same number of courses, say in four semesters, within a span of four semesters, but without a continuity, okay. You might have taken a break in between. So in that case, we call it enthusiast. Similarly, discipline stars and NPTEL believers are there. NPTEL domain scholar do for a little more detailed thing. What is this NPTEL domain scholar? NPTEL domain scholar is a program which guides the student that, okay, if you want to gain a deeper understanding or expertise in the area of your interest, then you can possibly look for the courses, decided by or identified by NPTEL, and complete it within a certain timeline, okay. This will give you, you can say a mass study or strong foundation on that area. So whether you want to go for higher studies in that area or for the job market, this would be really valuable. So each discipline, there are 12 disciplines out of which you have created 51 domains. And each domain has got a set of core courses and a set of elective courses, okay. Maybe there are two, three core courses and equal number of elective courses. And there is a set number of weeks of learning, say 60 weeks, 50 weeks of learning is required. You have to complete all the core and elective courses within a period of three years. Average score should not fall below 60 with a minimum score limited within at least 55 and above. Okay, individual score should not fall below that. If you just want to look at detail about this NPTEL domain, just come here, NPTEL.ac.in slash domains. Here you'll be able to see browser domains. Only discipline-wise, what all domains are available. Say chemical engineering, I am looking for computational chemical engineering domain. It says that I need to complete two core courses and three elective courses from the list of courses under core and elective and the total, say duration of the courses should not be less than 50 weeks. Okay, now if this course is available for enrollment at this point of time, you can directly click here and join to the course. Okay, since this course was offered multiple times, you'll be able to go to the course page and from the read and course list, you'll be having all the information about this course in the previous terms. Okay, what else information is available in this page? If you are looking for, say here, you have got aerospace, biotech, chemical, civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, faculty discipline, humanities, social science, management, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and metallurgy and materials engineering. So these are the domains you have. Now, we say that, okay, you can complete all these courses within three years timeline and get a domain certificate. Who are the domain scholars? How many people are doing? And say what is the distribution? Are the faculty, are the students or are they employed professional? Yes, you can get the complete statistics here, like in the last semester, we had about 158 people who have completed the domains and these are their background. Some of them are faculty, some of them are definitely students. See, here it is written the name of the faculty, college, they are associate and the photographer. Similarly, the students if they are, if it is employed, where they are working. So all these details are available here. So what we ask is that during the period of your three or four years of time, you can definitely choose a particular domain and start completing the domain from beginning so that once you complete your graduation, you should be able to have a domain certificate, whether the course is taken for credit transfer by the university or college as a material, it's your career, you can definitely gain expertise on that area from NPDN domain certification program. Okay, this is how a sample domain certificate will look like. Okay, it will be your photograph, name, which domain you have completed, what are the courses associated with the domain that you have completed and your performance and QR code. All these details are available. So it's a, you can say, merging of different certificates into one. It's not that learners or the scholars, they complete only one domain. There you can find definitely 571 scholars have completed one domain, but there are people like four scholars have completed three domains and 32 scholars have completed two domains. So you are encouraged to take actually one domain at least during the part of your undergraduate studies. Most popular courses among the industries are definitely aligned with that type of job that are currently available in the industry. So data science, AI, machine learning, Python, programming and all the cloud computing, industrial, safety engineering, blockchain, Six Sigma, internet of things, these are quite popular amongst the industry. The different initiative that we have taken eight to 10 initiatives that we have taken, one is definitely with support from the UGC and the ICT. UGC has permitted that 40% of the courses or 40% of the credits allocated for a particular semester can be taken from Swam Ling courses. So there is a Swam course, so you can definitely take some credits from here as part of this regulation. UGC has approved that okay, up to 20% credit can be taken from the semester. Additionally, they have also mentioned that if the students are completing for say 20 extra credits, they may be getting a BTEC honors for a minor degree. Different universities that have taken these courses for credits, they have actually taken this many of the times taken for awarding BTEC honors degree or a minor degree in some other discipline, depending on which domain they are completing, the type of courses they are doing, okay. How the credit transfer takes place, the UGC and ICT has given the guidelines. But again, the academic council of the university or autonomous college has to take a decision on the implementation part. They have to go through the course list, which are the courses they want to take, how much credit they want to assign to that particular course. Okay, now see, we are saying that a 30 hour course is equivalent to three credit, 20 hours is equivalent to two credit and one credit is given to 10 hour courses. That's our recommendation. But the university and autonomous institutions are free to take a decision on its implementation. That is, they can actually make three credit recommended by NPTEL as four credit for their students. Okay, and most of the universities that have adopted this courses, they have actually adopted it in that fashion only. So they have to decide on the list of courses and the credits that will be given. And the list can be published before and by the university. So that students, if they have from reading courses, they'll be able to study that course before the course goes live. Our recommendation based on our experience is that, please do not recommend these courses for the final year degree students because if they do not qualify in getting the certificate, since NPTEL will not be conducting any supplementary exam, so that may put their, say, time schedule of joining, getting degree certificate into jeopardy. So there should be some alternate mechanism from the part of the university or college to conduct the examination separately and give them a degree certificate. We say that first semester, once the students come from the school level to the college, there's a new environment. So they can be given some time to settle them in the new environment and allow them to take some course, primarily from the, say, English language skill or maybe soft skill type of courses, which are of four weeks or eight weeks duration, so that they are not put into stress and they'll also get to know how a new course is offered on how to do, what all activities they have to do on a weekly basis. So this is our, actually, recommendation. Now, we're saying that you can also allow the students to take the courses. If you mention that, okay, if you complete these all courses, then you can produce the certificate and the grade transfer will take place. So the students can complete it and the grade transfer can happen, okay? Maybe you can also recommend that, okay, if you do not have a faculty to teach a particular course for certain courses which are not offered by the college, if those courses can be allowed to be taken as part of the grade transfer from NPK, okay? Let me take one question from Jack of Silling, sir. We are attending the class past week, but some server problems we don't have a application form. Please send the certificate, sir. I really could not understand what you wanted to say. You are attending the class past week. Which class you are attending? Some server problem, you don't have an application form, please send the certificate. If you can kindly elaborate on that, okay, I understand you have done some course, some server problem you are saying, you don't have an application form, which application form and what certificate you are referring kindly elaborate on that. Now, we have also signed, coming back to the presentation, we have also signed an agreement with the ICD, which are controlling the regulation pertaining to the faculty's career perspective and all. So as part of the ICD regulation, some FPP points are required for the career advancement of the faculty members and certain NPTEL courses are marked as FPP courses. And if the faculty members are joining to the course, marking is as a faculty of a college. In that case, on completion of the course, they'll be able to write to us. That means they enrolled into the course for a course which is marked as FPP course, complete the course with certification examination and on successful completion of the FPP certification examination, they can apply for FPP certificate by paying the required fee. The FPP certificate looks like that sample is for you. The four week course is equivalent to half FPP of one week. Eight week course is equal to full FPP of one week and 12 week course has been designated as on and off FPP. These are all as per AICT regulation. Out of 665 courses that we offered last time, 561 courses were FPP courses. That means many of the elective courses and say advanced level courses are part of the FPP certificate program. Exam registration, if you see that consistently about 17 to 20% exam registration comes from the faculty, okay. We are also providing support to the SPOCs. We understand the single point of contact of the local chapter colleges and the brand ambassador of NPTL in their college. So they take a lot of pain, taking the inputs from the NPTL office and disseminating it amongst the CES take holder, whether it is the administration or to the students. They should be motivated, help at different stages in environment to exam registration, taking print of the hall tickets and all these things are required. Since we do not pay anything to them, so just to help them in their career progression, what do you do? If any of their papers have been accepted for presentation in any of the conferences that are conducted in certain institutes like IITs, NITs, the list is provided in the portal, you can see if any of your paper has been accepted there. And if you want to attend to that conference, in that case, NPTL will support your expenses to the extent of 25,000 per conference. That is the expenses are what will be reimbursed towards your registration fee, the travel expenses and accommodation related expenses. In case the SPOC is not taking the benefit, if you have got other faculty who are taking interest in NPTL activities, in that case, if that faculty is interested to participate in that program and eligible by the norms what is said there, you can go to the portal and see it yourself. In that case, you can also recommend their name or availing this support for SPOCs for attending conferences, that is 25,000. Every month, first 10 days of the month, the form remains the application form window is open, you can apply, our team will check, if it meets the criteria, we'll give the approval and completion of the program, you can submit all the documents for the reimbursement of the expenses. For preparation of the gate examination, we have created a gate portal, dedicated gate portal, which is gate.mptl.sc.in. Before the gate examination, what the students will be putting lots of stress or going deeper into the fundamentals of the courses towards doing a lot of problem solving sessions and all. So if they want to study through NPTL, what we have done, they have to select the discipline and the topic they are looking for. And in the syllabus mapping stage, we have created links to the respective video lectures. That is if you want to learn a particular topic, which video lecture in NPTL discusses that, that is syllabus mapping. Then after they go through that, they would like to definitely see maybe a previous solution, NPTL, sorry, gate exam solution. So video-based solutions are also available, made available to the learners so that they can refer to the past exam papers. Before exam, they will definitely like to test their preparation level. So many of the times, people just go for mock test conducted by different agencies. Here, NPTL provides a free mock test facility. That means if you are planning to take gate exam, come to the NPTL portal and take mock test of three hours duration. We also engage PMRF scholars to help the students in gate preparation. That is live mentoring sessions are also provided. So gate syllabus mapping has been done for 10 disciplines. The disciplines are provided here. You can just go to the portal to see more about it. This is the gate portal. What all things we do? Click for the right mouse button here. You'll have gate syllabus mapping. Here, you have got 10 disciplines that we talked about. Say you are talking from say instrumentation engineer. Say you are signals and systems you want to study. Among the signals and systems, you are looking for Laplace transform. Which are the topics? Which are the videos that discusses all these particular topics? So you have got directly mapping there. So this is really helpful. You don't have to spend much time to go through 3,000 courses created by NPTL. You can directly come here and get the required connectivity to the video. Okay, additionally for the say previous video solution, you can go to this page. Say instrumentation only if I just look for. I can select by the year or by topic. If I go say by the syllabus say 2022, these questions solutions are provided here. Additionally, you can also go to practice state that mock test and live mentoring support is also provided. You can explore. The students may be encouraged to take or explore this thing and come to you can take benefit of it. Then comes NPTL class. This is a new initiative again from NPTL. As you know that, okay, say industry people, they may not be having time to spend 3 months time to complete a course. They may want to do certain courses within a very short span of time. As we see that there are many agencies who are taking the NPTL courses and providing it for the certification. That means they're taking the contents from us and provide a certificate from their side. So instead of that, what we have started is that if you are looking for a certification at your own pace and time, you can come to NPTL class, which is NPTL features plus additional features. That means we are not only offering the regular MOOCs as part of this, we are also offering certain courses which are in live and blended mode, short-term, long-term training, skill development programs, all these are part of this. And this can be taken as a self-paced mode. That is if you want to complete a course within, say 12-week course within a timeline of say 12 days. Yes, you can do that here. The only thing is that weekly assignment past month is little higher. Instead of 40 in NPTL, here it is 50. So exam is also conducted on every week. Every week on a particular date, you can write the exam and complete it. So the basic difference is that NPTL courses are more or less on academic approved courses, approved by certain senate or certain universities. But here in NPTLs, you can have any course training program which can be maybe a software tool training or certain skill-based courses. Nothing, no bar is there. Here in NPTL courses are coming from the faculties who are part of the, say, higher education institutions. But in NPTL class, you can have experts coming from the industry also. So these are not only offered in, say, once or twice that is in NPTL, it can be offered anytime. If you just go to NPTL class platform, you will find the course contents are not limited to four, eight, twelve weeks duration, but they can be at least two to four weeks to few months duration also. Okay, we are going to just go to that portal and explore what all things are available. We just see here, like elan.nptl.sc.in, you can see there are certain courses which are of very interest to all learners. See here, this is the courses. You can mark here, like, okay, part-turning courses. It's not only coming from here. Just see the courses, type of courses we offer. Okay, these are part-turning courses. You can see what are NPTL courses available. You can explore more on this. Then comes your internship. Internship means if you are a course topper, you have taken the course and you are topper in any of the courses. In that case, you are eligible to get an internship opportunity in IIT or IAS under the same faculty whose courses you have taken. Say you have done a competitive course and you are topper in that course. In that case, you are eligible to get an internship under the faculty who offer that particular course and in that institution. The duration could be four weeks to 12 weeks and how it is selected. Once the results are declared, we see, okay, who are the toppers. First, get in touch with the faculty. If the faculty is interested to offer the internship, he is available, he or she is available. In that case, we write back to the students, saying that if you are willing to undergo internship under that same faculty, please send your resume. Statement of purpose, last two semester great sheets to us. The faculty will take this into account along with the scores in NPTEL certification and select few students who will be invited to go to the particular institution and undergo the internship program. Currently, during this semester, more than I think 220 people are undergoing internship. At this point, about 70 people are undergoing internship in different IITC. Another internship is from directly from our industry partner, Texas Instruments. Particularly the faculty members who are part of electrical electronics, computer science, they know Texas Instruments is a leading name in IEC manufacturing, integrated semiconductor industry. So Texas Instruments in association with NPTEL offers some sort of internship to some of the students of NPTEL on completion of certain courses. That is, if you complete, say, basic electrical circuits and either analog circuits or analog circuit design, along with that, if you complete, say, circuit analysis for analog designers, introduction to time-varying electrical networks, phase block loop, and power management integrated circuits within, say, four semesters or eight semesters, then you are eligible to go for TI internship. We recommend your name to TI, where he will be facing some interview, and if you qualify in that, you can directly go for that internship. So that is also available. We understand that the students just having a deep understanding of the, say, their domain knowledge cannot actually fetch an internship or job because their body language, once they go into the industry or wherever they are working, they will not be working alone. They will be working in a group. So there is a need to know whether the students will be able to accommodate within that group. They can work in a team, in an environment. They have a output. Is there, say, writing or speaking communication skills, whether they can actually prepare the ratio, how do they actually find out the jobs available through the social media platforms. All these things are important. So in addition to what courses we are offering from the SOF skill, we are also imparting SOF skill training for the learners, particularly from the TR2, TR3 city colleges. If the students have taken the NPTEL courses and if they do not have any provision of SOF skill training, then the college can write back to us. We have got our dedicated trainers, SOF skill trainers, who can impart the training of two durations. One is seven days duration, another is two weeks duration. During this period, they will be taught on, say, they will be having Employability Assessment Test, they will be English Language Assessment Test, HR MOOC interview will be there. During the MOOC interviews or interactive sessions, the trainers will point out what are the shortcomings and how to improve on that. The common question that they are likely to face in the, say, HR interview, what, how to respond to that. All these things are trained as part of this SOF skill training. Okay, so not only during the day they get some training, at the end they are also given certain homework which they have to complete and submit. The SOF skill training has been extremely beneficial for the learners because the feedback that we receive from different learners are before you. These are also available in our feedback channel that will talk different social media channels where we are present and where we publish all these success stories and the activities that we do on a regular basis. Now we know that a large number of learners come from the say, employed professional that is where they need to risk or upskill to NPTEL courses they are doing. So there is a continuous need for the industry to get their people trained through NPTEL. As part of that program we are engaging with certain industries as their industry that is engaging like colleges are connected with us as NPTEL local chapter we call it NPTEL industry associate program. Here the industry participate for mutual benefit on multiple aspects. Not only they are part of the say sometimes they offer the courses along with IT faculties they also provide valuable inputs to the learners they conduct differentiation talk about say current trends in the industry leadership talks they give different talks which you conducted an extension number digging the COVID phase these recorded versions are available and anyone can take this. They are also supporting us in our through the CSR initiative these are the you can see currently we have about 87 industries which we are connected as NPTEL industry associate program. They are not only from the IT industry but you can see power generation transmission semiconductor industry consumer electronics mining minerals all segments of people whether it's a government sector or private sector everyone is connected and life sessions have been conducted by industry experts from different areas CSR initiative through which certain industries and few individuals have been supporting us to a generous contribution that is the fund that we receive from there is to provide support to the needy students who are recommended by the local chapter colleges for fee waiver you know certain students from the local chapter colleges cannot pay even thousand particularly we look for the colleges which are tier 2, tier 3 if the colleges feel that the students is genuinely in need of say financial support we ask them that okay you recommend the name of the students after verifying the financial status of the students and on receipt of the recommendation if we have the fund we provide 50% fee waiver to the needy students as recommended by the college now these students they have to pay 1000 rupees and register for the exam but on successful completion of the examination the 50% fee will be refunded back to the students okay more than 1.4 lakh students have already benefited from this CSR initiative provided by the different corporate houses and certain individuals translation I have shown you that okay the in a rerun course page you will find not only the text transcripts are available in English in certain courses you will be having regional languages scripts also now this translation activity that is converting the English text into different other regional Indian languages we definitely look forward your support if you are having a knowledge of a particular course and if you are good at a particular local language you can definitely join into this initiative write to us you can take part in the translation activity the token amount is also paid to the to recognize the effort of the translator faculties so it is not only that okay you create the content you are actually part you can be part of the translation activity and if it is converted actually the name is also embedded like who has done the translation part so possibly you can engage with MPTL in the translation activity we definitely look for your support this is what translation activities have been undergoing and completed we really need to do much more and your support will be extremely valuable in taking this process forward we are available in our different social media handles like LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook Twitter and YouTube whatever activities that takes place on our front we always publish this information through all these social media handles as well as the students who are interested to share their success stories we also publish those information for the benefit of other learners okay you can see the number of followers in each of the social media handles the NPTL starts we definitely recognize these efforts of these NPTL starts and provide them the results so that they can probably show it to the outside world their achievements in the NPTL lab workshops are conducted which is usually of one year duration this goes around the year and you can say during this period that student will be a batch of 30 to 40 students will be going to a particular institution and they will be undergoing say theory and practical sessions during the first five days and the sixth week will be exposed to an examination okay so they get an exposure on the setup that are possibly not available in their academic institution and they also get to know say different other people their networking support they get that is they can connect with the different other people from higher and institutional institutions okay these laboratory workshops they carry a certificate and which is of one credit we take or charge 100 rupees for this workshop which is highly subsidized one and the students have to bear the accommodation and food expenses during their stay in that particular institution the local chapter if you just see at the local chapter for the new colleges how to become a local chapter what are the benefits associated with it that we will see now to become a local chapter you really don't need any infrastructure just an interest to the local chapter is what is needed so there is a format the letter is to be submitted from the signed by the head of the institution on the type of the institution and recommending the name of the faculty will be acting as a single point of contact on the seat of those information through that single letter in the official letter A will just our team will check the credentials and create a dedicated page of local chapter college that means we will approve the college as a local chapter and create a local chapter page of that college under NPTEL local chapter section so there in addition to the SPOC data you will be having all activity related information related to that institution that is whoever is taking the courses all this information will be available there what are the benefits available you will get complete information of the learners from their college to the dashboard that is how many people have enrolled whether the faculty has enrolled or not how to actually say recognize that faculty as a mentor, approve that faculty as a mentor, the few ever approvals request for the local examination center if there is no exam center nearby you can actually send your request from there and based on the performance of the students of that local chapter the colleges recognize that the local chapter or top rated local chapter like AAW, AAAA and mentors are also given certificate based on the performance local chapters are spread across the country as you can see the number of colleges from each state is shown here top 100 colleges based on the performance we identify 100 colleges rating as AAAA and AA and these colleges are recognized or felicitated during the SPSU workshop at the end of the semester on 4 zones whichever zone the college remains from that zone wherever say SPSU workshops are coming they are felicitated there local chapters are also available outside the country about 50 colleges we are tied up participation from the local chapter has been maximum almost 90% enrollment comes from the local chapters itself if a local chapter from a local chapter if there are 25 candidates present in an examination and at least 50% of them at least that is 13 minimum 13 people qualify to get the certificate then the first recognition comes to the local chapter in the form of active local chapter okay statewide enrollment I skip this one for the new local chapter the suggestion is that you talk during the grade transfer also initially you may choose to recommend soft skill or English courses then go for the programming courses and recommend for the skill based courses like AI, machine learning, data science, internet of things etc you can encourage your students to take courses within the course semester complete a particular domain and explore the gate portal for the benefit of gate examination which is not only connected for the say masters at the higher education institute with fellowship but also for the jobs in the public sector undertakings initially you can definitely think of the rerun courses because the videos are available one set of assignment questions are available to guide mentors should be appointed students can approach them as a first level of escalation point if you are taking for the grade transfer maybe you can select a particular sort in your timetable during which the mentor will be able to interact with the students and ensure that during NPTEL exam days which is actually mentioned at least one year in advance that I have shown for 2024 also you will be able to see the exam dates please do not put any college activities during the NPTEL exam days ratings based on the performance as we said that the mentors also get a certificate they need to earn 10 mentorship point to get the certificate and mentorship points are linked to the performance say if they are successfully completing maybe they are getting 1 then 2 for say they completed say 5 is for the scoring between 60 to 74 8 between 75 to 89 and so on there is a IT Madras has started a BS degree program where the students who are currently in any of the academic program of the faculty members who are in academic program they can actually parallelly do a second degree from IT Madras in that there are two disciplines which are data science and application and electronic system this is a very good opportunity to earn a degree from IITs without the IIT say joint and run system mission advanced joint and run system then how do the admission takes place you enrol in a say qualifier process that is in a qualifier process you enrol into that you get a 4 weeks content you complete the 4 weeks content periodically submit the assignment and based on your assignment score and exam score after say 4 weeks if you identify to get certain marks you are permitted to join this program there is no age limit to join contents are available online periodically you will be given recorded contents but there will be regular regular means regular on a daily basis there will be interaction for doubt clearing sessions you can say join into the program take it in a slow pace that is 4 years degree program can be completed within a 30 years you can leave it at any point so multiple exit points are available that is first level is a foundation level second level is diploma third is BSC fourth is BS so if you want to complete only diploma just complete the diploma you can quit so in BSD data science who are the applicable who can actually join if you have studied only say mathematics and English in the standard you are eligible to apply similarly for the people those have studied say mathematics and say physics in the 10 plus 2 standard they are eligible to join for the electronic system so electronic system has got another benefit is that there is an in-person laboratory exam after every semester that is you complete the session then come to IIT Madras work here for the laboratory sessions so it's very lucrative that okay you are directly working under the faculty of IIT in the same environment and the people those who complete the BSD they are recognized as an alumni of IIT Madras okay so eligibility criteria I have said that admission processes first you apply then go through the four weeks of qualifier content pass the qualifier exam and join the foundation level and the foundation level has got four levels primarily foundation, diploma and in data science program you have got a BSC program for the electronic system you do not have a BSC program you have a BS program so anyone can join irrespective of the age there are many students who are taking these courses from abroad school level and all so you can actually write the examination for once you are just on the verge of completing your 12 standard with this I will just complete my session they also I will just show you that they also the students of BS program also come to IIT Madras for taking different participating in different activities mixing with the two other say the PR groups who are spread across the country interact with the faculties take part in different in campus activities that the students participate can definitely explore this and take it dual degree from IIT Madras that is in addition to what you are pursuing you can get either a diploma or degree from IIT Madras with this I hand over the stage to the SPOC since I am not finding any questions so if there are any questions I will be ready to answer to that otherwise I can stop here over to you sir same thing sir over to you yes ma'am I think Sendil Kumaran sir due to some internet issue he signed out he will come back shortly meanwhile I have two or three queries to get known from your so if for example if a student is enrolling in any of your course starting from third semester onwards and every semester he or she is getting some score and totally 20 credits has been added to the course that 20 credits can be incorporated in the degree certificate anywhere that the student has completed this many courses with this degree what is the benefit or what is the outcome that the student will be benefited after completing this credits and it will be any useful for the higher education something like that please elaborate on this issue since your is personally takes care of the btch part also or b what type of degree that you want but what type of degrees you award to the students we offer engineering and science engineering students what type of degree they get btch is it honors degree or you just write we have only b but in later two years before only we started btch honors yes if you just see the act guidelines it says that if a student completes 20 extract credits from swam link courses then the students can be awarded a b or btch honors okay fine okay so that's a huge benefit so that is what we say that okay the many of that like say I'll tell you university like the city in Kolkata, West Bengal they are clearly identified like okay first semester they will be doing certain courses not first semester first year they have to complete eight credits they have identified certain courses like ethics and engineering practice one soft skill and I think one more course on the programming possibly on the python they have identified that these three courses they have to complete in the first year okay in the second year honors they can complete four four credits each so it's not too much pressure on them if they complete 20 extra credit and the end of eight semester they will be getting a btch honors whereas the similar thing has been say transferred in a different format in which you put like university of technology that controls the engineering and management situation in Odisha what they have done instead of btch honors they are giving a minor degree that means if they do certain courses that they have identified from particular area they get a minor degree say someone is doing from civil engineering but minor in computer science if they do certain courses okay so that type of provision has been done by different universities for the benefit of learners and as far as the say if they are thinking about job opportunities is there and say you need a lot of exposure on the emerging areas to be job ready in the current scenario because you know because of implementation of the industry 4.0 the market is changing very rapidly and every after three or four years things change so since the NPTEL is offering the courses aligning with the newer trends maybe the students can take these courses where they will have a rigorous practice say they are taking a course on python every day they will be having a lot of practice and a lot of problems here so in addition to what they are doing in the university on a regular basis they can also practice a lot of other things here in this program so that will build up their confidence and they can actually crack say interviews and more much better thank you sir thank you so much thank you I know what more questions are raised in that YouTube chat box some faculty members wants to develop a new course and to do it if so how to do it usually see the courses we offer then comes your final say it is not only one course you are offering the courses are offered for certification then comes once it comes for the certification purpose then you really need to offer it from a particular institution okay now there are say nine what details NPTEL is one of them now if NPTEL wants to give a certificate because here it has to ensure that the faculty can deliver the quality content will be delivered the faculty will meet all the timeline requirement so there should be some guarantee from some okay otherwise if I say that okay your university is offering that degree but I want to offer a course from outside and I will be teaching the course for your students you give your degree your university will think thrice that why I do not know that person why should I give a certificate on his behalf or his or her behalf from our university same goes for the Swam platform so Swam platform would definitely like to check the credential of the faculty and then only allow one of the mechanism is that if the faculty can engage with any other faculty from IIT system then the IIT faculty will take the responsibility okay if something goes wrong blame is on me okay that is someone has to take the ownership of the program and if we just give it to someone else and if there is a some issue ultimately the responsibility comes to NPTEL or any other Swam coordinator for management one of the other coordinator because the question was related to management and accounting you can possibly approach IIM Bangalore or if it is from a general degree college you can also approach UGC or CEC consortium for educational communication depending on the level if it is a UG level course CEC can be approached if it is a PG level course UGC can be approached if it is a management level only management level course IIM Bangalore can also be approached okay Sandal Kumaran sir it is after you hello good afternoon sir good afternoon sir yes so let me share about that impact at SESVMV so there was some issue with network connectivity for my system that was it sir this is our university website okay so in this we have created a dedicated link for NPTEL local chapter at SESVMV so my screen is sharing yes sir yes and we have created a dedicated webpage for this NPTEL local chapter at SESVMV so what were the brochures which are sharing by NPTEL so we used to add it and related to that swine local chapter and also we have collected lot of videos from NPTEL sir and it is available in our university portal itself and how to handle the courses for the students also we have created video for our students as well as the faculty members so there is a video which we have created for our university faculty members as well as the students there is a presentation what I have so we have been taking part of this local chapter from 2014 onwards and huge number of students were enrolled from 2015 onwards to till date but the problem is the conversion rate from the endowment to the certification actually we have first previous years so to overcome that one actually we are planning to go with that credit transfer also from this forthcoming semesters so in addition to that actually we are planning to have department coordinators in addition to that NPTEL spark so in our university we have 70 departments so each department we are planning to have one coordinator so that they will interact with the students and we will have more number of improvements for the sound link courses and this is related to credit transfer and many students and staff members got certificates for various courses for the last years and some of the students got that a few years also from our university so thank you for NPTEL such opportunity given to us for scholarship also so this is related to the pie chart its enrolment history of our university starting from 2018 to 2022 so impact so based on this enrolment we have excellent placement record and also good internship attainment also we have got it and reason trans adaptation also multidisciplinary knowledge can be and that is added so for and added values and skills for the students as well as the faculty members also so the facility already have shown you that dedicated webpage so this one thing so thank you so let me invite Janani ma'am to propose what of thanks I thank the team for providing such a useful workshop this has helped the participants to get some ideas in the various sectors like domain expectation, e-learning certificate examination, internship efforts in institutions and industry level, soft skill training for the local chapter industry association especially in translation side even in the industry association especially in translation side even I have applied for translation and I am doing one course so I thank the management of SCSVMV for giving permission to conduct this workshop online EU workshop I also thank Dr. Sendil Kumaran head of the department CSE coordinating with the NPTEL team to conduct this workshop in a grand manner I thank the expert speaker who has given very good information related to this NPTEL workshops and I will just take necessary action in this year coming year to increase the number of students towards the various certifications as well as the faculty members to get registered as well as appear for the examination so I thank the IQSE team for attending this workshop I also thank the participants from various colleges and various domains who have spent these two hours to conduct this workshop effectively and we got some few queries in the live chat as well as the expert speaker has given the explanation clearly I thank all the participants once again thank you one and all what is the question ma'am the certificate link is provided in the live chat I request all the participants to fill the certificate ma'am yes sir thank you for joining the session ma'am thank you thank you studio can please stop livestream