Good morning, one and all. Let us begin the session according to the agenda. Now it's the moment of introduction about the workshop by the SPOC. I am Dr. Yu Bhuminajan, SPOC of St. Joseph College, Kovar, Chennai. I warm welcome to one and all who are interested in participating in the NPTLE workshop programs. I real thank NPTLE local chapter team IIT Madras who has readily accepted to the conduct this even when we approach them. It is our great pleasure to coordinating this program in association with the NPTLE local chapter. Our college is established in Sohyam NPTLE local chapter in the year 2022. The main aim of registering ourselves in NPTLE local chapter is to be in fight quality education to the student community and make them to under the umbrella of NPTLE so that they could acquire tube knowledge about various courses, get better placement in industry and the reputed companies. Moreover, the course content of topic NPTLE are highly useful for the teacher community and help the teacher to improve the quality of students. In addition, the course materials that are available in both the web and video are freely accessible by everyone independent of their geographically locations. Today, we are organizing the E workshop in association with NPTLE local chapter to create maximum awareness among faculty members and students to enrol themselves in the forthcoming NPTLE course. I once again welcome you all for this NPTLE awareness E workshop. Thank you ma'am. Yes sir. Thank you sir. Sir Bhuminathan sir please turn on your camera sir. Ma'am can I invite our chief guest ma'am? Yes sir sir. I would like to invite the guest speaker Dr. R. Ruben, principal of Sajid's College, Arts and Sciences Co-Wol Chennai to speak about the event for some keywords. Happy morning to one and all. I am Dr. R. Ruben, principal of Sajid's College, Arts and Sciences Chennai. It is an honor to address you today as the guest speaker at this prestigious national program on Technology Enhanced Learning E workshop organized by the NPTLE local chapter IIT Madras in association with the Sajid's College, Arts and Sciences. This E workshop is organized in view of understanding the remarkable collaboration between the academia and the industry highlighting the importance of continuous learning and innovation if you enrol yourself in the NPTLE. The NPTLE has been playing a pivotal role in transforming the landscape of online education providing accessible and high quality learning opportunities to students across the country. This E workshop offers an unique platform to explore emerging trends, exchanging ideas and enhance our understanding of various subjects. I encourage all the participants to make most of this opportunity by actively engaging in the session interacting with the esteemed faculty and networking with fellow students. This E workshop is not about acquiring knowledge only. It is about nurturing a lifelong passion for learning and staying curious. I ensure that the NPTLE will chisel and shape the attitude and the character of each and everyone. I would also like to extend my gratitude to the organizing committee, faculty members and volunteers who have dedicated their time and effort to make this E workshop a reality. Your commitment and passion for education are truly commendable. I wish all the participants a fruitful and enriching experience throughout this NPTLE E workshop. Thank you. Thank you very much sir. Let me hand over the session to our resource person. Okay. Respected Professor Ruban, the principal, respected Professor Bominathan, the SPOC of the college, other faculty members who are connected to this program through YouTube and my dear students who are connected here. It is a very good opportunity for all of us that the college has come forward to initiate the E workshop, organizing it for the benefit of the learners not only of their college but also colleges who are maybe other learners who are new to this platform. So during the next one-on-one of our journey, we will be taking you through the whole process of NPTLE, how a new learner can join into the program, what are the steps they follow, what are the different initiatives taken by NPTLE for the benefit of the learners and so on. So before to start with let me share my screen and go forward. Okay. This program today we are organizing in association with Saint Joseph's College Arts and Science General and this will be my brief outline of the talk. We'll be giving an introduction of the NPTLE and SWIM, then NPTLE online certification process including the hands-on one we'll be showing, the credit transfer mechanism, different other aspects like domain certification, faculty development program, internship opportunities, soft skill training, GIP, portal, then some data about the local chapters, NPTLE plus a new initiative or the self-paced courses and additionally a new program launched by IIT Madras sometime back is a four years BS degree program. We'll be touching all this which are beneficial for any learners. So NPTLE as it is known that it's an acronym, it is National Program on Technology, Enhanced Learning, a Ministry of Education, Government of India, Funded Project under which IITs and IISCs, primarily seven older IITs and IISCs are taking lead role in offering the courses which are targeted towards the learners. It could be students, faculty or employed professionals from anywhere whoever is interested for their benefit we are offering the courses. Now the journey started in 2003 and we have already completed 20 years of our journey together. This possibly one of the you can say longest period over which a national program is being run by IITs or IISCs or any other institute. Okay so from 2003 to 2014 we were offering the courses into basic formats that is recording the contents from the classroom and making it available for the learners simply recording and making it available. Otherwise that was the video course and another version we had was something like a book format PDF document with a little bit of animations on different subjects. These contents are still available in the NPTLE deposit room you can just look for it. Then from 2014 we started online certification program that is course-based certification program that if anyone is interested they should be able to not only go through the courses but also test their understanding and get a certificate against that which is a tangible output to show to the outside world that okay see I have done this course. Okay so far during this 20 years of our journey we have created about 3000 plus courses. These contents are available for the learners communities across the geographical locations not only within limited within the boundary of India but across the global footprints. We have got about 1.6 billion plus views in our NPTLE contents 4.5 million subscriptions have been reported in our YouTube channel NPTLE HRD. Additionally we are also creating English subtitles for a substantial number of courses which are available and the number stands at about 62,000 hours of videos which has got a subtitle. So although we started with a vision to provide high quality affordable education at large scale in 2003 right now we have extended the horizon to include offering courses which are primarily you can say curriculum based job oriented courses from different regions and also we are promoting the use and adoption of these courses by different universities and autonomous colleges. So this is our basic target. Now say any student may ask that why should I do the course already I am enrolled in a program I am doing my regular curriculum whatever is being offered by the college faculty members as per my degree requirement but then why should I do that. So if you just look at the holistic view take a holistic view after a three or four years studying in a college the student may take three different paths one is that they may go for higher studies which will require them to do well in some national level examination or maybe a state level examination where there will be a lot of requirements on the solid understanding of the fundamentals then is some group of students who might be looking for job opportunities and we always know because of the rapid changes in the technology there is always a gap between what is required by the industry and what is available from the academics what is taught because the teaching in academics is limited by the syllabus whereas industry scenario changes very rapidly because of the emergence of newer technologies. So there is always a gap since NPTEL offered some of the courses from these emerging areas possibly this can fill up the gap between what is needed by the industry and what is not available in the academy. Then comes once you want to go for a job it's not only my domain knowledge that matters almost 50 percent weightage is given to my communication skill how do I present before the interviewer these all concepts are actually part of the soft skill or language skill. So we offer certain courses which will build the improve or build the or improve the confidence of the learners to face the interview in a better way then comes if someone is interested to start the entrepreneurship they really know to know how do I start a business what are the things I need to keep in mind all these things which are not part of the regular curricula NPTEL can provide a very good guidance on that aspect because NPTEL offers a number of courses for the startup what are the issues that needs to be taken into account marketing logistic means complete supply chain mechanism the financials all such courses are available from the NPTEL. So whether you are off you are going for your higher studies packing say examination like gate net whatever it is this gives a an opportunity for you to develop on your fundamentals you can do certain emerging courses from the emerging areas so that you are better equipped to face the interview soft skill and language courses will build up your confidence to face the interview certificates from the IITs IISCs will definitely improve your chances of getting a better internship or job prospect then definitely AICT and MGC the two higher education regulators have mandated in 2016 that the part of this their curriculum that is 20 percent of the course loads in a semester can be taken from swam linked courses and since NPTEL is part of swam so some courses from NPTEL can be taken for credit transfer AICT has additionally mandated like okay if you do 20 extra credits from here you can earn a honors or minor degree so if you are looking for say usually the students from an engineering college they get a BTEC degree but if they do 20 extra credits here they can earn a BTEC honors degree that's how things go as we said earlier that if you have got strong fundamentals then definitely you can do well in the get to press get examination which is the entry criteria for your master's program in engineering colleges not only that you are actually getting an opportunity to join a public sector undertakings because jobs in PSUs are now linked to the get performance then for the faculty members we will be looking for the promotion or career advancement schemes some of the courses of NPTEL are marked as faculty development courses particularly the courses on the elective or on the advanced courses are actually marked as NPTEL courses so they can use it for their career advancement schemes similarly the people those who are in the industry they can use these courses for reskilling or upskilling requirement as you know that because of the changes in the technology rapid changes there is a need to reskill or upskill of the existing employees in an industry after every five years okay now if you say okay we are offering the courses there should be a platform to offer the courses at this point let me tell you the learners who are connected through the youtube as you progress if you have any doubt you are most welcome to post your queries in the google chat your youtube chat boxes so that as we go through the presentation we'll also pick up the questions from you which is posted into the youtube and we'll try to answer to that okay so for offering the courses we need a platform and ministry of education government of india has created a platform called swam study waves of active learning for the young aspiring minds is an umbrella under which different national coordinators have been identified who will be offering the courses targeting a select group of learners if the learners are from the school level then nis ncrt will take care of that if they are out of school children say doing diploma or certification level courses then igloo and nai tpr they are the agencies for the undergraduate and postgraduate level nptl aicp cc udc and iim banglore are the agencies which have been created as national coordinators to take care of the requirement of this group of learners okay so nptl which is mandated to actually offer the courses from the engineering curriculum we are also offering the courses across basic sciences humanities and social sciences management and now we have started developing the courses from law and other multidisciplinary areas okay what started in 2003 as just recording the contents and making it available for the learners community changed the mode into online certification program from 2014 we are offering a books format that is massive open online courses number of learners who are enrolling in a program are not limited by the brick and mortar classroom structure you can have any number of tens or hundreds of thousands of students can actually enroll in a course these contents are open that means anyone who is having an interest can join into the program these are offered in an online mode that means if i have a internet connectivity i will be able to access the contents and the courses are structured exactly in the same way how your regular curriculum based courses are actually offered that means it has started it has a end date it has an existing you can say weekly curriculum like this many hours of video lectures will be provided there will be interaction forum there will be periodic assessment and at the end there will be a certification exam same format what is followed in a brick and mortar classroom that is also followed here and this follows a triple A model that means anyone can take these courses anytime they can do it in a flexible manner and from anywhere we follow a four quadrant approach we will talk little more about this little later in the coming slides the courses are offered during January to April or July to October that is aligning with that January to June and July December semester system of any university system in India now since NPTEL is a coordinator as a national coordinator in SWAM so all our NPTEL courses are actually SWAM courses you can see what are the courses that are forthcoming and the timeline suppose we are right right now beginning of July what are the courses that are available in the July semester as well as say forthcoming semester when it is starting in January 2024 or July 2024 the timelines we can see it from this portal I'll take you through that enrollment starts in May for the July semester and in November for the January semesters okay enrollment in any course is possible irrespective of your current branch of studies that means whether you are studying science, arts, commerce, engineering, anyone who is having interest on a particular subject can join the course irrespective of what he or she is currently pursuing and they can enroll in multiple courses for learning purposes without paying any charges so it's fully funded by the ministry and they can join it free of for learning purpose however if they are looking for a certification then definitely they can write the examination by paying certain fees. Mr. Kamal Neymal is asking that where can I get help sir I would request you to just little elaborate what type of help you are looking for so that it becomes easy for us NPTEL counselor is not very clear to me still NPTEL counselor builds what you want to mean okay is it any course related suggestion or course related support you are looking for or whatever it is if you can elaborate it little better it will be easy for me to respond to that. Now we are saying that okay we are offering the courses during January, July all these things the timelines are available what are the different formats of the courses we offer the courses of three durations that is formats wise it is 10 hours 20 hours and 30 hours that is the total lecture duration and what is the timeline you say that every week we will be offering certain hours of lectures in that case these 10 hours contents will be delivered over a period of four weeks at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture per week that is we say roughly five lectures each of half an hour will be given every week there could be more number of lectures either it could go up to three hours or maybe little less or number of lectures can be individual lectures can be little more with smaller duration. So 10 hour courses are actually completed within a period of four weeks eight weeks courses are of 20 hours duration and the full semester based 30 hour courses are completed within a period of 12 weeks timeline at the rate of 2.5 hours of lecture okay then comes we are offering these courses in a four quadrant approach this is nothing new you as a faculty the instructors in a college they are also offering the courses in a four quadrant approach what we follow that is pre-recorded only thing instead of a regular face to face interaction where you directly deliver the contents to the students we are recording the contents and making it available in a segmented form. So the pre-recorded lecture videos are available as the first quadrant then in a classroom the teacher interacts with the students in a face to face mode they see the students face either they ask the students about what they have understood or the students may interact with the faculty if they have a need out the same thing is also replicated here but just because this is an online course delivery mechanism so definitely face to face interaction cannot be exactly replicated in the same manner what is done in a regular classroom so that interaction takes place through your web based forum that is there is a blog like scenario where the learners after going through the video lectures if they have any doubt they'll be posting their queries in the forum so these forums will be seen and responded by the faculty and the teaching assistants who are associated with the course additionally the faculty will be available for interaction in the same manner what we are doing today that means the faculty will be available at a designated time through youtube live sessions and the learners will be connected to the faculty through youtube so if they have got any doubt they'll be posting their queries in the youtube chat box which will be picked up by the faculty and answered so that is how a periodic interaction through youtube also will be conducted additionally the pmrf scholars will be assisting the students in different problem solving mechanism that means if there are courses which involves your mathematical background strong mathematical background their pmrf scholars will be regularly conducting the sessions on problem solving they'll be discussing on how to solve the different weekly that assignment problems if they have got any other issues those sessions will be conducted by the pmrf scholars additionally the faculty will be giving the supplementary study materials this could be in the form of text transcript of the lectures that is English text transcript or in some cases text transcript in different regional languages okay then if they use any slides that slides will be made available there could be links to free web resources etc these are supplementary study material so I go through the lectures go through the supplementary study materials if I have got any doubt I clarify my doubts through the web based interaction or through the pmrf scholars or periodic interaction through the faculty in a youtube live session then I am given a weekly assignment related to that which content that is after going through the 1 2.5 hours of video I will be solving a set of questions maybe 10 15 20 questions will be given related to that which video and I have to solve those problems this will be just for self-assessment purpose each assignment will be graded out of 100 marks and a part of this will be taken this part of this marks will be taken towards the final certification score because in the final certification we'll see 25% weightage comes from your weekly assignment score so this is very important then I have gone through the course contents I have followed all four quadrants now I am interested for the optional certification exam I want to get a certificate what do you do I have to register separately through a portal NPTEL portal it is not through the swam portal it's a proctored in-person center of this exam that means although I can do the course in a triple a model from anywhere but for writing the examination I have to actually physically go to the exam center with a valid government identity proof and write the exam exam centers are spread across the country more than 200 centers across the country so you don't have to move too far away for writing the exam the exams are conducted on each day in two sessions in the 4 noon between 9 to 12 and afternoon between 2 to 5 mode of examination there are two modes we use online or offline by online means I'll get the questions as well as I have to respond in computer itself the question answers I have to do in computer whereas in an offline mode the questions will be appearing in the terminal computer terminal and I will be given the answer scripts where I have to write it in a conventional pen paper for registering in the examination I have to pay a fee of 1000 rupees per course irrespective of whether it is four weeks eight weeks or 12 weeks duration okay then partial fee waiver is available for SCST candidates and persons with disability with more than 40 percent so the candidates who are from these categories they automatically get 50 percent fee waiver and they pay only 500 rupees per course for the certification there are two categories of courses we say there could be some courses where you have got programming is a programming language course and otherwise it is a non-programming language course most of the courses are non-programming in nature so for that 70 percent of the weightage remains with the final exam and 25 percent weightage comes from the assignment whereas for a programming course like Java, Python, Haskell, C, C++ and all you'll be having a separate programming test which will be conducted in a non-proctored manner before the final examination and in that case final exam will only carry 50 percent weightage 25 percent weightage will be from the regular assignments and remaining 25 percent will go for the proctored non-programming test how do we calculate the assignments code 25 percent assignments code we say that there are say if it is a 12 week course then there are 12 assignments each of 100 marks we understand there could be an issue that okay student may miss one or two assignments because of their other academic commitments for that what we do for a 12 week course we only consider the best eight assignments score what is the score out of 800 take an average score out of 100 and 25 percent of that directly is going to the your certificate whereas for a six week for a eight week course it will be best six assignments score that will be counted for a four week course based three assignments score suppose you have taken an eight week course and you have only submitted four assignments how do we calculate that if you have submitted four assignments now we are only considering out of 600 so four assignments means 400 marks remaining two assignments which we have not submitted or you could not submit will be considered as you have scored zero and the score out of 400 will be considered as score out of 600 and proportionate with your assignment average score will go down only thing the requirement certification criteria says that you should get 40 percent marks in individually between assignment and final certification examinations that means if you're if you have not submitted enough assignments or your assignment score is very low in some cases in that case your 25 percent average assignment score may fall below 10 marks in that case even if you do very well in the certification exam you'll not be eligible to get a certificate because you should get at least 10 out of 25 in the final average 25 percent average assignments score once you write the exam whether it is an online mode or in offline mode then we roughly reserve declare the result within 30 days timeline from the data examination certificates are signed by the institute which is offering the course and they are having a QR code okay someone is asking that C++ course duration and fees sir you have to go through the course brochure where it will be written that whether it is eight weeks or 12 weeks course and the fees as I have said for writing the certification exam it is common that is whether four eight or 12 weeks exam fee remains same. Ritam Sadhna is asking I want to take NPTEL course for credit transfer I'll give outside India exam the last day to register exam is August 18 but I reached Germany September 1. I can't submit residence proof before that maybe I would suggest can you just send a mail to the local chapter or support so that we can take it and see how we can help you out okay at this point I will not be able to answer to your queries immediately because that is looked after by a different team PM Prishnasa is asking I am writing six subjects sorry six subjects exam date is same what to do in that situation possibly I request you to kindly wait for some time because we'll show you that there are three exam dates in a semester and maximum you can write exam in six papers on every day there are two courses you can write two exams on a particular date so if you choose the courses in such a way that on each day in a course page it is written which is the exam date so you select the courses in such a way that not more than two exams are on a particular date in that case you'll be writing the exam in the 4 noon afternoon 4 noon afternoon 4 noon afternoon three days six papers you can actually complete our Praveen is asking sir is that we want to pay for the courses and each certificate yes thousand rupees that you pay that is towards the examination fee and each certificate going forward in the certification we say that okay we are having two or three components that is your final examination that carry 75 percent or 50 percent and depending on programming non-programming courses 25 percent for the assignment and additional 25 percent for the programming courses you should get 40 percent score individually in each of this component for a non-programming course you should get 10 out of 25 in assignment and 30 out of 75 in the final examination we have got five point reading that is if the cumulative total is less than 40 we consider that okay you are unsuccessful and don't get a certificate score between 40 to 59 we say you are successfully completed score between 60 to 100 will be our eight tag like elite word how you are seeing it here the elite word will be written on the certificate that indicates your score is between 60 to 100 if you have got 60 to 74 only this elite word will be there however if your score is between 75 to 89 you will have a silver badge ribbon silver badge will be printed addition in addition to the elite word similarly the gold badge will be printed if your score is consolidated score is between 90 to 100 additionally if you are a course stopper the certificate will also carry the top rc 1 percent 2 percent 5 percent we will talk about the benefit of these stoppers in the coming slides okay this is how a sample certificate would look like it will carry your photograph name course you have done individual components that is assignment score final exam score cons consolidated score how many people have actually clear the exam when this exam was conducted your roll number all these details will be provided in the certificate including the qr code so that if the college who is taking these courses for credits if they want to verify the authenticity of the certificate they can simply use a qr code scanner and check the certificate directly from our portal okay the important points to remember is that you should if you are a from local chapter kindly select your local chapter while enrolling into the course if you are a faculty member or the student then definitely it will be asking whether you are connected with a local chapter select your local chapter so that the college can get some benefit out of your performance at the end of the semester once we calculate or recognize the colleges based on the performance of their learners these numbers your performance will actually improve the rating of the college so you are most welcome to select your local chapter from there we identify the learner not by their name but by their email ID as long as you maintain the same email ID we'll identify you and carry forward all your learnings together tomorrow if you change suppose you have registered in the course or enrolled into the course using a mail ID submitted the assignments using the same email ID but if you register for the course using a different email ID your assignment score will be reduced to zero because we will identify you using your same email ID also suppose you have enrolled in a course and registered for the course in using different email IDs as someone are asking they want to write the examination in six papers if they have registered using different email IDs in that case there is a possibility that they will be getting exam slots same exam slots they will not be able to write the exam two exams in a single slot this happens or even sometimes it happens that you'll be having a first exam here then the next exam would be in a different center so just to avoid all this confusion always use your same email ID that you are using for enrollment same to be used for the exam registration so before writing the exam please ensure that you have checked the exam registration date okay since each certificate carry your photograph and this photograph this certificates are likely to be used for credit transfer purpose we would suggest that you upload a formal photograph of yours okay because this is an official document that you are likely to produce it before the prospective employer or your college authorities for credit transfer or maybe for domain certification for anything maximum two exams you can write and six exams per semester can be given for certification purpose it is important to note since this college which is organized in this program today's since Joseph's college arts and science there are few mathematic based courses where they will be requiring usage of calculators kindly note that in the examination hall you will not be permitted to carry physical calculators and you'll have to use the on-screen calculator only so definitely it is essential that you should have enough practice during the assignment stage so that you are thorough in using the on-screen calculator you can check the any student who has actually appeared for any exam in the past semester in the hall tickets this link is provided so you can actually use that link and practice it beforehand before going to the examination hall if your college is actually taking these courses for credit transfer and you are anticipating a large number of students will be writing the exam please alert NPTEL beforehand so that we can make best use of the resources otherwise it may so happen that number of students who will be registering for an exam will exceed the capacity what capacity you can handle on a particular day since these are all online exam we definitely need certain resources and if number of students we come to know at a very large at a very large late stage that large students are to be accommodated it may be difficult for us to accommodate on that day so either in that case we'll be shifting the students to another center which could be far off location or the exam could be conducted on a date which is other than the specified date maybe we are usually conducting the exams on saturday and sunday the exam could be conducted on friday thursday depending on the number of registration that are reported from that particular city on a particular date okay every time i'll show in the next timeline slot we'll be showing you that we have got different timelines for registering for four weeks eight weeks and 12 weeks earlier the 12 weeks exam registration date used to be aligned with the second set of courses that we offer after a month's time from august but this time since we are having more number of exam registration for the 12 week courses because of the credit transfer mechanism we have actually shifted within the first slot so kindly ensure that you are noting for the 12 week exam registration date and accordingly encouraging the students to register these are the timelines we say that we are having uh say three set of courses four weeks eight weeks and 12 weeks so we distribute the four weeks and eight week courses into two groups first set of four weeks and first set of two eight weeks along with all two week courses will start on 24th of july and the enrollment will close exactly after one week that is on 31st july by 5 p.m the enrollment will close for first set of four weeks eight weeks and all 12 week courses a second set of courses of four weeks and eight weeks will be starting one month later that is from august 21st these courses will start and the enrollment will close on the same day there will not be an extension on the timeline so four weeks course will be completed within a four months uh four weeks time that is within a months in august eight weeks course first set of eight weeks course will be completed within september and we'll be having the exam for these two set of courses in september on a particular date september 24th okay the all 12 week courses and second set of four weeks and eight week courses we'll have exam on focus october 28th and 29th on each day exam will be conducted in two sessions one between 9 to 12 and second between two to five so if you are looking for six exams as some faculty member or some learner has actually pointed out in that case you have to select two courses maybe from this slot four weeks eight weeks one one course or two courses from here two courses from here whatever it is maximum two courses whose exams are scheduled on to september 25 24 you can select similarly you can select four courses from these three slots and write the registered for the exam exam registration dates are given exam registration form is already open so if you are planning to write the exam do not delay it for the benefit of getting exam center closer to your home okay and complete the registration by 14th occurs for the first set of courses and seven 11th september for the second set of courses with without late fee with late fee additional charges will be paid or required to be paid you can register by 18th august for the first set and 15th september for the second set okay so now say you have taken a decision that we will be taking a course what are the steps you should follow first thing you can check that list of courses and the timelines from this first link nptl.se.in so if I just click here what happens it takes me to the nptl portal if I just scroll it down I will see list of courses and timelines and guidelines the timelines and guidelines document that I have shown is available here and the list of courses if you open it you will get semester wise sorry discipline wise the course list is available here whether this course is you can save new course rerun course which institute is offering the course then starting date ending date exam registration date whether it is undergraduate level or postgraduate level which is a core course selective course whether this course is related to any domain all these informations are given as well as link is provided through which you can actually go to the course page for enrollment purpose okay this is important to note here you will find there are many places where it is written new courses and rerun courses we will talk more about it in the coming slides also if you want to say suppose your college is taking these courses for field transfer and you want to know the schedule before and for the next semester you can also go to this particular page nptl semester information here say you are right now in june july 2023 this tentative course list I have shown you from there you can see the timelines but if you are looking for january 2024 say timelines you are looking for when the semester will start you can get the details here similarly as and when the courses are confirmed we will start putting the courses here particularly the rerun courses we will be indicating that these are the courses will be which will be offered from january 2024 so we usually declare that courses much ahead of time so that the colleges and the universities can take note of our schedule and the courses and identify the courses for the field transfer mechanism okay now if you are joining to these courses and if it is a rerun course that is the first if you are actually encouraging the learners then you definitely should encourage them to take a course from the rerun list before I go ahead I will just take a course question sir postgraduate courses are valid for gate entrance exam sir I would not say that it is a postgraduate course I will say that gate has got gate exam has got a syllabus and based on the syllabus there could be some courses which are in the UG level because gate is primarily for the on completion of the UG level you will be going for the gate examination so just check for the gate examination portal I will show you more details on that kind of hold on will provide you complete details about the gate portal and how gate portal can actually help the learners to do well in the gate examination okay I will show you give you complete details about the gate examination in the coming slides so if you are actually encouraging your learners to take the courses for the first time it is always advisable to go for a rerun course what you do in a rerun course say this is our NPTEL.sc.in portal under which we have gone for the NPTEL courses say if you are taking a course on say cloud computing this is being offered now so that is the reason it is written here end roll now if I go to this portal I will see what all things are available I can see the videos here okay weekly videos each and every lecture I can see it here similarly what else we can see we can see in the download section you have got you can download the videos from here you can download the assignment so one set of assignment is available here so if the first learn the first time the learner is taking these courses they can go to the assignment page for the rerun course and see in one of the previous run how the assignment questions were posed so after going through the video they should be able to solve similar type of problems but in the forthcoming semester when the assignments are coming they will not be having exactly same assignment it will be new set of assignment but at least they will have some idea about the levels okay then for some of the courses you have got transcripts that is the lectures have been converted into different Indian languages including English so this course has been translated into English Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Tamil Telugu in all such languages so if someone is someone might have studied in the vernacular medium say Tamil Telugu Malayalam any language given up to say 12 standard and they are finding it little difficult to follow the course in that case they can be encouraged to follow the English or language based transcripts what is available for that particular course so in the first level if they go through a easier course where it's a rerun course there's all the supporting materials the student will have a lot of confidence to face a tougher course in the coming semesters okay so they can use these not only that some of these courses where you have got transcripts in multiple languages you can download the complete transcript into a single book format say you want to download it in say Tamil you can download the whole book in Tamil medium which will be easy for the students to refer particularly those who are not very comfortable in say English in the beginning state they can download this video and study the thing in their mother tongue okay so these are the benefits that are given to see if I downloaded I have downloaded the file say cloud computing course in Tamil so these booklets will be definitely helpful the learners okay now I have gone through the course I've identified the course I'll take a rerun course but now I have to join into the course how do I join into the course I just go to the swam.gov.in there is an app also you can join through your mobile devices also okay click onto the all courses you can put a filter here national coordinator as NPTEL you'll find all NPTEL courses which are currently in offer you can select based on the discipline say you are humanities and arts discipline courses you can select based on the course duration say is a 12 week course you are looking for say I am looking for a course on environmental and resource economics I am looking for this course okay or say feminist writing I am interested for this course this is a 12 weeks course coming from NPTEL enrollment starts on sorry ends on 31st of July exam is on 28th October this is a course card after I am satisfied with this course card information I will click onto the course card it will take me to the course enrollment page where I will have little more detailed information there is a small video that highlights the learning outcome of the course about the course who are the intended audience if there is any prerequisite knowledge required to understand this course not for joining but for understanding the course the course layout weekly syllabus books and references instructor biography course this thing after going through all these details if I am satisfied okay I am interested for to join this course I will click onto the join button then it will open different avenues before me to join into the course if I use my google account click here and select my google account in that case it will take me to the enrollment course page where some of my personal information like name mobile number email id age group which can be selected from the drop down menu gender country pin code state all these things will be taken from the drop down menu then you are selecting whether you are a student or faculty or employed or other for a student or faculty you will be asked to select whether you are from a swam local chapter or not see if you are from local chapter select your say yes and select your college from the drop down menu of that particular state okay then part of a local chapter yes select it roll number you say put your roll number degree that you are pursuing or be a become bsc or be take department that you are associated we have given a list of few departments all departments cannot be listed here so what you can do is this for our internal consumption so you can select whichever department closely is related to your current level of studies select that department okay so from the drop down menu you see which is the department that closely matches with yours select that study here whether you are studying in first year second year third year fourth year whatever year you are studying select that click on to that checkbox i agree to the swam terms and service terms of service and agree to follow the honor code check on to this then join the course it will first indicate that i have successfully enrolled into the course it has taken me to the course page okay here you can see thank you for registering for the course click the announcement tab for important information now here this is the course page where i will be getting logging into to see the weekly activities whether the video lectures interacting with the students submitting the assignments score assignments for all these things are replicated here see if i am first timer into the portal there are a few videos which will help me to guide or other which will guide me to understand how the portal works then for the week zero you can see week zero is a practice test is given this is not graded this is just to give you that okay if there is any prerequisite you will need to understand whether you have that prerequisite knowledge so this is basically a testing mechanism on your prerequisite is not graded for final certification authorize once the course is starting from say 24th of july you will find week one and under week one you will be having week one videos week one assignment all these things will be there whatever we do when the assignment videos are released we make an announcement and this announcement is also shared with your email so you'll be getting the announcement information also in your mail okay then you can ask the question to the faculty using this forum you can see the progress of your course you can post your queries here you can see after submission of the assignment which will be coming here on this side you solve the assignment question then you can see your progress here i think there is some questions are while registering for example we are unable to know the exact place of the center we could able to select only the north or south areas is it possible to know the exact place then it will be easy at this point let me tell you if you are in the administration side at this point you really do not know how many students will be writing the exam from a particular city and based on the number of registered candidates we'll have to say identify which student should be located where so that's why we'll be using your pin code we'll try to make you to the nearest pin code of the exam center we are still exploring a more number of seats in certain cities so at this point it will not be possible to disclose which is the exam cities it will be based on the number of students who are registered suppose we have identified okay we'll be selecting you say Chennai has got say 3000 learners who can be accommodated in a particular session but when we have identified say five centers and the candidate has selected a particular center of his or her choice but once the number exceeds the capacity of that how do i manage that i will not be able to manage that so that is the reason we don't disclose the center that will be giving it to you we only say city and i'll tell you the point the one of the learner who was the first domain scholar in our court he was from Arunachal Pradesh many of you might be knowing the geographical location this is a hilly terrain and he used to come for writing the exam in gohati which is very far out in a different state he used to come and write the exam that's the interest and if you are say selecting a city like say Delhi maybe you will be asked to go from one part north to south which may not be more than say 20 kilometers or 30 kilometers but there are many places where you really do not have centers at that nearby place also the students are taken by bus by the college or students they themselves travel by train or bus so because of the logistic prison that i have mentioned it's not possible to mention the exact center at this point because if there is a overflow of that center how do i take care of it okay because number of students who will be registering for the exam is absolutely unknown figure okay so you'll be seeing your progress here it will be every week there will be numbers will be given here week one week two out of hundred what is your score and if you have selected any of your faculty as your mentor what other any faculty who has from your college if they want to become a mentor in that case use first the faculty will enroll into the course identifying that they are a faculty spoc will identify this faculty as a mentor from the dashboard and the under this mentor you will be able to see the name of the faculty and select the faculty in that case your performance will be reflected into the mentors dashboard and they will be able to see your performance on a weekly basis and provide a first level of support to you okay so a faculty can become a mentor for about 50 students covering two courses and support you as and when it is required okay this was all about portal enrolling into the course you have enrolled into the course you have gone through the content submitted the assignments all things you have done now you are decided to take the certification exam exam registration is not done through the swam portal it is through NPTEL separate portal so for this you will have to as someone has pointed out that you will have to select the exam date exam city not center exam city and you will have to give two or three options if first choice is not available then only you will be taken to the second slot so that is the reason we say that if you have decided to write the examination select your or registered for the exam beforehand so that we are in a position to accumulate or you can say connect with different colleges and bring more seats for the college okay so this is how exam registration portal will look like you will have to use your say email id and register for the exam from here and you will have to pay 1000 rupees fee this was the first part in the second part I was going to show you some of the statistics we have created more than 3000 courses but many of these courses are being offered in a semester to semester this is in rerun mode so far we have completed about 5000 372 courses we offered with more than 2.3 crore learners registering or enrolling into the portal and it's 28.6 lakhs plus exam registration the candidates coming and registering for the examination and getting a e-verifiable certificate what started in 2014 with just three courses with about a lakh students enrolling and about 3000 people registering for the examination during the last semester January to April alone we offered 665 courses with more than 24 lakhs enrollment and 5.1 lakh plus exam registration was reported this time we are offering 690 plus courses and we have already crossed more than 8 lakhs exam enrollments and few thousands exam registrations okay we are covering or offering the courses not only from the engineering curricula which are very popular job oriented or core courses but we are also offering the courses from humanity social science basic sciences you can see physics chemistry mathematics design architecture aerospace earth science law all lot of courses from different disciplines whether they are very popular or maybe targeted for a very high level the researchers that type of courses although the registration number might be less we are offering such type of courses for the benefit of the select group of learners okay you can see the numbers and the exam cities as we say that we have got more than 150 to 200 exam centers across the country but if you see the number wise where the challenge lies is that more number of registrations are reported from these centers during July to December 2022 you can just imagine a city where you have to conduct the exam on three days for 48000 students it's a real uh logistic challenge for us so until I always e-register beforehand and we have some idea about these numbers it is difficult for NPTEL to arrange or manage that is say exam centers properly later on if you register very late then complaints come from the colleges that our students have been asked to move very far off that is the reason because we really do not have an idea because people register for the exam at the last moment and at that point it becomes difficult to arrange centers the required number of exam centers so in that case if we register late or if the numbers are suddenly increasing beyond our control in that case we will be exploring the possibility of either shifting the students to a different location or maybe conducting the exam on other dates what is other than the ones which is which are specified we always find that about 90 percent students turn up for the 80 to 90 percent student turn up for the examination which is very high compared to other exams which are conducted in online mode and past percentage what used to be 80 to 90 percent earlier has taken a deep little deep in the post-covid scenario maybe the students or the learners need to take an introspect into that why the numbers are going one of the reason could be that they expect when we interacted with the colleges the students expect that okay whatever questions have been asked in the assignment same questions are not coming into the final exam it will never happen okay only thing in the assignment the questions are posed just to check whether you have understood the concept properly if you have understood the concept properly solve the assignment problems yourself then if there is a tweaking of data or some changes in that assignment question but testing the same understanding level then one should be able to reproduce the same thing in the final exam but that is not happening because many of the times even I interacted with the colleges where a huge failure rate was reported most of the cases that complain was that the assignment questions were not asked in the final exam which is unlikely and if you are aspiring to get 90 plus marks definitely there will be some challenging questions which you have to solve to get a very good marks exam registration if you say gender statistic gender base it is 40 to 60 that's very good 40 female and 60 male that covers within that range typically why do the people take the courses for NPTEL courses primarily we find that okay these courses are taken for the credit transfer definitely some of these courses are taken by the students to update their knowledges for getting job opportunities or internships some people take these courses for say preparing better for the competitive exam like get to learn more about newer areas all these things okay popular courses in NPTEL particularly from the enrollment and exam registration perspective if you see yeah definitely more courses are from the computer science which are linked to the jobs market this in these days data science python java but equally good number of registrations are reported in the sub-skill area okay as we said that we are conducting we are taking the help of the PMRF scholars to conduct the live sessions every week we try to conduct the live sessions for the benefit of the learners where the PMRF scholars will be directly interacting in a live session directly connecting with some virtual media and interacting with them helping them in understanding the concept solving problems for them okay that really helps and that is evident from the feedbacks that we receive from the PMRF scholars they have been very beneficial okay that's what a report says now many of the students we see that they take the courses from here and there without in a directed path just to help the students to take care say if they are planning to go for a higher education or thinking of taking a job opportunity in a particular sector then just to prepare the students from that particular domain we have selected a list of courses with the possibly the students if they do they'll get some expertise on that idea and that is we call NPTEL domain scholars that is we have we have got 12 disciplines and out of 12 disciplines we have created 51 domains they're not only from say engineering disciplines but we have courses from our domains created from humanities social science and basic science domains also so you can just look for the domains which you'll be discussing little then based on the your association the learners association with the NPTEL continuously over a period of time and the number of courses they are doing and the performance we actually recognize the learners as NPTEL stars a be it superstars a one-jealous motivated learners enthusiast discipline stars and believers if someone is enrolling into the course in a semester say four five or six exams they're writing and top are in at least three exams you call it NPTEL superstars but if they are present in at least 18 exams in four years or eight semesters and past in two-third of the courses appear then you call it evangelists similarly we have identified different criterias for mentioning them as motivated learners enthusiast discipline stars or believers domain is very important for this here here it gives if someone is completing the domain related courses they get expertise or foundation in the area of interest from that particular domain okay and naturally if they have mass study over a particular area then it definitely helps them in pursuing their higher studies or getting better job opportunities or internship opportunities now here for each domain if you just go to this link it takes me to the domain and here if you just see browse our domain and courses every discipline aerospace biotechnology bioscience chemical seven engineering computer science electrical engineering faculty discipline humanity social science management mathematics mechanical engineering metallurgy and material science all these 12 disciplines we have created 15 you can sorry 51 domains say if someone is interested from your college to do a domain course in mathematics in that case what they do they click onto the mathematics domain there are few core courses and few elective courses they all have to complete these core and elective courses within a period of 12 sorry three years within a period of three years they have to complete the courses say here you have got how many core courses you have to complete three core courses out of basic calculus calculus to linear algebra these two options okay similarly elective courses some elective courses are provided all these core and elective courses in whichever way you feel order order is not important you have to complete all this core and elective courses within three years timeline okay if you complete the core core and elective courses within three years timeline with an average score of 50 60 percent individual course not less than 55 percent individual course marks not less than 55 in that case excuse me in that case you get a domain certificate okay so this is what I have shown different domains available humanities social science you have got English studies psychology similarly you have got you can say other disciplines where mathematics also you have got two domains computer science electrical and whether it is art science college or any other college they can take the domains from other disciplines also this is how a sample domain certificate looks like it will carry the photograph of the student the domain that they have completed the courses related to that domain is reflected here NPT domain learners number of people those are completing the domains you can see is progressing very well in the last semester itself 30 people have completed a domain then there are superstars evangelists the numbers are reflected here so far we have completed about 13150 star learners we have caught most popular courses amongst the industry some of the courses that we have noted that okay these are very very popular or considered important by the industry they are listed here whether it is from the you can say renewable energy sources or of course sources from the computer science or IoT internet of things blockchain six sigma and all these areas multiple course takers as one of the faculty was saying that they want to take six courses there are many people actually you can see the number six courses were taken by 758 learners during one year period or 12 courses six courses every semester were taken by 17 learners during the January to December 2022 okay highest number of NPTL course takers during January 21 to July 22 is is a mix of student faculty members who have done more than 20 courses okay NPTL initiatives will talk okay UGC gate has notified that okay NPTL courses can be taken for the KG transfer UGC has approved up to 40% courses can be approved for credits okay and AICT has actually signed an agreement with NPTL that all say advanced level courses and you can say elective courses many of the elective courses are considered as equivalent to FPP course and if the faculty members completing the course they can write for the FPP certificate right means they register in the course by identifying themselves as faculty complete the certification process then they apply for the FPP certificate by paying an additional fee of 100 rupees and this is how an FPP certificate looks like a four weeks course is considered as equivalent to half FPP of one week eight weeks courses considered as a full FPP of one week 12 week courses are one and a half weeks FPP okay this is how in the course page it will be written that this is an FPP course okay and in this you can see in the timelines how many people or how many faculty members have completed the FPP courses in a semester exam registration will find almost 17 to 20% of the exam registration comes from the faculty itself okay so here also you can see almost 17% that is 18,990 faculty members registered for the exam in the last semester there is a question from Palo Chini suppose my son choose computer science that course details available that means C++ Java are including that computer science yes you can see there are a number of courses you can just go to the swam.gov.in portal write C or C++ or go to nptl.ac.in portal and see the checklist C C++ Java courses if even if you are not from computer science then also you can take these courses okay here you most of these courses are of 12 weeks duration start date is from possibly from 24th of July you can just go there see yourself what is being taught in that course then join okay then the SPOCs who are the torch BRR of NPTEL in academic institutions we do provide some support to the SPOCs for attending the conference if they are some of the papers I mean accepted accepted for say some of the conferences in IITs, NITs, ISR, IISG and a list of institutions if you can go to the portal it gives a list of institutions we can support you to the extent of 25,000 say reimbursement towards your travel expenses and your registration fees every month first 10 days we keep the portal open when you can apply for this with the request required number of documents and if it is approved on completion of the say program we can get give you the reimbursement in case the SPOC is not availing the benefit if you feel that okay any of the faculty member from your college is interested and one of his paper has been accepted you can also nominate him for taking this benefit this is gate portal someone was asking about the gate portal yes gate is an exam which is not only linked for your master's program but also linked for job opportunities in the public sector under taking for this what we have done if you are taking a course say I'll just show you what we do here say this is the gate portal gate dot nptl dot hc dot in see here what you have done get syllabus mapping say you are appearing for a say computer science and engineering discipline and you want to prepare for say operating system course then if you have identified the topic operating system which are the video lectures that will help you to understand that particular course okay so this is how we call this is syllabus mapping that is you select the discipline you select which you can say the subject you are taking within that then sub topic that sub topic will have linked to number of video lectures from nptl just go to the video lectures not only that if you just see here say as a part of preparation what we do also try to solve previous years of video like lectures previous year question papers so in that case if I if I know okay which are the year I am looking for the topic say digital circuits I am looking for digital circuits related question I can see say previous year question papers either based on the topic or based on the year I can select say EC this is video based solutions are available so I can get syllabus mapping I can get video based solution of the previous exam papers not only that I can also take mock test get practice test these are free of course okay so you can actually go to the mock test I can go to the course and take mock test on a selected dates we carry the mock test so you can avail that and the students who have taken this get mock test they have highly praised about that even the rankers in the gate examination they have pointed out that they are extremely bigot lot of benefits out of it by going through the video lectures which are mapped with the get syllabus as well as taking the mock test is a three hour stage and at the end of three hours you will be getting the score okay NPTEL pass is an another initiative suppose many of the times we find that the students in the final semester have taken a course and they were unfortunately not successful in completing the course and NPTEL does not take an internship you can say take a supplementary exam in that case what happens the students are inconvenienced so one of the option for them or even for the industry people who do not have too much of time spending too much time to take the courses from NPTEL for the benefit of them what you have done whenever they want they can actually join into the course and competing at their own pace the 12 week course if they want to compete with you know within a period of seven days or 10 days they are able to do that to NPTEL class platform but definitely it comes with a cost that is you pay fees for accessing the content and a little higher fees for writing the examination in NPTEL what do you get you access accessing the course content is absolutely free exam registration is free is 1000 rupees but here accessing the course content charge is there there is a charge to it and writing the exam instead of 1000 rupees will be charging 1500 rupees because this exam will be conducted in a remote product one are dedicated for you so there are certain charges available but the other differences are there in NPTEL courses these are curriculum based courses which are senate approved by is approved course of senate in IITs NITs or any other academic institutions but in NPTEL plus we offer the courses in addition to this type of courses we also offer the courses which are skill based courses maybe workshop maybe on a particular language what a particular say specific area where we are conducting say workshop which is of two hours to six months period which is conducted by the industry professionals so similar courses so it's not only limited to four eight or weeks structure that you follow it can be having two hours four hours to six months 12 months criteria also okay so it's not that we offer it once or twice in a year in NPTEL but this is offered anytime of the year any number of times with flexible start dates okay internship is an opportunity for the NPTEL course stoppers if any of your students are course stoppers we usually try to connect them with the faculty under whose course they have been doing very well so what do we do we seek the consent of the faculty whether he's ready to take an internship offer an internship for the course stoppers once we get a consent we write back to the students saying that the faculty is interested to offer new internship opportunity kindly give your consent the consented people those who have given a consent their data is shared to the faculty and the faculty selects the candidates based on their resume statement of purpose their last two semester great seat and of course their NPTEL performance based on that some students are selected who are actually taken to IIT or IAC and for a period of four weeks to maybe up to 12 weeks they stay there and do the internship under the faculty during the period of internship the students are paid a stipend of rupees 5000 for a month's tenure that is if they're doing a four weeks internship they are paid 5000 rupees 10,000 rupees for eight weeks internship and so on okay at the end of the internship they get an opportunity they get a certificate on submission of the internship report duly weighted by the faculty member under whom he has done the internship we can get further details about internship opportunities from NPTEL.sc.in slash internship okay Texas instrument is also offering the internship for the select group of students who have completed a set of courses as required by them that is basic electrical circuits and either analog circuits or analog IC design along with some courses from circuit analysis and on analog designers introduction to time varying electrical signals all these courses they have been identified you can just go to NPTEL.sc.in slash TI and the gate of list of courses which are required to get or be eligible to get an internship under TI internship program what NPTEL offers we are not only looking for developing or building the you can say the foundation of the students or making them eligible to for getting the job we know in the job interview soft skill plays a very pivotal role because they need to have you can say a very good communication skill they need to know how to develop the ratio okay so the as part of this training which is of either one week or two weeks duration we usually do a lot of testing for the students as a first is employee assessment test online interactive session we conduct we conduct also in online mock interviews all these things are done for the learners as part of that we also say give them exposure on the communication skill writing skill resume building then interpersonal skill how do they actually write a very good resume how to use the social media for the job opportunities all these things are given exposure on that every day certain hours of time they have to spend within the internship they are given some home tasks they have to complete it and at least 80% attendance is essential for this one to one mock interviews employability assessments are placed are also conducted as part of this program which is of one week or two weeks duration the impact of soft skill training has been deported in our NPTEL portal in the feedback channel you can just go through that how the internship or the soft skill training has been extremely beneficial for the students to face the interview in a much more confident way additionally we are also in touch with a lot of industry partners for various reasons it's not only that okay we provide CSR they we get some funding from them as part of the CSR initiative which we use for providing a few a word to the needy students which are recommended by the students you might be knowing that there are certain category of students who are who cannot afford to pay 1000 rupees exam fee for them we take the support of the CSR corporate social responsibility at funding what we receive from the industry we channelize that amount for the support of those students so the students as recommended by the college are approved for the internship for the fee waiver partial fee waiver they registered for the exam by paying the full fees and on completion of the court successful completion of the course the 50% of the fee is refunded to the students that is how the fee waiver mechanism works additionally we also engage with the industry to provide internship or placement assistance to our students in addition to that we also engage with the NPTEL industry associates to provide say special lectures on what goes on industry what the industry expects from our students how the students should prepare better for the job market and so on so for multiple reason not only for developing the four say courses in addition in association with the industry partner we take the help of the industry partners for the CSR activities internship opportunities special lecture series all these activities and you see the type of companies with whom we have tied up it's not only from private sector from government sector private sector all are included okay from different say type of industries we are conducting the live session through them a number of live sessions that you have conducted is about 121 through different companies that whose names are reflected here NPTEL to offers have been provided some assistance to get the placement assistance and the numbers that we could win actually been successful is reflected here we said about the CSR initiative where we are trying to provide support to the needed students from tier two tier three cities primarily and the distribution of number of beneficiaries across different states are reflected here and if you see the footprints it's across the country wherever the students are needed the colleges approach us and the feedback from the student beneficiaries indicates whatever my parents are farmer they do farming you know there is not good situation of weather for farming they face lots of issue for earning I want to thank you for providing few ever so they are a very needy students a student from Marastu has written he's from a farming family and difficult for him to actually pursue the course by paying 5000 rupees so that is the reason these CSR initiative by the NPTEL with support from the industry is extremely beneficial for some of the meritorious needy students translation is an activity that I have shown that okay NPTEL courses are translated into different digital languages but since NPTEL office does not have all the expertise of different language experts so we definitely seek your support the local chapter colleges who has got the faculty members from the local chapter colleges who has got good expertise on a particular domain a particular course of NPTEL has also you can say has got expertise on his local language can approach us and help us in getting the video lectures which are translated into English into their different languages is a paid job so he can approach us will give you the sample video sample text documents which you will have to go through it convert into a sample format if it is approved by the committee then definitely you can complete it and you'll be paid on that paid for that so you definitely seek your support so far we are lagging on this initiative and definitely the faculty members from the college can help us in this endeavor for the benefit of the learners who have come that year to year three cities translation because what we have carried out in different languages number of courses you can see not many have been done into different languages we are available in our social medias whatever we do whatever the students they want to write they write it to us and they are affected in our social media handle so there's a LinkedIn Twitter Instagram Facebook YouTube whatever all we are available everywhere we can see the feedbacks and these are the star learners that we talked about they're given certain mementos in the form of t-shirts and all which they proudly show we also conduct laboratory workshops of 1x duration and during the summer of winter vacations where the learners a select group of learners will be going to one of the institution identify institution and learning the theory and practicals during this period and at the end they will be going to the test and a certificate will be awarded to the student particularly many of the students many of the colleges may not have all the facilities so the workshop that we conduct if you feel that your students have not been exposed to that type of environment you can definitely encourage the students to join the workshop during these we charge a fee of this 200 a token amount we take it so that the students take this program as serious and the students have to pay towards the accommodation and food expenses while being accommodated in IITs or NITs or wherever the workshop is being conducted this is a local chapter you know that we have got about more than 5500 local chapters right now they're spread across the length and breadth of the country not only that we have got few local chapters across the country also outside the country also about 50 local chapters and local chapter participation in the NPTEL program is roughly around 90 percent okay top 10 top 100 local chapters you can see active local chapters numbers how do we calculate active local chapters there are 25 students writing the exam from the college and at least 13 students at least 20 50 percent of the students if they qualify to get the certificate then only we say that the college is an active local chapter outside the country we have got about 50 local chapters local chapter participation as I said it varies it was roughly like 70 to 90 percent in the last semester July to December 2022 we had about 90 percent enrollment exam registration coming from local chapters so local chapter participation on a statewide basis you can see it's not all states are equally participating we are definitely we need to reach out to the colleges from other regions so that they know they are aware of it and take benefit of this government initiative statewide's enrollment again some state to extremely well some are lagging behind we are trying to reach out to those colleges through such initiative like workshops and all for a new local chapter the solution is that first once the students are coming we say that first semester we can leave them let them get accustomed to the news environment then from the second semester we can actually prescribe them some soft skill course or English level course so that at least they take it they are in a comfort zone and can complete the course easily also get exposure on the how the program online certification program later on you can actually expose them on a programming courses or skill based courses like data science artificial intelligence machine learning iot blockchain all these courses okay you can also encourage the students to pursue a domain related course so that at least within three or four semesters they are in a position to complete six or seven courses and aren't a specialized knowledge on a particular area the students can also be encouraged to make use of the gate portal so that in addition to what they do along with the foundation level conditions that are gained from the courses they can also do a lot of mock test silvers mapping previous question paper solving they can take those guidelines initially we would suggest that you recommend the courses which are rerun course so that the students don't have to wait till the course is live in the portal they can go to the portal and see the videos beforehand and also get exposed around the type of assignment questions that are expected in the coming days if possible assign a mentor so that the students if they face any difficulty there is a local teacher who is helped they are to help the students and it is not essential that the mentors have to write the examination they will have to be definitely registered for the enrolled into the course so that they know what is going on to the course and it is not mandatory but we definitely encourage the faculty also to write the exam so that the students are better encouraged okay based on the performance of the NPTEL say mentor candidates mentees the NPTEL mentor is also recognized by his certificate okay what is the mentoring try to mentor certificate criteria first of all if one of your mentor is either a top or gold medalist we say you are a top performing mentor okay otherwise if you are getting at least 10 mentorship points how do you calculate that number of students you are mentoring that means we are writing the example that they are counted as one okay and number of mentees who are between 60 to 74 5 points 75 to 89 8 points number of mentees in the gold point that is 90 plus 20 points so based on the number of students on whom you are mentoring and their performance if you get at least 10 mentorship points you are given a certificate of recognition feedbacks as we said we are available in different facebook twitter instagram youtube all these channels whatever feedbacks they give either in the form of videos or takes they are available here interested learner are encouraged to go through that to know how other people those who have done these courses what they say about the courses okay additionally i'll just touch upon the new initiative from iit madras is a bs degree program in two domains that is one is data science and application and is electronic system data science and application started about three years back here whether it's a science and application or electronic systems these courses can be done parallely along with your so if you are pursuing a da bsc bcom and if you are interested do a parallel degree from it madras to a bs bt program you can do it it is a flexible structure is a four years program but can be completed within a period of eight years you can also quit the program in between taking the certificate of that particular level so there are four levels first one is the foundation level second one is a diploma third one is a bsc fourth one is a bs so you can join and quit at any point you can just complete the second year and quit as a diploma from it madras there is no hd meet anyone who has just completed tell standard can actually join to the program and joining to the program is not linked to your j e advanced score you can only join through a different qualifier process for that first you enroll into the program you are given a four weeks content you go through the content then you write every week there will be some assignments as you do in nptl solve those problems submit it which are graded out of it then based on the performance in your assignment you'll be given a permission to write the final examination at the end of four weeks if you get a minimum qualifying marks then you are enrolled into the main program that is a qualifier stage once you come into the main program every semester there are say four to five courses now based on your availability your academic pressure you can actually take one two or four courses depending on your capability okay that is a flexible structure and the fees also paid according if there is a x amount of fee for four courses then if you're taking one course you pay only one fourth of that and register so you have got flexibility in terms of fee payment in terms of the way you complete okay so minimum period to complete the program is four years but you can complete it in eight years for data science and application the requirement is that you should have 10th standard in the 10th standard you should have science sorry mathematics and english for the electronic system you should have science background at the high secondary level okay from that level whether it's a data science or electronic system you can be taken to the BST program level whatever is required to be taught that faculty members here will be teaching it is online video but there will be regular interaction on a daily basis there will be some another doubt clearing session so although it is lecture is only video recorded one but there will be regular live interactive session to clear your doubts okay for the electronics systems in between the semesters when you have a semester break you will have to come to IIT Madras and do the laboratory sessions yourself in IIT Madras itself so there is a huge benefit for the electronic systems where you get a real IIT atmosphere exposure on that okay so first you log in study for four weeks pass the exam then join the foundation level so this is how things go you can actually go to IIT Madras BS degree program portal and get much more details of that so you have got foundation level diploma level and degree level for the electronic systems and there are four levels for the data science that is foundation diploma BSC and BS they also come to the IIT sometimes during the year to engage with the faculty members participation participate in different other activities and feel have a feel like of what is going what goes in a in-campus model of learners with this I'll stop here if there are any questions I can take the questions from you otherwise I'll hand over the stage to the SPOC if there are any questions who are connected to you to you may kindly post your queries or if SPOC has got any queries you may kind of put forward that. Participants how many doubt kindly ask the question for in the chat box you have any doubt type your query in the chat box I think whatever questions that were coming I've tried to respond to that there is nothing pending okay I think there is nothing you can take the streets and republish the sessions just you may take over there is a question can you tell about fee structure for BS okay let me share my screen I had a screen I had a presentation on that this is how the fee structure of IIT Madras BS program stands foundation level for both has got different structures data science has got a foundation then the diploma level they have got two diplomas two verticals one is the data science another is programming so you can do one diploma two diplomas and the bsc you can complete after two diplomas and finally you do a bs program for the electronic system the bsc level is not available so it's a foundation diploma and bs since in an electronic system you'll be requiring a lot of interaction with the IIT Madras faculty you'll be coming and staying in the campus for a certain period of time after every semester so naturally and moreover you'll be giving lots of hardware resources to practice on your say electronic systems so naturally this is slightly costlier but if you just compare the engineering studying engineering in any say college it is lesser than that if you just see the main advantage here is that it is not that you have to pay the semester fees all together depending on the number of say foundation level there are eight courses in two semesters the cost is 32000 so each course is roughly about say 4000 so if you are taking only two courses in a semester you just pay 8000 rupees and complete the course that is how it works okay and the job opportunities electronic system is coming up in a very big way because of the policy of the government is electronic system designer embedded system developer electronic hardware specialist uh testing engineer and all okay I hope this clarifies the doubt of one of the student possibly uh if you just see the spectrum of the learners many of the learners in this program are actually doing a degree in addition to what is being done by what they are currently pursuing they might be doing a BST, BA or maybe other programs like BTEC and all they are doing it is an additional program that is very much possible as per the government norms and IT Madras this program also allows that and the degree program is actually a senate approved program that means on completion of the BS degree will be an alumni of IT Madras okay with this again I uh stop the slide if there are any questions you can take it otherwise you can republish the session participants without any worries we thank our resource person shift some of those professor sir we have the in the introductory profound knowledge on this workshop I mean for excellent presentations and making this workshop interesting and meaningful very clarity and it's a very wonderful presentation for us thank you so much for your presentation thank you so much sir yes ma'am can I move to next agenda yes sir please go ahead okay now it is a time to clarify our doubt sorry request the participant to clear any scores you can type in the chat box so now it's a time to talk about the local chapter in fact in one centers of college go over art and science I want to add the power points participants I want to add the local checker in fact in centers of college art and science go over journey the local chapter in fact our college the first one is here won't we send the letter to the local chapter team they immediately it was accepted and they provide the college local chapter ID and include the same in the so m NPTEL portents whatever you ask any queries and any letter they are immediately responding then the faculty member and students found so easy to register themselves and update the profile so they provide for us the local chapter ID our college ID is here five four six nine then next point is the NPTEL local chapter team also provide the brochure as corn copy with the various courses that is relevant to the courses that we offer in our college then students and stock number are very much benefited with the brochure and able to select the course without any confusions so I think to be two months back we received from the hot copy of the brochures from the IIT metros NPTEL teams so the brochure we posted in the college notice board the students are very much interested to observe the last date of the date and what are the courses so very much thankful to the NPTEL local chapter teams to IIT metros then the enrollment participant are benefited much may send by the NPTEL local chapter team regarding the announcement of the standard course list under start date and end date of the course exam date and exam registration so there are every every day they're sending for the course list so what are the even not only course list they're also sending for the workshop brochure and some of the information they're actively sent to the email then all the information pertaining to registration or release of the video content some submission of weekly assessment where sent the remainder through the registered email ID would complete the course without any tendency so that is also one of the helpful for the student and staff members so the local chapter team also in fact the motivate the enrollment participant by the providing information about the certificate course faculty development program and workshop program through the email the grant even was organized with the NPTEL team IIT metros on 24th June for the SPAC of the various college and the personally SPAC of the college of the myself was much benefited and it was like an ice-breaking session for me as soon as we approach NPTEL local chapter team they are given positive response so that it have become easy for us to conduct this program in short period of time thank you ma'am for accepting for our invitations thank you so much I think there is a query in the portal that is please inform about mentor certificate and how it is qualified just to answer to that for mentoring what you need to do is that a faculty who intends to become a mentor you can mentor a group of say 50 students first step would be you enrolled into the course identifying yourself that you are a faculty of the college next step the SPOC will be able to see your name in the registered list of the particular course the course specific who are the registered candidates against each faculty if you are a faculty enrolling into the course in that case against your name they name there will be a mentor tab that is if now next step will be taken by the SPOC who approves your mentorship if the faculty approves your mentorship in that case the students of that particular course from your college will be able to see your name coming under the mentor tab of your college that their course page okay so now whatever the students are doing that is if they are say submitting the assignment what all they do those things will be reflected to you so that you know the students are not submitting or submitting getting good marks or poor marks and you can intervene according to you later on based on the performance of the students some weightage is given say if the student is only writing the exam it's only one whereas if a student is getting say np as say elite goal that's 90 plus it has got say 20 that means 20 that is if you if your mentee student completes the course with say either a light goal or a topper you automatically become a you get a mentor certificate whereas if you get a student who have just completed with the elite tag on the which which has got a five weightage in that case you need two students under your mentorship on the npql mentor certificate okay this is how mentoring works that means each student will rather against each student's performance you'll be getting a point and if the cumulative total of the point is more than 10 you become eligible to get a internship certificate I think this carifies your point okay okay there are no other questions I think we can hand over the stage to Jayashree Jayashree what to you so thank you sir next I move to next agenda what up thanks now we are at the end of the sessions let me invite Mr. B Vijay Anand head of the department of philosophy centers of college to propose what up thanks that's all good things so on behalf of Saint Joseph College on science school would take this opportunity to propose what up thanks to those who have directly contributed to this workshop on npql avatars workshop organized by I would like to propose party of thanks to our resource person I would like to express what up thanks to our sister m db and extend my gratitude to our principal Dr. Mark Reven sir for providing this support to make this workshop happen successfully I would like to thank all the faculty members and students for their active participation to conclude let me call at what time to say live as if we were to die tomorrow love as if we were to live forever this workshop has provided us an incredible opportunity to learn and grow and learn and see grateful to everyone who has been here for making their career thank you all once again thank you sir yes ma'am yes ma'am studio team yes ma'am just give me a minute okay yes sir sorry sir okay ma'am thank you thank you so much ma'am for giving wonderful opportunity for okay sir thank you ma'am thank you so much okay sir thank you sir can you the meeting ma'am sorry sir sir can you able to hear me sir yeah now at the moment is my end of the session ma'am can I leave the meeting ma'am yes sure okay thank you so much ma'am thank you ma'am you can't stop stream stream