 Let me start. Could I start now? Yes, yes, please. Good morning everybody. I'm Priya Darshini from Symmage Professional College, Patna. And thank you very much for connecting with us. All students of all three colleges are connected with us today. And they will be seeing this workshop online on YouTube. So I think we should start now. Welcome. I'm Sushri Pradhya. Beautiful. Thank you so much, Sushri. Thank you very much. Thank you, Sushri. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Hey you know what? Hi. I'm K. I'm sushri. I'm Sushri Pradhyay. And I'm what's going on today? Sushri. Yeah. Sushri. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. Hey, hey. I think we should now start and all our students are in the classes. They are seeing it live in the classes itself. We have connected it with the digital board and they will be seeing it there. Okay, good morning everyone. Myself Shivshankar Das, I am from NPTEL office at Madras. Welcome to this NPTEL e-Virnance workshop being organized by IIT Madras in association with CIMH, Professional College Patna Bihar. Let me share my screen and then I will take it forward. I hope you all can see my screen. So during this talk, I will be primarily talking about all these things. What is NPTEL? Swayam? How to enroll into the course? How to complete it? What are the activities that are available that are to be done during a particular week? How do the credit transfer takes place? Then particularly for the student's perspective, what is domain certification? How to get an internship opportunity through NPTEL? How to improve on your soft skill perspective to NPTEL? If someone is interested for competitive exam like gate or jobs in public sector and retakeings, they need to clear their gate examination. In that case, how NPTEL portal can help you in gate preparation? Then particularly for the faculty members, what is faculty development program and how NPTEL is connected with that? We will also talk about different other initiatives like lab workshops, corporate social that is few ever schemes and all. Then we will also see NPTEL plus, what is that self-paced courses. We will talk little about local chapter, the benefits associated with it and we will also take the question and answer. So instead of waiting till the end for the question and answer, since the students are seated in the class, maybe it will be good that if you have got any doubt, please post your queries as I talk through the chat box. Through YouTube chat box, please post your queries so that I feel I am not talking just in a blank space. I have got some responses coming from the YouTube chat boxes. Okay, so let's move forward. So NPTEL, what it is? Sir, could I say something? Yes, please. Can we do that? We get the questions from the student and I have posted to you all together. That is also okay. In between also you can stop me because say certain things I am talking and at that point the students need a clarification on that aspect. We can definitely answer to that point at that point itself. Okay, instead of waiting till the end. So you can definitely interrupt me whenever I usually what I do, I will just check the if I say continue with this slide. As soon as I complete that slide then you can, before we move to the next slide, you can take the questions, you can interrupt me. Okay, yeah, that's right. Because then in that case, it will be something like a interactive session. Okay, so what NPTEL is an educational project of Ministry of Education, Government of India, which started in 2003 with seven older IITs and IISC Bangalore as the partnering institution. During the early phase, IITs have been actually creating content that means recording the contents delivered by the faculty members in the classrooms of IIT. The way they teach it to the IIT students that is to be recorded and made available. From 2014, we have started online course certification program. That means in addition to the contents, the students will get a feel of the type of activities that takes place in a regular classroom and will also be able to write an examination at the end of the course and the certificate which comes from IITs or IISC or other top institutions will be definitely valuable and improve the you can say value addition or add value addition to their ratio for getting the job opportunities or internship opportunities. We have already crossed 20 years of our journey together and it's one of the largest inter-institutional projects. During this phase, we have created more than 3,000 unique courses. Individual course count, if you see, is more than 3,000 with more than 5.5 million people subscribing to our NPTEL HRD channel through which these contents are distributed for VV. And if you see the number of views, it is more than 1.6 billion. In total, if you say, we have got more than 62,000 hours of videos with many of the videos are being created with English subtitles. So what started with the vision to provide high quality affordable education at large scale, we are now also offering the online certification and also conducting regular workshop so that these contents are being used by the say colleges and universities as part of the credit transfer or to help the learners in self-learning process and be prepared better for the job market. These NPTEL courses are offered through a platform called Swayam, which is an acronym study, waves of active learning for the young aspiring mites. So it's an umbrella body. Say it's a common umbrella through which created by the ministry through which all say institutes whoever wants to offer the course in an online format, they will be offering the course through the Swayam platform. So I understand that there could be students who are in the school, they would be interested to take some course, and there could be PhD scholars who will be requiring a different set of course. So all the courses that you may look for, offering the complete spectrum of the learners can definitely cannot be offered by a single institute. That is the reason ministry has created different national coordinators under the Swayam portal. One of the national coordinator is NPTEL. This NPTEL is primarily targeted to create and offer the contents targeting the undergraduate and postgraduate engineering courses. But we are also offering equally good number of courses from humanities and social science, basic sciences, that is physics, chemistry, mathematics and all, as well as management. These days we are also offering the courses from health sciences, your certain laws, law courses, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, all these courses are also being provided to NPTEL. So since NPTEL courses are offered through the Swayam, if someone says that Swayam courses are to be taken, you can say that NPTEL courses are Swayam courses too. So the online certification process started in 2014, and we follow a MOOCs format. That means it is massive open online courses. The number of students say the students who are seated in the classrooms at your college, you have a limit like how many students can attend that to the class of a particular faculty at any point of time. That depends on the classroom size, how many sitting, what is the sitting capacity. But in a MOOCs format, that limitation is not there. Since the contents are open and online, that means they are offered over the internet, and anyone just having the interest and online connectivity or internet connectivity should be able to access this content. So the number of students who can enroll in any particular course are actually unlimited. You can have 100 or you can have hundreds of thousands of people enrolling at any point of time in a course. And the courses are also structured exactly in the same way, how your regular college structure, college in the college, how the courses are structured. That means it has a fixed syllabus. It has a start date, end date. On a weekly basis, you have got certain amount of lectures. There is some amount of interaction takes place. Maybe weekly quizzes. And at the end, you have got either mid semester or final semester exam for certification purpose. Exactly we follow all these concepts here also. And these courses can be taken by anyone. And they can join the course anytime, anytime means within the schedule time, they can learn it at their own pace and time from wherever they are. Okay, I can study during the day. I can study during the night. If I can, I have, I can just learn it from my college. I can learn it from my home, wherever I am, I should be able to enroll into the course and get access to that. Now the courses are offered during two times in a year, one during the January and another starting in July. So in July, right now we are in August, the semester which started from July, these courses enrollment are still open. So the July run and January run, which are aligned with the semesters of your colleges. Okay, now if you say that July run courses are being offered now, when did the enrollment start? For July run courses, the enrollment usually opens two months ahead of time, that is in May. And for the January run courses, the enrollment opens in November. Now who can take this course and how many courses they can take? Say if you are doing a course on BCA, you can take any course that interest you. If you want to learn, say a course on Japanese language or say German language, or you want to take something from the computer science, in addition to computer science, you want to take from some other discipline, physics, if astrophysics is very interesting to you, you can take all the, all those courses. So you can join to any course, any number of courses that is of interest to you. And there are no charges. That means you can join to these courses without paying any fee. Whatever you are doing, whether you are a student, you are a faculty member, you are a retired professional, currently working professional or even a homemaker, whoever it may be, you can join to any course that interest you and the number of courses where you can enroll is not limited. It is limited by your capacity only. You can join into the course and learn the concept freely without paying any fee because the Ministry of Education, Government of India is totally funding. But if you want to write the examination, then you have to register separately by paying a fee to NPTEL portal. Now, if you see the look at the course features, in your college, you must have a semester like it start from July, it goes up to say October, November. So there is a fixed duration during which the course will be offered. So our courses are offered in three formats, either the course duration could be four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks. That means one month, two months or three months duration. And in terms of total hours, how many hours of lectures will be there? It is translated to 10 hours, 20 hours or 30 hours respectively at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture per week. That means every week you will be having 2.5 hours of lecture to be studied. Now these 2.5 hours of lectures are not of one single video of 2.5 hours. These are small segments, say like half an hour size videos, which you can easily download and study at your convenience time. Now we follow the four quadrant approach. What are these four quadrants? Instead of just faculty teaching in front of you in the classroom, these lectures are recorded and 2.5 hours of pre-recorded lectures are made available to you on daily, on a weekly basis. Every week that lecture will be made available so that you can study that. Then in a classroom, you have a teacher with whom you will be interacting. So that interaction takes place through a web-based interactive forum. Additionally, the faculty will also come live on YouTube, the way I am interacting with you today. The faculty will be coming and interacting with you when, say, you have taken a course on C++ programming. In that case, once the faculty comes, you all will be connected to the YouTube chat, YouTube. And if you have got any question to want the faculty to explain to that, you will be posting your queries and the faculty will be responding. So in addition to the web-based interaction, you will also have your periodic interaction with the faculty through YouTube live sessions. Additionally, there are PhD scholars who are there to support you in problem-solving sessions. Say you are doing a course on C++. The faculty will be talking about the theoretical perspective in the lecture, but you will be given a lot of problems. That means programming problems will be given. How to solve all those things? If you have got any doubt, then to help you in that, there are PMRF scholars, prime ministers, research fellow scholars who will be conducting the session every week. And if you attend to that, it will be extremely beneficial because you will be able to know how to solve different problems. In a classroom, the faculty may give you something like handwritten notes as a study material. Here also, we do provide you supplementary study material that could be in the form of slides. That is the PowerPoint slide that faculty might have used. The text transcript of the video. That means whatever way the faculty has said exactly, English transcript of that will show you what it is. All these things are part of study materials. And once you go through all these first three steps, then you have to complete one weekly assignment, self-assessment quiz, where you can have between, say, 10 to 20 questions related to that week's 2.5 hours of video. You have to solve the problems that are part of that assignment. Each assignment is graded out of 100. That means you have a fixed timeline. Within 10 days' timeline, you have to solve the assignment questions. And once you submit, there is a 10 days' timeline. Beyond 10 days' timeline, on expiry of the timeline, you'll be able to see what is your score out of 100 in that particular assignment. And a part of this kindly note that your performance in the weekly assignment will be reflected in your certificate because some part of your assignment score will be part of your final certificate also. Certification exam features. Stocked or in-person, center-based exam. That means you may take the course from the comfort of your home. But if you want to write the examination, you have to come to the center. You have to register separately. Then you'll be allotted the exam center. You'll go in the hall ticket and a valid identity proof. Government issued identity proof. And write the exam in a proctored environment. That means there will be some people from NPTEL who will be seeing that everything is done as part of approved policy. Exam centers are spread across the country, including Patna. We have got Patna. Not only that, there are many other centers in Bihar. Okay, from where you can write the examination. The choice of city. While you are filling up the form, then you'll be selecting what is your choice of city. So based on that, we'll be allocating your exam center. In each semester, you'll be having three exam dates. And there will be two exam sessions every day on every exam day. That means one in the morning between nine to 12, another between two to five. There are two sessions on each date. So total six sessions in a semester. And if you are interested, you can actually write exam for six courses in a semester. As you said, that okay, if you want to learn the course, you can join the course without paying any fee. But if you want to write the exam, you have to pay certain fees. The fee amount is 1000 rupees per course irrespective of the course duration. That is whether the course duration is four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks, the fee remains same. However, if a candidate belongs to SCST category or has got some disability with more than 40% disability, in that case, these candidates can get a fee waiver to the extent of 50%. That means these candidates will be registering for the examination by paying 500 rupees exam fee. Once the exams are conducted, we say that the exams are conducted in exam center. How the exams are conducted, these are conducted in two different modes, either it is online or offline. In case of online, the question paper will be coming on the screen and you have to answer in the same screen only. Whereas in case of offline, the question papers will only be appearing in your screen, but you'll be given normal answer screen where you have to use your pain and write the answers. This is the basic difference in online and offline. The question appears in the screen only. In online, you'll be responding in the computer descent whereas in offline, you'll be writing on to the piece of paper. Once the exam date is over, within 30 days from that, we try to release the examination score, your results. Along with that, we will also be releasing the soft copy of the certificate. These certificates will be signed by the institute that is offering the course. Say, your course, you have taken a course which is offered by, say, IIT Guwahati. In that case, IIT Guwahati faculty or the coordinators of IIT Guwahati will be signing the certificates and it will definitely bear the logo of NPTEL and so on. These certificates will also carry your roll number and keyword code because if you want to submit this certificate to any agency who wants to verify whether this is an authentic certificate or not, they can simply use a mobile QR code scanner which will take them directly to the NPTEL portal and they'll be able to see the certificate from the NPTEL portal. Okay, then the certification criteria. So every week, you have got a weekly assignment and there are courses which are four weeks, eight weeks or 12 weeks. That means if you are taking a 12-week course, there are 12 assignments. Each assignment is graded out of 100. That means 1200 marks are involved in that. Okay, you are submitting every week. Then at the end, for certification purpose, what we'll do? We'll carry the 25% weightage of the final certificate from the average assignment score. How will we calculate? If you are taking a 12-week course, then the best eight assignment scores, say, you have submitted all the assignments, then we'll check which are the best assignment scores, eight numbers. Calculate that. Out of 800, each with 100 marks. Out of 800, what is your total score? Then take an average. Out of 100, what is your score? And 25% or one fourth of that is directly taken to the certificate. And here you have to get at least 10 marks. Okay, to get a certificate final. Final examination will be, say, 100 marks is a final exam score. Then whatever you get there, 75% will come from the final exam score. Okay, that means if you've got 80 marks out of 100 in the final exam, we'll consider that you have got 60 marks out of 75. We'll be scaling it down. But for the final examination, where, say, the courses are like CC++, Java, Python, Verilog, such courses which are programming in nature, you'll have additional test, that is non-proper programming test before the examination. Once the exam dates are marked, you know, the exam dates are published much ahead of time, just before the exam, there will be a particular date on which we'll be conducting your programming test. That means one during the day, one during the night, you'll be given something like what you do in every weekly assignment, you'll have to go to the portal and in the portal at the designated time, exam time, you'll be having a programming problem given there, a set of programming problem, which you have to solve it within the timeline. Since there are two time slots, you can write it in any of the time slot that is convenient for you. If you feel that, okay, you want to write it in both the sessions, you can do that, whichever score is higher, that will be counted. And for the programming courses, the final examination will carry only 50 percent marks and the remaining 25 percent marks will come from your non-proper programming test. This test, you can take it from your college, you can take it from your home also at night. But the condition for getting a certificate is that you have to get 40 percent score individually in every segment. Now, based on the consolidated score, if your total score is above 40, then only we say you are eligible to get a certificate. Less than 40, we say you are unsuccessful and we do not give you even a participant, what is called your participation certificate. Scores between 40 to 59, we call it is successfully completed. Between 60 to 100, you will be getting the certificate, which will carry an allied tag. This word will be written on the top of the certificate I will show you. Between 75 to 89, in addition to the allied word, there will be a silver medal symbol printed on your certificate and we call it elite silver. For scores between 90 to 100, you will be having elite and a gold medal symbol printed on your certificate, which we call elite gold. If your score is within the top 1 percent to 5 percent of the successful candidates, your certificate will also carry a top percent, what is shown here. Top 1 percent, 2 percent or 5 percent. So, before I move to the next slide, I will take a question. Shorok Kumar is asking sir, what is non proctor test? Non proctor test means this is a programming exam, which will be done by you, where there will not be any supervision by NPTEL staff. Okay. Final exam, which is conducted in your exam center, it is proctored. Why it is called proctored? Because there will be NPTEL staff who will be monitoring your activities. But in case of programming courses, before the exam, as I said, there will be a programming test at that point, since you can take the course from your home or from your college. Since this is conducted in two sessions, there will not be any member of NPTEL who will be supervising whether you are doing it properly or not. So, that is why it is called non proctor. I hope Shorok, your point is clear now. This is how a sample certificate looks like. So, if you have got any questions, you are most welcome to post it there so that we can take and respond as we progress. So, this is the sample NPTEL certificate, core certificate. It will be your photograph. So, definitely, since it is carrying your photograph, you should always give a formal photograph because you may produce this certificate, not only to your college, but also you may actually submit it to a prospective employer. So, giving a formal photograph is always advisable. It will carry your name, the course you have attended, your consolidated score and individual scores in your online assignment, that is online assignment out of 25, what is your score and in the proctored exam out of 75, what is your score that will be reflected. Also, when this course was offered and how many candidates were successful in this particular session, all this information will be provided. You will have a NPTEL logo, Swyam logo, as well as the QR code and your roll number. So, by QR code, if you produce that certificate to me, I do not have to check, I can simply check the authenticity of the certificate by using my mobile phone and a QR code scanner. QR code will just give me the link of the certificate to our NPTEL server, so, where from I will be able to see the original certificate. Now, important points to remember, particularly for the examination point of view, we will be identifying each of the learners by your unique email ID. So, as long as you use the same email ID, you will be able to know who will be knowing that if this is, say, Shorab Kumar has used a particular email ID for enrollment in a particular course. As long as Shorab uses that same email ID in the subsequent semester, it will be easy for us to track what all courses he has done, as well as the Shorab will also be able to identify what all courses he has completed. Amrit, you are asking, what you have not understood, if you can tell me, I will be able to answer, I can use a mix of Hindi, English, so that you understand it, okay? Please write it down, which one you have not understood, okay? And one more thing you have to see is that the exam dates, as you will enroll, before the enrollment, you have to see that the exam dates of that course, that is, suppose you have to take 3-4 courses, have you said that on a particular date, you have got 2 exam sessions. So, you have to see that you do not select more than 2 courses, whose exam dates are the same, because you can write 2 courses in a day, okay? And use the same email ID for the course enrollment and exam registration. Suppose you have enrolled with an email ID, but on the second email ID of the exam registration, you will get a certificate now, after you enroll, you submit your weekly assignments, 25% will come from that number, and 75% will come from the final exam, if you have changed your two email IDs, then in that case, you will get 0 marks in the assignment, or I am not able to find it, okay? Someone is telling those who are getting less than 40% marks, can he get certificate or not? No, what I said is that you have to get 40% individually in final exam, as well as in your assignments, average assignments score. That means out of 25, you should get 10, and out of final exam 100, you should get 40, which is equivalent to 30 marks out of 75, until and unless you get 30 and 10 separately, in the final exam and your assignment, you will not get a certificate, okay? So, it's not only getting 40% marks individually, totally, you have to get 40% marks individually, and until and unless you get that 40% marks, even if you write the exam, you will not get a certificate. What I mean to say is that, suppose you have not got 40% marks in your assignment, you have got, say, 8 marks out of 25, so even if you write the exam and get 100 out of 100 in the final exam, you will not be getting a certificate, okay? Programming web developer is asking, sir, exam online mode, mode may come over, we will show you the exam timeline in the next slide, we will tell you that. What will be the benefit of this? You will know in a little while, what is the benefit, okay? Sir, you will get your certificate online mode to mode, yes, you will be getting it. Listen carefully, I said that you will get all the certificates online. Unit Kumar is asking, this non-procterate exam will be conducted in NPTEL centers or in exam online class. Unit Kumar ji, you must have missed, I once said that you can take non-procterate exam in your college, you can take it at home, you can take it on a day, you can take it at night, okay? So, I have said that non-procterate examination is done once a day, once a night, you can write anywhere and it is not in the center, that is why it is non-procterate, okay? And one more thing you have to keep in mind, for some courses, you have to read the calculator. Use of calculator is essential, and physical calculator will not allow you to use it in the exam hall. So, what do you have to do? You have to use online calculator. Where will you go? TCS, the link I gave you, if you apply this link, you will get the calculator. If you need a calculator in your course, then you will have to practice this. Every week when you get the assignment, then if you use A, then you will not find this new thing in the exam hall, okay? The value of certificates are very much important in our life, PSC or truth, okay? Then comes next. Someone was asking when the exam will take place. Look, the courses we give are of three types, one is of 4 weeks, one is of 8 weeks and 12 weeks. So, what we do is, we divide the course of 4 weeks and 8 weeks into 2 sets. So, the first set is, first set of 4 weeks or first set of 8 weeks, and the course of 12 weeks, which we have actually started from 24th July. And the rest of the 4 weeks, the second set of 8 weeks, start from 21st August. Now, the first set of 4 weeks and 8 weeks, their exam will be 24th September. And the rest of the course, 12 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, the second set of 4 weeks, 8 weeks, the course of 12 weeks will be your exam of 28th or 29th October. Okay. Now, there are a lot of questions about enrollment. Let's see one more time. Smart watch allowed in the exam? No. Currently, we are not even allowing any watch in the exam hall. It's not only NPTEL. If you give any national level exam, you won't permit any watch. Okay. How much the NPTEL will help you in a career and all? We'll explain this. Please wait for a while. How much cost fee is required for the exam? I think, sir, you are not listening carefully. I have clearly said that the fee of the exam is 1000 rupees. I have said that many times. Okay. Then, thanks, Mr. Sarakumar. You are actually enjoying the session. That's very good. Okay. The exam taken by you, which mode I can apply, sir? The exam taken by you, which mode I can apply, which mode I am not very sure what I want to say. The registration form is for the exam. You have to fill up the registration form. The exam that I have said, it can be online or offline. If the voice is not coming, the problem may be at your end. Okay. This is almost an hour program. We will go according to that. Because there are a lot of questions, so if we answer them according to this, then naturally, there will be a little delay. Okay. The course that started on July 24th, was the last date of enrollment on July 31st. Okay. Mr. Vijay Kumar, I have already said that the fee of the exam is 1000 rupees. Before writing the question, first pay attention to what we are saying. You are not paying attention to what we are saying. Then, you keep asking. Okay. To give the fee of the exam, you have to fill up the online form immediately. When we will tell you about the fee of the exam, where you have to enroll, you have to wait for the question. Then, we will answer the same question, which is actually the part that we have discussed. Okay. And Mr. Sahil, I am telling you that how it is useful. You have to wait till the end. Okay. Once a baby is born, you cannot tell whether a baby will be a scientist or what he will be. So, until and unless you listen to the whole program, how can I tell you how it will be useful. So, you have to keep patience on that. Okay. So, the timeline was July 24th. The online course that is starting at the end, everything will be told. You can take the water bottle, but we will tell you when the time comes. So, the course that is starting from July 24th, their enrollment was supposed to be closed on July 31st, but we have extended it to August 7th. So, if we have to close the enrollment on August 7th, almost 601 courses are open. So, if you do not enroll immediately, then you should enroll immediately. Now, as soon as you enroll, then you have to do the exam registration. Exam registration, the July session is open. You have to enroll from July 20th to June 20th. And it will be closed. For the first set of course, that is, the first set of four weeks, first set of eight weeks, and all 12-week course, the exam registration will be closed on the 14th of August. So, according to that, you will do the exam registration. Where will you do it? And the rest of the course, the exam will be on the 28th or 29th, and the exam registration will be closed on the 11th of September. That is, the second set of four weeks and the second set of eight weeks, the exam registration will be closed on the 11th of September. This is asking once a question, sir, to give Rs. 150 per exam fee. No, it is Rs. 1000 exam fee. If you are SCST or physically disabled with 40% disability, then you will have to pay Rs. 500. Otherwise, Rs. 1000 for everyone. I have just told you that the enrollment for 601 MPTL courses will start on the 7th of August. I think the students who are attending this, they are not at all listening to what I am saying and asking the same question. So, I will avoid that question. I think I have talked at least 10 times. If you have not listened to that, please request your other students. Sir, I think we could take these questions at the end. We could continue with this. Students, please ask the questions at the end so that we could at least hear what sir is saying and then we can collectively ask the questions. Yes, because they are not listening to that and asking the same questions repeatedly by the same many people. Okay. Yeah, I could see that. Now, let us see the students. You want to join into eight courses. Look at the list of courses here. If you do not know which course is closed on the 601, which is the discipline course. Suppose you want to do BCA, you are interested in computer science. Okay. Which courses are available for computer science? So, look at this excel sheet carefully. In this, look at the list of all courses. Civil engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, electrical, electronic, all the courses. Now, from where is this course? I mean, what is the discipline course? What is the name of the course? What faculty are coming? What is the IIT? How many days is this course? Four weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks course? This is a new course. I mean, this is being offered for the first time. And this course has been offered before, but it is being repeated. It is being repeated. So, we call this a re-run. So, what type of course is this? When will the important dates start? When is the enrollment opening? When are the courses starting? When are the enrollment closing? When is the exam registration closing? All the dates have been given here. Not only that, you will also find out that this course is for undergraduate studies and for postgraduate studies. I mean, is it for B Tech or M Tech? And is this course a core course or an elective course? If a course is offered for faculty, faculty development courses, then it is also written. And what we will tell you a little later is your domain certificate. If a course is applicable for the domain, then what domain is applicable? The link of the course joining is given in a single sheet. If you are interested, download it. Select a course. If you select a course that is in re-run, which means a course is not given for the first time, it has been given before. So, what can you do in this? You can go to nptl.sc.in. What will you do after that? Nptl, which is this program, see from here. I can search the course name. Suppose I want to take a course for Cloud Computing. So, Cloud Computing course is open for enrollment. So, what can we see in this page? There is a re-run course in this. We can see the video from earlier. If we decide in June that we will take a re-run course in July next semester, whose video is already available, then we do not have to wait till July. What will we do? We will start reading from June. What do we need to read now? We have to submit a weekly assignment. What type of assignment will it be? That is the question. So, what can you do? Come here and see the download section. See, the video is available here. You can see the weekly lecture. After the weekly lecture, where will you get the transcript? How will you get the translation of the regional language? Everything is written here. Now, watch the video from here. After that, if you think that we will do this. The assignment that was offered at the time of the previous lecture, we will make some sense of that. Go to the download section and click on the assignment. Here, you can see a copy of the previous assignment issue. But we have to keep in mind that this assignment is to show you a sample. It was an original assignment, but it is still a sample. Because this time, the assignment will not be A-A assignment. The assignment will be completely changed in that assignment. Okay? Do you understand? So, this is just an idea for you. If you want to see what type of assignment was on week 2, download it. See, in week 2, Cloud Computing was a type of assignment. You will get an idea. Okay. After seeing all this, you have to enroll. How will you enroll? Go to swam.gov.info. You will go here. See, first click on it. Say, suppose we have to enroll in the Cloud Computing course. Say. Okay. If you know the course, then write it here. Otherwise, what will we do? We will click on all courses. Then here, whatever course is open in Swam Portal right now, whether it is NPTEL, CEC, UGC, all the courses are listed here. But if you want to take NPTEL course, then filter it here. NPTEL, select the course duration. Suppose you want to take a course for a week, then select it. If you are studying B.C.A., then you might be interested. In computer science, then select engineering and technology. Then select computer science. So, here you are. In this semester, whatever course of 12 weeks is coming in NPTEL, the list of all the courses of computer science is published here. Okay. See, which course comes in your choice. Say, Cyber Security Privacy. Say, Deplanning. If I have this interest, interest, then we will join this course. What will we do? See, it is written in it. It is a course of 12 weeks. It has started from July 24th. The enrollment will be over on August 7th. It is the 28th of October. So, we will click on this course. Then it will take me to the next page, where I will be having more details about this course. See, already more than 11,000 students have enrolled in this course. There are details about the course. On the right side, it is also written. This is a course of computer science. It is a course of artificial intelligence domain. Data science, robotics-related course. It will be given three credits. It is an important date. And if we take a faculty course, then it will be given a certificate for a FTP course. Okay. I have given the syllabus of the course. What kind of books to be referred to. It has to be given to the faculty. Everything is given. After that, we have to speak to join button. We will take this to the joining page. For joining, we have multiple options. But we will prefer, if I have an email ID from Google, then we will use the Gmail ID. Then I can select my Gmail account. Click on to the Google. Select my Gmail account. Then we will directly take some data from Gmail. And we have to select some data. Okay, we have taken some data. Now we have to select age group. Now select your age group. Male or female. Where does the country live? What is your pin code? According to that, we will select state or city or district. Then what are you, your profession? If you are a student, select student. If you are a faculty, select faculty. Then what is the highest qualification? What is your highest qualification? If you have come to study BCA, then your natural highest qualification is 10 plus 2. And P University. Select that. Which year will you graduate from? If you have given a timeline of 2030, then according to that, you have just joined. You will graduate from 2026. Select that one. Then comes ABCID. ABCID, if you take a coordinated course, then you will have to select ABCID. You have to create the ABCID through your DG locker. Okay. Otherwise, we will see your email ID in NPTEL. Part of SORAM Local Chapter. If you are a faculty or student, naturally your college can be related to NPTEL. So write that your college is a part of NPTEL or not. A college is CIMH. This is a college local chapter. So select yes. Then what state is it? We select Pihar. Then choose a college. Here I can write CIMH. I got the name of this college. CIMH Professional College. Give me your roll number. What degree are you pursuing? Select a department. We have given some selected departments here, which are common in the entire institute. Okay. So according to what department you think is your close. Okay. So select the department. Then you select your study year. Which year are you studying? First year, second year, third year. Click on A2 checkbox. Then join the course. As soon as you join, one course has already started. So I should be able to see first two weeks' content. They are students. You really need to know one thing. You don't get a job like this. What you study in college, is to study in college. And what you ask for in the industry, the kind of skillset that you ask for, that is a little different. Because in the industry, the latest trend in the industry, the industry works accordingly. So if you study here, you will get a job. You will get a job. But if something has changed in the industry, in the technology, then you will have to study yourself. There will be no teacher for you who will teach you that subject. So this will be your headache. If you want to save your job, then you have to study yourself. When you are studying in college, the teacher is teaching you everything. But how many days will it take? Three, four years. After that, you will have to stand on your own feet. You will have to stand on your own feet. So if you think about values, then this is the time that you have to show that you can do it yourself. Not that you will be able to do it if you put a spoon in it. So in one word, my answer will be, what is the value of a degree for you? Okay, this is not a degree. First of all, it is a force. The level in which the industry is changing, there is no such frequency change. So you really need to learn on your own. If you do not study, then why will you give us a job? If you have 100 children in your class in college, everyone has studied the same type. But why will the employer take you? Why won't the other one take you? You will take only then when you see that the requirement you can do more than the requirement you can do it yourself. So according to that, you will get a job. And to get a job, not only if you ask same questions time and again, that indicates that you are not serious. The employer will only see how serious you are. The attitude that itself will tell how serious you are. You really need to know how far you have to speak, what is your body language, how is the communication skill, writing skill, resume, how many things are there to get a job. And all this is not essential in a college that you will study. You have to learn from somewhere okay. Now, suppose I have joined the course course. What is there in the course page? First of all, if you are the first time to help you, you have got a few videos. How does an NPTEL online course work? You can watch this video. Okay. Then your courses have already come in the second week. So if you go in the first week, because you have to study from the first week, you have already given some videos. A small video. Now, if we click on a video, then the video will open here. Along with this, you will also get a text transcript. Meaning, if you have a little problem in following English, then you also have a text transcript. So you can watch accordingly. Then what else is there? As you have studied in the weekly structure, then you have to ask the questions. Okay. Click here. Click on the Ask Questions button. Then, there is a wave forum here, where all the students who have enrolled in one course ask questions. Now also ask questions here. And the other students who have asked questions, the teacher has responded. Look at the response. Then you will have many doubts. What else is there? In the second quadrant, we have a video. In the second quadrant, we have asked you for doubt clearing. In the third quadrant, you have supplementary study material. In the fourth quadrant, you have assignment. If you click on the assignment, then the assignment is given that week. In this, you have given questions. You have also given a timeline. You will be able to see the score of that score. Okay. Okay. All these questions. During course run time, you have to do activity. You have to read the video weekly. If you have any questions, then ask the questions. Submit assignments. Submit assignments and deadlines. After that, you have to see your progress. Assignment 1, assignment 2. If I submit it, I should immediately see the result. No. Until that assignment submission deadline is closed, you cannot see the result. But in the time of 10 days, if you submit it once, if you make a mistake, then you can submit it again. The last submission is for counting 100 marks. Okay. Exam registration. There was a lot of questions. In enrollment, the weekly video you read from here, for exam form, for exam registration, you will be given a separate exam form. You will be given the link of the exam form. From where you will register for which course, you have to register from here. Okay. That means whichever the course is, I have enrolled into the exam form. I have to say July to December 2023 exam form. I have to select the relevant information and select the course that I want to write the exam. Pay the exam fee of 1000 rupees if I am a general candidate. If I belong to SCST or I am physically disabled in that case and medical documents I will be able to get fee waiver of 500 rupees. That means those candidates who are from SCST and medically say disabled with 40% or more disability, they will pay 500 rupees and other candidates will pay 1000 rupees irrespective of whether the course is of 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks and registered for the exam from this portal. The things you have to select here, courses that you want to write the exam then city, you will be given 3 choices. You have to select 3 choices. The city choices not center choices. 3 cities you have to choose okay and pay the examination fee. Okay. Once you complete the exam registration, you will be issued with the hall tickets with the exam say center details and on the exam date of exam you have to vote at the designated exam center with your valid government issued identity card. Okay. Fee is 1000 rupees for SCST and physically disabled candidates with more than 40% disability fee is 500 rupees. Examination registration is through this portal course enrollment is through Swam portal. Okay. Now statistics. We have developed the course from 3000 courses but we have offered some of these courses in a rerun mode. Okay. 5372 courses we have offered. More than 2.3 crores learners have enrolled for learning purposes. Exam registration 28.6 lakhs learners which is more than 10% learners have actually registered for the exam and 18.8 lakhs students or learners have got certificates. In this semester we are offering around 690 courses. Of these 601 courses enrollment closed on 7th of August. If you are planning to take the course without any further delay we have offered only 3 courses in 2014. Approximately 1 lakh students enrolled and 3000 exam registration but this time if you see that sorry last year we have given more than 12 courses in that semester now you can see that over 40 lakhs students learners enrolled into these courses and more than 7.58 lakhs registered for the exam and last semester if you see in January 2020 we have given more than 24 lakhs people enrolled into the course for learning and more than 5 lakhs people registered for the examination we give courses in computer science where there are more popular courses we give courses on all the engineering branches and this is not limited to engineering branch and the level is not given only for undergraduate or post graduate courses. We also give the required courses for the PhDs if you see we are offering the courses from complete spectrum of engineering that is whether it is mechanical, computer science, electrical, electronics biotechnology, chemical metallurgy any engineering branch you tell we are offering the courses from all these discipline as well as we are offering the courses in large number from humanities, social science management, basic sciences like physics, chemistry, mathematics and all these areas. Exam registration to percentage all the students enrolled in the exam 90% of them they come for writing the exam in the examination hall what is the percentage it is around 70% people pass the exam if someone is seriously solving the problems of weekly assignment from others but they have understood the concept and solve the problems themselves then there is no reason why the student should fail because the final exam will be pattern will be similar to the assignment only thing in your you have got your assignments which will carry 25% marks find the final exam but we are not seeing that you are doing it yourself no one has done it for you so according to this, the final exam will be some assignment type questions which will test whether you have read yourself there will be some numerical problems but you should understand that the questions in the assignment will not be in the final exam it may be similar but it will not be exactly same so until and unless you understand the assignment question yourself, if you expect that final exam may be the same question we will mark it it will not be like that in that case we will find that many of the student who thought the final exam P assignment question will come they have done bad in the final exam and they did not get a certificate so please be careful that you have to understand the concept and solve the problems on yourself if you look at the gender the gender is 60 to 40 which is very healthy now a lot of questions what is the benefit now for any job what can you do after your degree one can be you will be looking for a job you will not be looking for a degree certificate you will not be looking for a CGPA they will ask you they will ask you for a fundamental concept and for a fundamental concept it is not just attended in the class it is not that much for this you refer to the book you go to the library so you can also refer to these courses NPTEL courses the best faculty of IIT in the country they have done that course so they talk about fundamental concept so if you are aware of that fundamental concept then only you will be able to satisfy the interviewer so this is a benefit and do you understand what data analytics artificial intelligence machine learning but in many colleges many of these topics are not taught but for job interview they cannot say that I don't have any syllabus I don't know I don't have a teacher this becomes your responsibility where the government has made such a big facility who has stopped you to learn the things on your own from these portals so if you are looking for your career it is your career you have to take the pain go to the portals where similar things are available they talk about technology they teach take the help of that learn it and equip yourself with two skills which are required by the industry okay you understand that today industry 4.0 is called industry 4.0 because of manufacturing sector or IT sector continuously changing the system maybe after 2-3 years there is a continuous need to update yourself and which platform will give you the update NPTEL can help you they are offering latest technology courses learn it from here and in the job interview your body language how you express yourself your skills in communication that is your verbal skill communication you should know what are your shortcomings how to overcome that how to answer to the common questions of the HR all this is important and generally your college syllabus does not exist most many colleges from the cities they bring the soft skill expert to train the people but it may not be the case with all colleges so we are offering new courses from the soft skill language skill how to improve your confidence to face the interviews then we are offering the certificates from IIT which are quite valuable if you show to the outside world see we have a course from IIT Python course IIT IIT is a team course that itself will tell that you have got good knowledge about that course and you should be seen differently from your fellow mates who might have not done this course this improves your job opportunities credit transfer many colleges and universities are taking these courses for credit transfer okay then you can also get honors degree or minor degree for BTEC courses many of the universities have adopted this what is called regulation of EICT that if they complete say 20 credits they can earn a BTEC honors in place of BTEC degree then if you are planning to write a great examination you definitely need to know these exams are conducted by IIT if you just see the IIT JEE advanced or JEE exams they are not very easy possibly you will appreciate that JEE exams are not very easy and if the similar people those who are setting the papers of JEE advanced if they set up your great examination papers you can just imagine that if you just study one or two books which are prescribed as part of your regular curriculum that may not be adequate to crack great examination because on cracking your great examination you will be getting say opportunity to study in the higher educational institute with scholarship also if you want to get a job in the public sector you have to score very well in the great examination and great exam will seriously test your fundamentals fundamental concept since many of the faculty members have the same type of faculty who were exam paper setters in IIT so if they give the same faculty the course will naturally develop that course and if you study those courses it will help you not only in clearing your great examination but it will also help you in getting a better job opportunity then if you are a faculty then definitely you can do some courses from here which are marked for the faculty development program and earn your required credit points if you are in the industry because of the rapid changes taking place in the industry there is an art and need that every after four or five years one has to learn newer things so this gives an opportunity the NPTEL courses gives an opportunity for the learners in re-skilling or up-skilling otherwise for them it is difficult to save a job it is difficult reason for taking the course reason for taking the course is many people will take the course for credit some people will take these courses for say re-skilling or up-skilling or getting preparing better for the job opportunities ok there are other people who are taking these courses for the research activity if you look at 20-20 courses which have a lot of enrollment now see the type of job opportunity for that type of course there is a lot of interest and how many people have enrolled in a semester like Java, Python, cloud computing data science artificial intelligence, machine learning internet of things for this type of course since the current job market is going on this type of course has a lot of interest and you have joined and that number is in front of you you can get into it without this see one course soft skill and personality this type of course is also very popular because it gives confidence how to face the interview we will leave this what we have told you that if you enrolled in a course then you can ask the faculty on this session but without that you the live session of youtube you can also ask questions without this we have told that we engage the research scholars who help you on problem solving okay for that every week we are conducting live session through PMRF scholars this type of information we give them a single point of contact which day which program's live session is there please join that so that if you have got any doubt related to your course you can get your clarified okay this recorded version is also available the days you can see friday, saturday, sunday, monday, twuesday these 5 days we are conducting a session at this time in front of you on the screen please try to attend to these sessions the sessions they say it was very good it was very informative they taught a lot how to solve problems so these are beneficial by the students what we are not saying these are said by many of the students after this we have domain scholars how many courses you have what type of course according to that we call some students NPTEL stars we will talk more about NPTEL domain scholars in the next slide but if you have taken 4 to 6 courses in one semester and 3 of them are topper then we will call you NPTEL superstars if you have attained in 4 or 8 semesters in your 18 exams and you have completed 2 third of the exams successfully we call it EVANGERIES similarly motivated learner and enthusiast where you have appeared in 8 courses in 4 semesters and in 75% course in 75% course you have passed you should be continuously motivated we don't see continuity in enthusiast but criteria remains same discipline star if you have completed 50 weeks of learning then we call it discipline star and who is the believer we say you have passed 6 to 6 exams and atleast present in 4 to 6 exams you have completed 4 exams then you call it NPTEL star but the important job is domain scholar what is this if you go to your job market you will see that you are interested in data science so in data science if you want to be a specialized expert then you have to take some courses then you will give an example of this NPTEL domain scholar we have given an example of data science but if you are interested in other things and you want to be an expert in that area then what type of course you have to take they actually tell you domain scholar the reason for this is you are given a particular area which will help you to get higher education among these some courses are on domain scholar some courses are core course some are elective course and total duration is also told that how much learning should be suppose you want to take some course of computer science in computer science artificial intelligence, data science programming, foundation of computing computing and systems of domains if you want to be an expert of artificial intelligence then you have to do 60 weeks of learning how many courses you have to take 4 core courses which courses are written which courses are offered and 2 elective courses if you take 4-6 courses within a period of 3 years within a period of 3 years if you complete 4 core courses or 2 elective courses with an average score average score is 60 marks and individual core marks by course marks not less than 55 then you will get domain certificate if you get your domain certificate then your picture the photograph will be displayed here now we will talk about the course why should I do that there are faculty members who have become domain scholars there are students they are employed professionals from different sectors you will find many people are doing this because they feel that until now you have done expertise on a particular area job market is very very competitive now working a job is not that easy so you really need to take some extra step to learn the things on your own out of 12 disciplines there are 12 disciplines we have created 51 domains and this is sample domain certificate where you will get a photo which domain you have done which course you have done all details are given here this is not done domain certificate high 71 scholars have completed 1 domain there are 32 scholars who have completed 2 domains and there are 4 scholars who have completed 3 domains popular courses are for industry they are of this type you can see we were talking about data science, machine learning there are more demand for this type of courses without this technical vehicles design thinking, blockchain cyber security this type of course is very popular for industry if you look at the initiative the college for that AICT and UGC have already approved the structure 20 to 40% credits can be taken from the in a semester 20 to 40% can be taken by itself this is a guideline but the responsibility to approve it is for university and autonomous college what they do they first approve that we will do the credit from the course which courses we will take we will make a list and what will be the equivalent credit you have seen in the course all the courses are written here NPTL recognizes that 30 hour course is equivalent to 3 credit 2 credit is given to 20 hour courses and 10 hour courses will carry 1 credit but we will take this 3, 2, 1 or 4, 3, 2 we will enhance it depends on the resolution of the academic council of the university and okay we have signed the MOU with AICT so that some courses in NPTL if they do faculty course then they get a FDP certificate for this which course I have shown in excel sheet and if we go to the course page we will get a summary section which course is chosen for FDP this type of sample is in front of you 4 weeks course is equivalent to half FDP of 1 week 8 week course is equivalent to full FDP of 1 week and 12 week courses are equivalent to 1 and half FDP faculty how many faculty do you take or definitely more than 70% the learners are students for them the higher studies are important if you want to start your own say company then you really need to know how to get the funding how to create a project proposal how to manage the supply chain for this the conventional B.I.B. Tech is not taught but we are offering you a lot of courses from the entrepreneurship how to start all these activities so 70% students are faculty members and remaining people come from the industry those who are already in the industry so you can see 70% people 17 to 22% people are from the faculty who are taking these courses now the single point of contact he or she is the ambassador of NPTEL in local chapter colleges that means they take the inputs from the and pass it on to the college administration and the students so that they can take the benefit of these courses to help them in their career perspective what we do we provide some financial support to the faculties if any of their papers have been accepted in a conference which is conducted in IITs or NITs in that case if your paper is accepted you can apply for say reimbursement to the extent of 25,000 what are the things will be reimbursed your registration fee your travel expenses and your accommodation related expenses can be reimbursed for this every month first 10 days there is a window in which you have to apply with all documents and if you satisfy all the criteria we will approve it and on completion of the program you have to submit all the bills and vouchers in the reimbursement in case you are not availing availing the benefit but any of your faculty who is taking interest in NPTEL activities is interested to take this benefit yes you can actually ask him or her to take apply for this and take benefit GATE exam is not only for getting admission in the higher academic institutions with scholarship but also if you want to get opportunity in the public sector undertakings in that case it is absolutely essential that you have to do very well in your GATE examination for that your foundation should always be solid for this you can use NPTEL course but in NPTEL we have said that there are more than 3000 courses which course we will refer for which we will show you the syllabus mapping after that before any exam we solve the old question paper so in NPTEL the old GATE paper is given to the solution in the video if you do not know the video solution then you can refer to the video solution before any exam we will give mock test on full syllabus so that this gives me a confidence that we are prepared so the online assessment platform is also here where we can take mock test and if my doubt is NPTEL is there here we will be providing you support to clear your doubts through PhD scholars so that is the discipline where we are mapping GATE that is to me NPTEL Plus is a platform where you can take courses among them there are many courses which are NPTEL which are IIT faculty IIT syllabus and as per the university syllabus we have offered a course that type of course is available on NPTEL and NPTEL course is available on January and July never available in between in the industry we feel that at any time I want to do python course so for that I cannot wait till next January after 7th July the enrollment will close so I have to wait till 7th July sorry so if I do not have the time then to help those students who are from primarily from the industry sectors we are offering certain courses which are not only NPTEL courses which are offered by IIT faculties but also courses created by the industry experts that means they will not be on a specific syllabus not following 10 hours, 20 hours 30 hours structure but it can be on a very special topic or maybe on a particular language on a particular system they will be giving lot of exposure they will be short or long term training also so these courses are not definitely not free you cannot access the contents freely suppose you want to do the python course here here it will take 3 months time but if you feel that okay I want to complete this course within a month time then come to NPTEL paste that in fees get access to the contents solve all the assignments every week exam is conducted write the exam and complete the course course within one month time okay this is what NPTEL class is then comes internship if you were if a student is proper in a course in that case you know the internship is extremely important for a career in the engineering sector okay so where do you get internship it's very difficult to get the internship but NPTEL offers internship opportunity if you are a court stopper if you are a court stopper will ask you if the faculty is ready to help take the intern in that case will ask your willingness if you are interested you submit certain documents like your resume the statement of purpose that is what you intend to do during the say internship period and what is your what's called your last two semesters based on these documents the faculty will be selecting a group of students who will be same to that particular IIT say you have taken a course from IIT Kanpur so you will be going to IIT Kanpur staying in IIT maybe in a hostel for some other accommodation and working under the same faculty for one to three months duration okay one competition of that you will be getting a certificate from IIT on internship completion as well as to recover your expenses that you have made that you have paid to IIT hostels and all will be giving you some financial support also on completion of your internship what is that amount it will be the extent of 5000 rupees per four weeks of training okay if it is six weeks that means you will be getting 7500 rupees and so on Texas Instruments is a leading giant say primarily in the IC chip manufacturing so they are also offering internship or maybe a full-time position to the students who are topper in certain courses if the complete certain courses within a predefined timeline say four semester or six semester then they are eligible for an internship the course list is either basic electrical circuits and analog circuits or analog IC design along with that you have to complete certain other courses like circuit analysis for analog designers introduction to time-bearing electrical networks and so on if you complete these courses within four to six semester then you are eligible for an interview with TI for an internship or a full-time position okay additionally it's as I said time and again that it's not only that if you are from computer science and if you know computer science subjects you are going to get a job at least 50% weight is given to the soft skill because once you join in the industry you will not be working alone you will be working in a group definitely it's important that the group may consist of people from different races from different social economical background it is absolutely essential that you should be able to mix with them and be flexible to add up to respect others views and all so soft skill is extremely important for you so not only that once you want to apply for an interview you need to know how to prepare a resume good resume how to actually develop that one then how to search different portals to get a job okay important to know what are your shortcomings your communication skill your other skill what are the shortcomings and how to improve on that so what NPTEL does if you have done an NPTEL course and if your college is interested to organize the soft skill training that you can write back to us we organize soft skill training for two durations one is for one week another is for two weeks during which the students will be given employability undergoing assessment days there will be online interactive session where the experts will tell them what are their shortcomings and how to improve on that there will be English speaking English language days online mock interviews where they will be told that what are the common question and how to respond to that language how to prepare the presentation and all everything will be taught during this period so it's not only that okay you will be given a lecture you will also be given take home assignment and it is essential that if you want to get a certificate at least 80% percentage attendance is mandatory so this is extremely important for getting a job it's not only you do the course and do well in the course until now unless you have good soft skill you are not likely to be considered for the job that is a general perception the people those who have undergone the training they have given us some feedback and some of these feedbacks are before you I am not going to read it out if you visit our any of our social media platforms you will be coming across many such feedbacks which has come from the different learners now we are trying what we are saying that okay after you do a course we want to see that you get a better placement opportunity and for that we really need to know how the industry thinks about this what trend is there in the industry what type of courses we should offer so we definitely find that at least 6 to 8% or at least 5 to 6% of the learners are actually from the industry who are taking these courses for re-skilling or upskilling they know that they need to learn something new and they are taking these courses so we are taking the input of the industry bodies in framing our core structure sometimes the faculty members or the experts from the industry join hands with NPTEL to offer certain courses join before offering the courses also they offer certain lectures okay not only the trend that goes in the industry but how the students should actually develop themselves for the better say competitive career how to develop their leadership skills all these things are done by the industry associate so we are in touch with or like local chapters different colleges we are connected with we are also connected with different industry bodies whether they are in government sector or private sector say whether they are in IT sector electronic semiconductor industry consumer electronics power transmission generation research and development telecom network anywhere we are in touch with more than 80 companies both from government and private to take their inputs to train their manpower so people those are asking the if you feel that okay these people these 80-85 industries are actually taking these courses for the benefit of their learners then you can definitely feel that okay what is the use of these courses even for the people those who are in the industry not getting trying to get a job but even for the who are in the industry so these are the people say industry experts who have given some life session you can you know the names of these people they are very big names as far as the job market is concerned whether it's Capgemini Mahindra Infosys all these they are big names and they are offering they are associated with us to provide different inputs additionally you know there is a provision that there are some students from a local chapter college who are meritorious okay who have got interest to learn but they cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees in that case if the college is from TR to TR3 cities in that case the college can check the say financial background and send the recommendation to NPTEL saying that these students cannot afford to pay the 1000 rupees fee and if NPTEL can support that so in that case based on the recommendation and based on the fund that we have received in this regard from the industry and certain individuals we provide free waivers that is initially the students will be paying 1000 rupees and registering for the exam but if they successfully complete the course we will be refunding their 50% fee that is they will be paying 1000 rupees for registration but if they are successful in that case they are 50% fee or 500 rupees will be refunded whose 500 rupees will be refunded if these students name only for those students who are considered economically weak and whose names have been forwarded by the academic institution to NPTEL and NPTEL has approved it only for them 500 rupees will be refunded later translation I have shown you that English transcript is available but we have got transcript in multiple other languages and NPTEL doesn't have expertise on different languages say if this course has to be converted into Hindi yes we do not have too many people who will be converting this language into these courses into Hindi so what we do we depend on the faculty members of local chapter colleges who help us who takes the English text from here and converted into Hindi Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam Orya, Bengali Assamese different languages ok so if any of the faculty members if you know the subject and if you have got good grasp of the local language then you can definitely join hand with NPTEL to take up this translation activity for which you get a recognition that your name will be printed on the booklet as well as you will be getting certain demuneration this is the languages we are working on for converting the videos into different texts ok NPTEL is connected to the say learners to different social media handles like LinkedIn, Instagram Facebook, Twitter and YouTube you can see the followers you can follow up our channels and you will get regular updates what all activities goes on in the NPTEL front if you are an NPTEL star that we talked about if you are a star you also get the type of t-shirts that is shown here you get that one and you can proudly show to your friends that you have done something which was not compelled to you to do but you have learned the things from IITs and done very well ok so this is a proud moment for you we are also conducting one week duration lab workshops in different institutions in which the 35 to 40 students group will be going to the institute and taking part in say morning and afternoon session where they will be undergoing theoretical session as well as conducting certain experiments every day and on the last day they will be taking up final examination at the end they get a certificate but for these they have to pay 200 rupees to NPTEL and we are the accommodation the utility expenses in the institute wherever they are local chapter I am not going to go in much detail if someone wants to become a local chapter there is no requirement of any specific building a required chart or a particular room only interest to become a local chapter is what is required you submit a form signed by the head of the institution and this comes with a lot of benefits first as soon as you become a local chapter a separate dedicated page of local chapter is created in the NPTEL portal so all activities related to that local chapter will be reflected there all NPTEL activities then whatever courses we are creating if you want that okay you should copy this content the videos and keep it in your library then we can send a heart this and get it copied free of cost as we said in the last this one that you can ask for the fee waiver for your needy students if you want to help the students of your college you can possibly identify some faculty members who will be joining into the course and acting as a mentor for the students and they will also be getting a recognition if the students do well in the certification exam if there are say local chapters in a very far area where there is no NPTEL local chapter and there are about 200 students who wants to write the exam in that case if you write to us we will try to provide a local examination center so although there is no financial dealings between NPTEL and the local chapter but the local chapter on becoming a local chapter the college gets lot of benefits and based on the performance of the students the college gets a recognition as well as the faculty also gets a mentorship recognition local chapters are spread across the country you can see we are available in the length and breadth of the country not only that our wings are spread across the boundary of India also there are about 48 local chapters outside India and local chapter participation has been continuously growing in the last year last July 2022 semester we had about 90% enrollment from the local chapter colleges once a local chapter has got 25 people registering for the examination and are physically present for the exam and out of that 13 people have actually successfully complicated the examination or got the certificate then only the first recognition comes in the form of an active local chapter that is first a college becomes a local chapter and next time if there are 25 candidates who are writing the exam and if at least 13 of them gets a certificate then the college gets a recognition of active local chapter for the first new local chapters our solution is that first maybe you can ask the students to take courses from the soft skill or English skill so that they are aware how the program whole program runs then slowly expose them in the programming courses skill based courses and definitely encourage them to take certain courses from the domain particularly they can complete within a period of say two or three semester one particular domain that will be really helpful they can also be say advice to explore the gate examination portal which will help them to get deeper understanding of the courses all rerun courses are to be taken initially so that they get access to the videos as well as one set of sample assignment much before the course start date appointing a faculty to act as a mentor will definitely help the learners and help you have the dedicated time slot for the NPTEL courses and do not keep any college activity around the NPTEL exam time a faculty if they become a mentor then based on the performance of the student they get a mentor certificate okay they should get 10 mentorship point this is linked to the students score say if it is between say 60 to 74 then 5 point is so if there are two students who have been mentored and each got 60 to 75 marks then two students will fetch the mentor and certificate with this I will stop if there are any question possibly I can take that one over to other spot the students if they if you have got any doubt you can now post that is yes madam if you have got any question if you have noted which has not been addressed we can take it away so is my voice audible yes yeah I think if they have questions I will post it to you because these students I don't think they have questions I think all the questions have been resolved so if they still have questions I will post it back to you sure yeah so in that case we can wrap up the session now yes yes yes sir yes sir we can wind up sir sure okay