the quantum world But since I left solid-state physics essentially 40 years ago I had forgotten some of the key ideas involving reciprocal space and Bruhan zones Which are needed in a couple of her chapters? I therefore went to the web to refresh myself and I happened upon YouTube videos of your lectures at IAT Madras Especially numbers 27 and 30 and this reference is to professor Pratap Haridasa's videos and Found them very helpful and enjoyable. I just wanted to let you know That you are easy-going teaching style and you are elegant hand-drawn hand-done drawings They are very much appreciated by this viewer in far-off America Warmest wishes to you from Bloomington, Indiana. I have not read the Citations that we have received for many many other faculty members here There are many we will slowly put them up, but since Pratap happens to be here We decided that we should read that up But there are hundreds of citations like this from various other people and therefore it's important for us to enjoy what we learn Thank you Thanks, Wangal. So we are a little short on time I think I want to go through some of the other things a little faster than guest login was already, okay So this is a different presentation Move to the right presentation Okay, so we took a little longer the choice of course, but it got mixed up with the next one also So I think we're doing more or less. Okay, so let me just go through the Remaining things Barthi was very upset with me for not mentioning many of the important things that is there Presentations. I'm gonna go through this Okay, so I have to do some 10 more slides after which you All right, so deciding on a course I've already spoken about it a couple of pointers These are like, you know cheat sheet pointers. These are also quite important several courses will be reruns So what is the meaning of rerun? All the Material that was done in the previous time is also available material including assignments Solutions video lectures, etc Okay, so quite often this is of great use when you do the course again You know if it was run once before you know what assignments were given you can practice that ahead of time You'll know what kind of questions would come in the exam all those things are very useful So you might want to exploit that as well in particular the videos for those course will already be available for you Which you can download and put it in your land. Okay, so this kind of thing is very useful So please look out for these rerun courses if these courses are rerun Make sure you access the previous times content and use use it for your own benefit Okay, so student enrollment. This is another thing. I'll emphasize once again Even though a bunch of students are doing it through your local chapter each person has to Individually enroll in the course and individually submit assignments. Okay, so this is very very important You can ask them to watch the videos together if you like But they have to individually respond to assignments because otherwise we will not have their marks And they will not be able to write the exam. It will be a big problem So make sure that they each of them does it correctly and make sure that they pick the local chapter option when they enroll That's also very important. Okay Yeah, so the forum for instance We have seen continuously that local chapter colleges somehow the students are not using the forum a lot Okay, so now I think maybe this is for various reasons In fact some of the faculty from the mentors from the last time We had a meeting like this they mentioned that our students are not going to use the forum That's what they said plainly. They said forum is not really very actively used I don't know why but I think I think maybe you know if they want they're hesitating to write the questions directly Maybe you could help them, you know paraphrase that question and type it out for them, etc But asking questions in the forum is very very important. It gives valuable feedback to the instructor I think all the faculty here will also agree with me forum participation by your students is very important Please encourage them to do that Now another skill it develops in your student if you ask them to type the questions themselves is they have a question Now they have to think about communicating that question through written words in English on a forum Now this is an incredible skill for students to learn for everybody to learn. Okay, so it's very hard to do that It's not very easy. You have to write it very clearly so that somebody else can read understand and respond Okay, so it's a good skill to develop for your students as well So please encourage them to participate in the forum by asking questions directly on that. Okay Also even responding to questions. That's also very nice Okay, so during the course run as an SPOC you have to work with the mentors You have to monitor the progress of the students. Just make sure that they're doing okay So those emphasis on how dropouts happen For various reasons, it might be a bit natural that dropouts happen in online courses But do make an effort to minimize that as much as possible try to motivate students keep them motivated throughout Here again, your choice of courses will help you choosing the courses for which you can ensure that students stay motivated throughout will help a lot So please do Make that do that. I think All ticket. Yeah, so these are more administrative. So maybe bear Barthi will come back to it So exam related. Okay. So here is again an issue. So quite often when your students write exams This is done like I said through TCS. I on in various centers We want to hear back from you about what happened in the exam What did something go wrong? Did you have a good experience or not? No, this is very very very important I cannot emphasize this enough So for instance if you find that a very good student in your class in your school in your college is not getting good Marks in an exam, please let us know I mean these are things it could be an exam related issue if there were particularly exam related issues if you had good students Not getting marks that you think they should have got please let us know because these are all things that we can help out You know, this is feedback. That's important to us We can go back to our exam partner and tell them about these issues and get things resolved Okay, so please please keep the communication channels open even during the exam when the exam runs Are there issues with the center? Is it something not go well in the center? Please please let us know don't don't think that that's out of the outside of your involvement Okay, so was it easy to go to the center? Was it easy to write the exam? Was there air conditioning or are you sitting in 50 degrees writing the exam? Please please write that It's hard for us to be everywhere. So if you if you serve us with that fashion, it'll be very helpful Okay, so now I come to the notion of mentors Now this is also very important and the last time I think we frankly didn't do the mentors part very well we didn't pay enough attention to that part and Some of the things slipped Nevertheless, I want to talk about a few of these things now. Who is a mentor a mentor is some faculty member in your college who can help students? Go through that course. No, this is not just monitoring students or asking them to write the mean there are two parts to it Now one part is you monitor how many people are submitting assignments and ask them to submit assignments Make sure that they watch the video and encourage them to come to the lab give them some labs That is one part of it. The other part is to help them actively in the content of the course Okay, help them understand the content of the course help them do the assignments in the course now both of these are very critical No, you should do both and we think of a mentor as someone who does both Okay So someone who facilitates the online participation of students to do doing various things and also helps them understand the content Etc. Okay, so now We have some restrictions. We don't want one faculty member to be mentoring too many students We want we want that number to be Lesser now a mentor has to enroll in the course. That is a very important thing So every faculty member who wants to mentor students in your college They also have to themselves enroll in the course as a student and then they are added as a mentor and your students have to Pick them as mentors. Okay. These are important steps. I think we try sending instructions about this, but this is important And like I said basic tasks are quite okay Okay, so we will check if the mentor is enrolled and we will add that is something that you would do Okay, so I think this is fine. I think probably want to stop. I just want to mention recognition of mentors We are going to be a little bit more diligent and looking at what the mentor is doing Okay, so we want to see for instance How many students were being mentored and also the performance of those students? Okay, so if a student was mentored by someone we want to see how well that student did in the exam Okay, so we want to use that as a criteria for recognizing mentors This is an important step that we will be introducing from this semester onwards. Okay, so I think I want to stop here Maybe what I'll do now is for I'm gonna ask Barthi to maybe come on and talk a little bit more about some of these Administrative aspects of SPOC's and mentors and what you have to pay attention to etc. Okay So I think I'll stop you for now and ask Barthi to take over Thanks a lot once again for coming over. Okay, finally I get some claps Thanks a lot and I'll be around till the end of this workshop. I'm happy to chat with you in case you need any help. Thank you Good afternoon everyone Just as important are the courses the content and so on I think I'll be more speaking from the administrative point of view because we need also the run to be smooth and all Other aspects related to the courses we want to kind of smoothen out So we kind of put in together some points that we have again found from our experience of the last one year when we've had huge numbers Coming from local chapters Many of you may be familiar many of you it may seem new people who are just coming in as local chapters may not make sense But it's okay I guess I will go through some points and get back to us on any of these points in our later interaction saying where you All had difficulties that we would definitely want to know Yeah, so SPOC as Professor Andrew said already if you're a new SPOC you've just become a local chapter Please ensure that your details on the page are accurate many of our local chapter pages still don't have a college logo SPOC photos are not there so kindly updated be nice to have all the pages, you know having all this information there See if you start receiving emails from the NOC SPOC a Google group That should be something that we add in your email ID to the group and you'll start receiving emails one suggestion here We've had SPOC's who give their institute ID or somewhere where they receive really important mails and ours is a flood Okay, I think we see almost like 50 mails a day and many of them are related different issues may not you know Be directly involving you so in that sense you're loose track of what important announcements We give and it kind of puts you off from the other mails too We'd suggest maybe create an email ID specifically for y'all to be an SPOC some College name hyphen SPOC gmail.com or something and share it to us so that even if you move on as SPOC You just give that email ID to the next person coming in and the continuity remains rather than saying remove this ID Put in this ID and so on so don't kind of mix up your existing email IDs with this Just give us a separate email ID might work best for people who are getting in as SPOC's Yeah, we've been getting many requests from here as we're talking around saying that can you do workshops for our students internally in our college If you'll have seen our schedule for the last three weeks I think in three weeks We are doing about nine workshops and every workshop is a day or two for all of us Invariably the coordinators come with us from the office. We do all this organization So currently it is kind of a little hard for us to go to colleges and do workshops internally for your students One thing we could help you with this. We'll share all the presentations with you They're already available on the NPTEL website You can take it from us and we would encourage the SPOC's or anybody who knows our processes to actually You know organize your students into meetings and talk to them about the same We are putting a team together who might probably be able to help you in the future We're doing such programs for the students, but currently it's not in place once it is in place We will definitely let you know we would also like to come and interact with the students directly But currently such requests. I don't think we'll be able to accommodate We'd be more than happy to accommodate if you want to organize a workshop in your area that we have not done Say for the past two years if you can get about 30 40 colleges in your area that we could come in address okay We have sent you some posters and brochures regarding the new courses We have many many more available on the desk outside or with any of our office stuff We'd encourage you to put it up in places in your colleges where students frequent these places Maybe the canteens or the hostels or something so that they can at least look at it that there's something called NPTEL happening There's something called an online course happening and these dear titles are being offered Okay students enrollment has been emphasized kindly see to it that every student is enrolled to the course if they're not Enrolled to the course they will not be allowed to write the exam because the basic check we do when we open our exam registration form is is the Email ID of the student in that particular course then only we allow him to even write the exam So if he is you know enrolled to maybe two other courses and now wants to do the exam for a third course But he's not enrolled there. He will not be right to allow the exam for the third course So that is something you have to keep in mind when you want the students to take up our exam nations Yeah, this is something that we have been seeing the last two times that we have run exams There is a way in which we collect money from colleges for the exam registration fee in bulk That is y'all pay to us through a single DD or an F transfer or something and give us a list of students who are gonna Write the exams but we ask you in that only for the basic details of the students And then we send y'all recurrent males and the students reminding them to come to a form and fill out all the other details For instance, what we get from the SPOC when we ask them for a payment is just the name of the student Which course he wants to write the exam for exam date center and whether he's eligible for a scholarship We don't get the other details such as maybe the address that he wants to give maybe some contact number Mainly his photograph and signature that is something we absolutely Absolutely required for generating our hall tickets We have had many issues because students are not coming to our form before the last date when we need to share data with Our exam partner and get our hall tickets out. You might think it's a very trivial issue But for us and say 80 centers across India when they are checking the ID, there's a guy who goes there with just a name There's no photo there. Then how do you verify it against a photo ID, right? It doesn't make sense for us We've had cases in the past where two students are carrying a hall ticket Which carries the same details of name college roll number everything It's like one student has the same hall ticket of the other somehow this has been missed and only on that day They call us up and they ask us so the minute we send you all hall tickets We are uploading the zip folder of hall tickets as soon as we receive it from our exam partner inside your SPOC logins Students also can go separately and get all the hall tickets, but it's also there kindly check that all these details are there This time on we are going to start tightening up processes so far. We have kind of let anybody can write come without a hall ticket It's okay come without an ID. It's okay photos not there on the hall ticket It's okay. We've been pretty lenient in you know Just facilitating students from all the local chapters write exam so that that day they don't come and they don't get disappointed But I think we'll have to start tightening our security processes also because we want to ensure that these people who come and come with The correct papers and they write it so this time on if you're sending us data and you're doing bulk payments kindly ensure that your students Give us all the information much ahead of time and we have all these details For instance, we've generated certificates for the March and April exams and I think about 200 students still have not given us photographs And we've actually generated certificates without their photographs for them and sent it out to them We have sent about 8 to 10 reminders. We do keep reminding SPOC's we do keep reminding students But that's all that can be done. So kindly ensure that this happens You know the correct data supplied to us on time. That is something we'd like to emphasize Yes, the reporting of issues very important was kindly. Let us know the very next day after the exam So September 18th and 25th if we have exams running in that particular week Please write to NPTEL office about any issues that you have faced in the exam any discrepancies that were there either related to the question paper either related to the conduct of the exam the center Whatever we want that feedback from you. We do try to send our representatives to these centers But in the center when we go there are 300 students writing it's spread over five labs So we get a kind of broad overview of what happens there But not an in-depth of feedback of you know what each person has faced So kindly let us know about that we can actually work better on our processes also internally for the next time if you give us this feedback Yeah, one thing we'd like to mention here is for the mentoring this time We are kind of putting a cap that one faculty Member can be a mentor for only two courses. So when the SPOC is uploading the list of mentors Which is now currently open. Please ensure that you give us only one name for two courses not more than two courses And the number we are recommending is about one mentor for every 50 students who is there from your college Okay, we have put in some guidelines We have shared it with you in the printers that we've given it to you in the folders also regarding mentors We didn't have these in place last time They were more like suggestions, but these are more some things that we would seriously be looking into this time when we are giving out certificates for mentors, so we Suggest and recommend that mentors also be following the course and they submit assignments They give us weekly feedback on a portal on you know What were the contents of the course that particular week that is invaluable to us because that will go directly to the course Instructor who's giving the content, you know You all have faculty who are probably teaching that same course and the content makes sense to you So when y'all give us feedback about what is there we can directly share it with the faculty members so that's a critical component that we'd love to have from you and hear from you every week and Encourage students to complete the course register and make use of the VC sessions This is where information that once the local chapter colleges register with us and tell us that we have so many students with us You know coming as groups to your exams what we try to do is we try to get the faculty on board and have direct VC Sessions with you so we have done it in the past with the March and April courses We had I think about 10 12 sessions and this we did across Kanpur and Karakpur also the faculty from those institutes Also did this so this we would like to definitely encourage and have more of these on board So if you know even today that so many of maybe hundred from our students from my college are actually getting into this course And we plan for them to take the exam tell us during the run of the course Also, we could try to have some BC sessions so that we don't wait for the end But we could do it even during that and when we organize such things We'd encourage that you actually be there do the testing which is available ahead see that the connectivity and everything is okay So that you can get the maximum benefit from this kind of session That'll be a direct interaction between the students and the faculty That is something like a missing component in the online courses because everything else is offline there So this is something that we'd like to try and encourage Okay currently what is open on the portal if you all are SPOC's and are looking at students entering your courses for the July run We have opened request for an center in your city Okay request for an exam center in your city is open as a tab today in your SPOC login on the portal So if your city if your students are going to write exams this time in September October And it's not one of our listed cities kindly request for a city and give us some numbers so that we know What is the arrangement we need to make with our exam partner here? We are kind of saying a 10% elements this side that side but not more than that for instance Don't say find it students will write and finally end up with 50 because they will make the arrangements for find it students And then we get a 50. It's very hard for us to deal with that Okay, so kind of just get an idea of how many students you want right from your college request us for that again One thing we'd like to emphasize your many colleges are TCS Ion exam credit at centers One thing as a policy or something that we'd like to try is not give your own students Your own college as a center just to maintain the integrity of the exam if there's no other choice and other colleges Is too far of for some of the reasons they are not able to find out other centers We may do it in that case. We will send our representatives titan of processes Yes, but as a generic policy we will try to avoid when you all request for centers We will try for a college in your city close as close as possible to your college But probably not your own we have two people here. Mr. Rajesh Kumar and Mr. Mr. Rajesh and Mr. Ram Kumar here from TCS we get many requests from colleges saying how do we become an Exam center what should I do for that and all you can directly interact with them on that You can also ask them about yeah, will we get these dates? What are the colleges in my city? What are questions you have regarding any of these exam centers you can ask them? Yeah, we'll get them here Please So this is Mr. Ram Kumar. He's the manager who works on our project Who's kind of singly responsible wholly solely responsible for conduct of exams giving of our Centers results and all that and Mr. Rajesh is our local manager who works with us also in this So you can interact with both of them and clarify any questions that you have with regard to any TCS related issues here You want to say something She has spoken about us. No, we represent TCS and I take care of delivery of examinations This gentleman is the project manager for NPTES especially for this assessment So hopefully your students are you know people from your call people who represent from your respective colleges or institutions Would have had a pleasant experience. Maybe you can share your experience These are a place where we can also hear from you that you know, how did your students give feedback about a particular exam or so and Anything beyond that if you want to know that if you want to be a partner of an examination center or or anything else and or related to the examination process and things like that you are welcome to Ask and where he will you know give you the relevant answers to that? So we'll get on with this No, the questions will come later on I guess we're not giving you time now. So I have a lot more to say so Okay best practices we have put in some we'll share this PPT with you in the forum So probably you can go to it But anyway the next slot that we have is sharing of your own best practices within your college if you have implemented something So probably we'll skip this and go in for later Infrastructure recognition of SPOC is yes for the last turn we have done something wherein I think the certificates for the SPOC's and the mentors have gone out So this is something that we definitely can do every time regarding any other thing that we can support to recognize SPOC's and mentors that depends on the future on various factors. We will keep you informed of the same later on Okay, this was an interesting comparison we had put out in our NOC SPOC forum also I don't know how many of you had the time to go through it This was actually given by one of the SPOC's of Geetam University So he had said to saying that you know this is something that he thought could work for faculty who wanted to short term courses And so on as to why they could adapt or adopt NPTEL as a short term course that they have to do two per year or something he was giving us So there was something that we shared here that you can do it from your college You can put in the time the courses spread over two or three months rather than you know concentrated within a week And you have an exam and so on so there's something that we thought we'd project to faculty members of colleges of how they can use it as a short term course This has already been done. I guess Yeah, this is a major major request We have for all the SPOC's here and we are going to try and work on this because we hear from many sources Not formal actually informally through word of mouth or when we just meet random people We don't hear that our certificates are being used for instance We get these requests from companies saying can you verify if the student has done your course? And then we see that he's applied for mentorship in a company and cited our course saying that he's done it And he has a certificate in that then there's somebody else who writes that I got a job change or something Can you verify that and he's shown some certificates? But in a formal basis we haven't had anything which we can put up on our website and say at least some success stories of having run So many courses, you know, how have people benefited? So that is something we Definitely want from the SPOC's of colleges if you'll have any stories to share that these certificates help your students in placements or Internships or how it helped the faculty members whether y'all benefited directly indirectly from doing our certification courses If you are if you're living doing credit transfer for instance the three colleges We told you incidentally we came to know about it But probably many more of you are doing it or giving it on your transcript or something like that We definitely want to know at least that for data points, you know When we want to tell people saying how these are being used it would be an invaluable feedback So if you can either tell it to us today or send us an email or send us a letter from your head or on some letter head We could put it up on a portal and say, you know, these are ways in which colleges are using our online courses Okay, this is very specific admin stuff that I want to say for the current run I'll run through it a little quickly I know we've been talking for quite too long without letting any of you talk and you all have been just listening But we're sorry for that. We'll next will be your slot where we will sit and listen so scholarship yes this time we have very limited number of scholarships because We still haven't heard a confirmation from our company partner who has been giving us money for the scholarships So we have a limited amount We haven't come up on a criteria of how we are going to distribute the scholarship because we do not know the numbers that we are Going to receive for instance last time for the March run We actually got request for 18,000 scholarships and about 5,000 we couldn't match the email ID So the only criterion we had then was we were checking the portal to see the students were at least in the course and About 5,000 were not there. There was some typo or mismatch in the email IDs 13,000 of them We actually approved scholarships. So we had that kind of money then we are not too sure about the numbers Which will come in now because the number of local chapters have gone up and if more people are gonna request as we wouldn't know So some criteria will come up based on that and we let you know on the group as and when we kind of do it One thing to the SPOC is when you'll upload the list for scholarship Please give the correct email ID of the student faculty member Whoever is from your college who you want to avail the scholarship as Enrolled in the portal because the check we do is we take out the list of enrollees for every course from the portal And that will have the email ID. You'll miss out a dot. You'll miss out a dash You'll miss out an A, B, C, whatever or it's totally different He enrolls there using a Gmail gives you an institute ID. We are not going to match it up We just have an automated process. We compared this sheet with the other. We say yes. No. Yes. No So some SPOCs have come and asked us why did you give some people? I applied for 300 you gave for 250 50 of them Didn't get what was the criteria? No criteria. We did last time except for check for email ID So the email IDs had some problem. It wouldn't have matched and we wouldn't have approved it So when you'll upload the list kindly check that whatever email IDs you're giving have no typos And they're exactly the email ID students have used to enroll to the courses for which you are requesting for scholarships So this is something that you need to keep in mind Exam fee payment. Okay. This is something we are really happy about and we want to share it with you So one thing is you all saw the numbers there right about 8,000 people from the last turn The colleges had come up with paying through a DD payment or a bulk payment the idea between You know idea for introducing this bulk payment was we didn't have this till Maybe last year come a or July exam time I think so what happened that time was there were colleges which said we don't have bank accounts for students and they can't pay online So then we said okay do this bulk payment option But some of the last two runs we found out that the SPOC and the college team kind of gets caught up in this whole process Of getting students together collecting money from them giving it to us giving details and all that and the focus moves from Actually Ensuring that the student is learning from the course doing the assignments and actually being there to this administrative tasks So then we again with thinking this is not what we want I mean we wanted to facilitate bulk payment for people who definitely do not have bank accounts And you want to do it for them for those students helping out those students but safe Chennai colleges We are looking at I guess most of somebody their parents uncle's friends Somebody should be having a bank account with a credit card debit card So we would rather discourage them to go in for bulk payment and ask them to go to the form pay online on their own Now that on the portal we have this local chapter tracking right we can tell you who's the student from your college was paid it So that should be possible. So one thing this time we would actually want to stress specifically is And another thing we'd want to say is we are not going to recognize any college based on the bulk payment Amounts that we are getting or the number of students It is only the total number of students as president was saying it is a performance of the students that we are recognizing So whether you all give 300 students all of them paying on their own or you give a DD or they do something else It doesn't matter to us. So that is not going to be a factor when we are going to recognize you on the portal Okay, and this time what we have implemented is we are doing a cash collect We have done that in form is integrated with the bank account So what students can do it even if he doesn't have a bank account. He comes to our form fills the form He goes to the payment gateway there It'll say do you want to avail a cash option if he says yes It'll generate a chalan and in the chalan he can take it to the bank pay in cash there and actually do it We will reconcile the amount So now there is even no requirement for the student to have a bank account He can pay through cash using the chalan facility that we have introduced So we recommend that they spears he actually with his team work more on students learning and benefiting from the course Yes, please do it if you have an easy process in place Maybe you have an NPTEL counter somewhere students just come and pay that's easy for you. Yes Go ahead and do it. We are welcome and very happy to get DDs and checks from you in bulk We are also happy saying oh six lakhs today one check came three lakhs a check came Yes, they're really happy when we see that that's so many students have come in But if it's really tiresome for you and you're saying my god is such a pain to be an SPOC of an NPTEL local chapter Because of these tasks, this is something that you couldn't use today use the cash pay in facility use the Ask the students who have bank accounts encourage them to do the payment on their own the other advantage here We see is when they come to a form by force They will fill up all the details of the form and then only go to the payment. We will get his photo We will get a signature. We'll get all his details And we don't have to be behind them to get the other details that we normally don't get when they do A bulk payment. Okay, so this is something that is that we will also put it out in the form Yes, there's pure see mentors the mentors tab is open in your SPOC login So please start filling out your mentor tabs there Tell us who are the mentors for the courses in your college request for the exam city the next steps Which will start coming in the next three four weeks when the course starts is you'll upload the request for scholarship We will process it. It will take some time We'll process give it back to you if you're doing a bulk payment upload the list for that and Other two tabs that are there inside your SPOC login are request for a course If any of your colleges want to request for courses that you want seen run on NPTEL as an online course Please put in your request there even with maybe some syllabus or anything that you want applicable to and A feedback is also there if you could give us periodic feedback That will also be great. We'll take that into account as in when we use it Information given by NPTEL office inside the SPOC login. This is what people have not seen it We've done it prior to or for the new chapters that are coming in one is as soon as the hall tickets come in We put a zip folder off the hall tickets of all the candidates writing from your college inside your login So if somebody is not able to download not able to print You will have the complete list of the hall tickets of all the students who are writing the exam from your college The second one what we do once the marks the results are announced We give the mark sheet of the students each student who has written the exam from your college The zip is again put inside your SPOC login We will share the raw scores of the assignments and the exams code that the student has gotten So that will be something that will be available to you in your SPOC login The third one is a e-certificates once we generate the e-certificates for your students the soft copies We zip that up put it inside your SPOC login again for your use if you want to put it up somewhere or give it to the students Then the soft copies a mentor and SPOC certificates. So all these so you can see how many tasks We are actually putting inside the SPOC and SPOC login There are many things in which you'll interact with us through email through your login phone It definitely come in person. That's all there But there are multiple things wherein we'll keep on working with you constantly through the run of the course even after the course is over It keeps on going the interactions between you and us kind of never stop. So you can see that what happens here There is a new feature on the local chapter website again There's in response to many SPOC saying that you know I get hundred emails a day I lose out the important announcements We have created a tab called announcements forum on our local chapter website people have not been there kindly Just check that out Currently we don't have any posts there, but all important posts that we want to push out to the SPOC's will be available here So if you think you don't want to check your email and you're missing out post come here All are important date lines what we want you done our timelines everything will come out here The other thing that we have done is that NOC SPOC Google group We have embedded as a forum inside your SPOC login. So this is a public thing visible to anybody It's a public on the web So this is just announcements from our side But the actual discussion that we do on the email right that we have embedded as a forum But that is available only when you log into the website inside your SPOC logins. So these are two recent changes that we have done I think I'm done with the PT Okay, I just wanted to say that some of them are asking about hard disks that you possibly sent us for copying We have a person called Nagarajan here Nagarajan. Are you here anywhere? Yeah, Nagarajan there. You can contact any of our team But specifically he's the one who handles the hard disk copying if you want any status updates about your hard disk He'll be the person that you can ask and check out about the hard disk and Morning I did this announcement I'll repeat it because many were not present at that time if any of the colleges have to collect certificates from us for the May April exams the bulk certificates are with us in our office kindly come there and please collect it from us After the lunch, we'll be giving you the same so our team will be here Okay, so I thought maybe a little bit more organized about the feedback where it looks like it's just open so So when do you want to do the staff introduction? All right, so what we want to do is Yes, okay, so maybe the NPTEL staff was standing all over the place could come to this side So after the feedback session, we'll have we'll introduce some of our staff to you just so that you can see some people who you interact with Okay So now what what we'd like to do is to throw the floor open to Local chapters here. So many of you have been with us for a long time. We've been quite active. You produce toppers So, you know who the colleges are so maybe maybe I'll start with The toppers list that we had NEC coil pretty I think was people if somebody from there can Come in and share a few experiences as to what you do I think what is important is to tell people about what your practices are. What what do you do as an SPOC? Etc. Introduce yourself briefly and yes Good afternoon myself Camillus from National Engineering College Last time we have a nice experience with our students mostly we have more than thousand students have been registered for the courses and at most 600 have written for March run and 200 plus has been written for April and yet to we have to receive the results related with the April run, but for March run 40 toppers that is more than 90 marks. We have been secured and to to our own faculty members done introduction to research and most of the students are done in English a technical English and they have secured more than 90 and Related with the feedbacks from the students they go to have a given with a good feedback Related with the courses what it has been offered in the NPTEL and And we form one Google form Related with the collection of information related from students and that Google form will be has been useful that What are the details that we have been asking with NPTEL and NPTEL has been asking with us and that Information has been updated in the Google form and so that whatever the details They have been asking we have been able to give and what are the details? They have been asking we can able to get it from the students now also we framed a Google form for the registration process And so automatically whatever the information they have been updating is been updated in our Google form and Back and we have been collecting and the same information has been updated with us because the last two experience We have faced the problem with the Email ID and so most of the students have been lost the scholarship because of that And so we framed this topic Getting their updation with the Google form so that there will be error-free statement in their names and their email ID So this process has been going on and we started this process by last registration that is exam time registration, so whatever the students they have been registering and That has been registered with us too So what are the students who have been registered and not registered these information we have been getting at the back end So this is the way we have been tracking with the students and yet another we have a lot of Feedbacks from our side The certificates related with less than 35 at this time the marks was been printed and so the certificate will not be useful for Such students so supposed to be if it is successfully completed and the marks is not been displayed They can use it for any other purposes So that that is one side feedback from our students The rest we are have some of our administrative difficulties and that we can discuss All right, so I think the new policy is to not to give any certificate for people who are less than 40 So this is a change you might want to tell your students that for about 40 you give a certificate and marks will be printed I think that is the decision our committee took it's it's not in it's not in my hands You know that there's a committee which runs these certification exams and they they make these decisions Yes, let's hear from Dronacharya. Maybe I think they've come from far Dronacharya College of Engineering is again the next college which produce a lot of topics Very good afternoon to all of you. I am Prachi Agrawal and We basically have two colleges sir one in Gurgaon one in Greater Noida So I represent the Greater Noida campus. I have my colleagues from Gurgaon as well Ashu ma'am and I don't know your name. I'm sorry So I think the success remains the same as Andrew sir very aptly said that getting to the crux of the course and then probably Getting the faculty understand the the contents of the course and then probably Diluting the students towards the same so that they understand what exactly is in sight You know that that course material rest I am sure little secrets could be shared by my colleagues in Gurgaon So probably I'm not sure if they want to share something of how the success stories go there Very good afternoon to all of you. Firstly, I want to say thank you Thanks to napdal team due to which students learn a lot of good things secondly Last time 500 students from our colleges registered Last time 500 students from our college registered in various courses various courses and out of which 40 students are in Topper list and more than 100 student got the above 80% scores Mainly problem with student face from the last time is that assignment pattern is different than the question patterns last at the last moment students got the mail that Assign your question paper is offline and that is very difficult to them at that as Students prepared according to the assignment during the course But at the last time student got the question papers offline that is very difficult for them So if it is possible that if is it possible if it is possible for you Please mention in from the starting of the course the types of the question paper pattern of the question paper I think the faculty here also heard it We've been asking faculty for question paper type and I know mother one had something very interesting to tell So it's very hard for our faculty to mention what kind of exam they want in the beginning We will try to make that better But I think the other thing is we are telling our faculty is to have a significant fraction of questions from assignments Used in the exam also. So so that it's so very important What's very important is for your students to do the assignments well, okay? 100% important if they do that then the questions in the exam are going to be similar to the assignments So it's not just for the 25% marks for most of the 75% also you have to do the assignment very very important Okay, so you heard from two people who have been very actively working So one thing I think so on a weekly basis Do you have a separate time when they watch the videos or do they just you just let them do it on their own? Do you organize it for them or you don't do you do anything like that? Okay, you organize some extra lectures or something in any seed you have Okay Okay They will be collecting the information from one system You will download all the lectures and put it in one server one server and they will be collecting the information and they will be accessing From wherever they are, okay, so they can come to that mission physically and then download those lectures if they want, okay? So something like that Okay, so Kumara Guru College Kumara Guru is there anyone from Kumara Guru? Yeah, okay I'm Rafiq. I'm the department of mechatronics engineering Technology as you already told first. I did the course sir. I started the course Infacting system technology. I got 88 marks 88 percentage as the top are in that course after getting the top or it is published in the department of this boards Then these people are got their information that there is a NPTEL online certification courses that I I started my principal to use these courses in my college after that Please publish that only two top was But the but it is a 10th opposite my college 10 top was in your college. Oh, very good. Okay. We started we started the NPTEL local chapter in the month of February only But we got active at the college participation Recently at the same time we are publishing the top was list in the notice boards as well as we are Creating the mentors what's up group as well? This in this course and we are going to create the what's up mentors group as well at the same time. We are going to create more number of More number of top was in this question. We are looking for that This in this time we my aim is to produce 25 top was 25 top was Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much for a NPTEL team for your con consistent support as well as guidance, thank you Okay, yeah So I guess the other thing that about these pointing out is in case you any of your colleges are using it for credit internally Okay, please that's also a thing that you can share now Okay, so I think another college. I would like to hear is from Kamaraj College Yeah, sure In my college the faculty members has to go anyone move course certification course. We already know Oh, you have to do it. Yeah. Yeah, we have to do it at the same time We already know that there are more courses certification process are there in course that are edX Are also there but in that courses we have to spend 29 29 years dollars that is around 1900 and 900 rupees we have to spend as the same time it is here introduction in course means 1900 we have to spend it is here advanced or intermediate level means we have to spend 49 US dollars but in the input it is It is easy to get the certificates at at the same time we are getting from the IITs means it is More valuable for us At the same time the faculty members has to get so not only the certification There if you we get the top us means it is a national level recognition we are getting for the faculty members. I Want to say something if we my evaluation process is so strict if the people from the Students can't get Easily marks. So the people the students will tell he is not teaching well like that He you don't know the concepts as well. I like that. They will they will tell But the thing is that if you show the certificate, I have the concepts already. I have the concepts good like that means No, no one will question us. This is also a good thing to do. Okay. Good So you're saying really I mean students like students also recognize faculty who have these certificates is what is that's great Yeah, maybe comrades. Yeah, I think you can focus on if you're giving credit for these colleges Many of you may be affiliated to Anna University or something maybe they can Yeah, if it helps in your placements or anything like that was also good to hear was that people have these questions in their minds as well Yeah, sure I am Dr. K. Muthulakshmi associate professor triplet department comrades College of Engineering College I took in charge as a SPOC This semester only before the doctor is Naag Lakshmi was there So in in this semester more than 300 400 students enrolled and we got scholarship for 290 students and 130 students have registered Seven students got I think the number shown is five I think it's number seven including the April 2,000 in top us especially the subject electromagnetic theory and finite element Elemental resist in the mechanical department and technical English for engineers even the first-year students even the first-year students enroll for technical English and got ranked and One thing I have to mention that in our college More than sorry out of seven five faculty members got a light-plus gold five faculty members got a light-plus gold and They sit with the students the faculty members sit with the students and they solve the assignments and our management and our principals are encouraged my set that is SPOC to Enroll more students and participation is Important that Encouragement from the principal service more for getting this activity and Are you participating in the forum? Do you ask questions in the forum? No? No, we are not because As madam Bharathi mentioned we have continued we are getting males more than 50 males every day We are to concentrate not in the SPOC forum. I'm in the course forum Faculty members I was so ends a enroll for electromagnetic theory, but I'm not able to solve assignment Because I have to collect the details from the department coordinators and I have to upload the details I don't find uploading the data any difficulty in uploading the data or nothing else, but I have to collect the data that that Face difference difficulty, but you have introduced one Think you know the student roll number college. So that will be easy for me You can also use the Google form idea that they are using so that students can enter the information Students not entering the difficulty I can and I'm very happy and proud to be a part of NPTEL. Okay. Thank you. Thank you Anybody else? Yeah, sure Hello, everybody. I am the SPOC from Pondicherry Engineering College V. Vijay Lakshmi So first of all, I could like to applaud the NPTEL team for the fabulous work, which they have been carrying out Such a wonderful work because they get about 50 males every day and the power with in which they I see with them is Instant incidentally within a few seconds. I get back Answer to my query. So that is it. So they have been doing such a wonderful work I don't know how they are doing the database management for about six plus lakhs of students Is it is it not and how they are managing the queries from? 500 Institutes a 500 local chapter and Pondicherry Engineering College entered into as a local chapter only from this year January 2016 and we have got about 600 students registered this time out of which 329 students took up their examination and We have got about six rank holders. That is a light plus gold and one student Narendra And he scored about 99 marks in data structures and algorithms. That is how I think the faculty members to say about it so and About the credit which you were asking of we are an autonomous institution So we have got apart from our regular curriculum the professional development courses for these students Are mainly being Taken up as a very important course because they have to update themselves so these professional development courses are these courses like the NPTEL certification courses, etc and We have actually taken up the 20 course as one credit course and the 40 courses certification courses as two credit Courses, so in that way we encourage them to take up your courses Okay, and that is the first point which I wanted to tell you people and I could really like to thank your Faculty research person over here say they have taken so much of pains in Presenting those videos which our students really enjoyed we also enjoy together and we have lots of discussion in the forum with them and One more thing is that certain limitations which I wanted to point out a lot Limitation like what I feel is that when we have a direct conversation with you people in the studio Why is it your audio too low? Is it do you have some attenuation of the signal level? Through the phone I'm talking about just calling us on the phone. Yes. Yes all the time the other end We never receive your voice Just find out why is it landline the landline number and I think one of the colleague from Gurgaon already pointed about the question paper that was a problem So if you could make it available after the end of every course and the other main problem Which we faced that normally you say 18th July like you say this the last date for registration of a particular course Then after that you give an extension for the registration I think most of the SPOC could have faced this but the course start before that So the students who are registered registering late will be have will have a problem in catching up with the assignments So if you could solve that for us Yeah, so that's why we are stopping enrollment this time on July 18th, but you know what will happen You know what will happen the faculty here There will be a mail from some student to a faculty member who's teaching the course Desperately saying I really have to do your course and then the faculty will forward that mail to us So we really have no choice. You know at that point. He said, okay, okay enrollment extended They want more day or something so that so there are factors beyond our control But yeah, that's a that's good feedback. We've tried to do it this time. Will we stick to July 18? Yes, apparently we are going to stick to July 18 If we stick to July 18, then there's no problem But one more issue I'll point out some of the colleges across the country do not open by July 15th or 20th apparently I think in the south we open mostly I think some places West Bengal apparently Yeah, so in Kerala, it's August 1st So we've been you know, we are fighting this a lot, but it's very hard when you go across the country There's no common timetable that anybody follows. It's impossible to follow You know Bengal for instance, everybody is out for like one month in October Pooja, etc. So things like that come in in the middle. So it's very hard to have one calendar We will try this time to stick to July 18th. Maybe let's see Separate Excel sheet for one Excel sheet is for Excel sheet is during for the registration of the examination. So these Yeah, these two Excel sheets are different quite in the other the data entry if you make out one Excel sheet for us Then for the students who are not registering for the examination Probably we can delete out the names and just forward it. Otherwise it becomes mandatory like Preparing to Excel sheet separately becomes very cumbersome for us Thanks a lot Thank you. That's very comprehensive feedback. Thank you Anyone else who has maybe used it so extensively as somebody In the back Yeah, I just hold on one minute. It's not I'm SPOC from SSN College of Engineering. I have two more suggestions Some of the PPTs can be uploaded in the local chapter that can be presented in the classroom itself by the class teacher That will be more benefited by the students I'm sorry, just didn't understand the presentation that we are making I mean, okay, so the presentation that we make the slides that you want How to how to do enrollment how to do these things Sure There is a entry You are saying that the drop-offs. Yes, college name is there. Yes when college name is included That's will be repeated in the local chapter of log in spoke log in that will be more benefit Students enrolled. Yeah, suppose five students or ten students or maybe when they are enrolled that will be reflected in the SPOC login itself so that we can know more how many students without conducting students That is the plan we have introduced it now. We'll add that. Yes Thank you I think there was a person Good afternoon. I am SPOC from a coastal engineering college Only we started only from this semester January 2016 So we thought of it should be purely student centric because we are from so soon, right? So we have to check however students are so we left out as it is they have to taken by themselves But anyhow the number of enrollments are good Even our students registered around 500 But due to our academic schedule, they I think they didn't do as they are So this is our feedback so we Felt like that and even we secured a six gold medal that to from only from technical English Nothing known is received from core site really We are shamed for that So but we have to work so from now and also we felt that From SPOC login now we have a right to check the statistics of our students even in intermediate, right? so here Statistics Performance statistics we can check Now we have a Forum for that so we can even give a trigger that is essential for our students that we know so We have to aim for higher Really we have to appreciate and NPTL to share you are all the coordinators to share their Valuable Outcomes to our students really we are happy and I should be very proud to be the part of this Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much Just to clarify the mentors can see the progress of the students not directly in SPOC the mentors who are registered for the course can see Sir mentor side means whether our students can because in the previous Previous semester, it's like our students can take any mentor throat Our students are very brilliant So Yeah, so we'll work on that we can talk about it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much Sir, I am Biju Dharma Balan. I'm SPOC of Marathineshya College for Advanced Studies Thiruvallam Actually, we started this local chapter last year, but unfortunately Apart from myself our students couldn't register for the exam because it was overlapping with the university exam So one of the suggestions I have is if we could give two or three Exam days or for the students it would be useful another thing is if somebody Disqualifies who didn't get a minimum marks. There should be a second supplementary exam So that the students Okay, so just to reiterate our exams are on two Sundays two consecutive Sundays in the afternoon Okay, that's where our exams are. It's really hard to do more exams than that. So that problem is Some of the Sundays we have allowed to Kerala, especially our I'm from biological science. It is in very remote place So the center I I participate So centers. Yeah, I will give the city name the exact center and the city is chosen by Because the center it is given as it is given as coaching I know the college is very far without any what you call public transport conveyance There is no what you call a restaurants for taking food nothing. No facility was there. So it was a terrific Center because I myself participated in that Feedback that you have to give after the exam, you know very important And we have to give it back to them and they have to figure out what the centers are and then sender itself But there was a lot of noise from the air conditioning and they are not willing to switch off that So I mean, please please keep this in mind. It's very important for us to hear this feedback about the exam Another thing is in biological science course, which I took the audio This player clear. It was not clear. Okay, no video video is good But the audio output was for the course lectures. Yeah, okay So this is another thing which the SPOC login has I think even the mentor login has Every mentor can give feedback on every week's content Okay So if you log in into that local chapter if you go to NPTEL dot ac dot in slash local chapter and you log in as a mentor You can give feedback on lectures every week Okay, and that feedback we will faithfully take it into give it to our studio people give it to our faculty It can be any kind of feedback. You can say this week's content was very advanced Our students could not follow what were the exact difficulties that level of feedback You can give and in fact, I would I would say very frankly, I think that that part is being underutilized by mentors Okay, as a mentor if you're tracking the course very closely with your students, please go and use that forum to give us feedback Okay, so that will help a lot this kind of thing can be pointed out like in the first week of the course So we'll be happy to take it But please please give us that feedback because it's very hard sometimes to figure out what this yeah this gentleman there Okay I am pro-selven from Sri Ramakrishna in College Coimbatore. I am representing in the form of students I've asked that they want one more day for the examination dates three three days because this year that is we have started in the year 2016 February in our local chapter in Casey in SRCZ, but unfortunately Nearly around five eighty-nine students have registered for the examination Both days comes fall under the examinators of our students. They are not able to write the examinations So they are asking one more day Instead of two days, they are asking one more day in addition to that some of the students they have studied in the IIT's Now they are studying M Tech in our college. They want a full scholarship. That is a thousand rupees hundred No fee because what they have studied in IIT's either IIT medros or IIT hydra back They are asking that and also some students of Some other right lawyer category a CST. They are asking a full way for the examination fees This is the request from the students side. I am representing for that. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. I am thanking you all the NPTEL members It's a very good opportunity for the students and all the faculty members utilize their Benefits from the NPTEL NPTEL team. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There are six faculty here You know if I ask them three question papers, all of them will run away Anyway, I mean that's good feedback But I think the September exams are much better that way I think the main exams tend to be very close to the university exams We try our best to manage. We will keep trying. Thank you Hello My self is Dr. Malikarjun Angarge working for Karnataka Arts and Science income Actually, we have joined NPTEL in the last semester only only 45 students have been joined the course But unfortunately our students have not performed well But anyway that awareness regarding the NPTEL courses actually our colleges located in a remote place and Just I asked Bharti madam that around 300 colleges are affiliated to Gulbara University Kalu Brugge, it is in Karnataka State So what I would like to ask you that Suppose the NPTEL team if you are ready to come to that area or at least from the through the universities If you are trying to reach the traditional colleges, of course, I am seeing here almost all they are belongs to the engineering colleges I am belongs to a traditional Arts and Science Commerce College But we have introduced this course in the last semester and four student have successfully completed the course among 40 43 So my intention is please either you have to permit us to make an awareness camp in our college By calling all the traditional degree colleges those who are at least they should know what exactly these courses and These are very important courses. We are very thankful to the NPTEL team You're taking a lot of effort and you have reduced the lot of gap and expert teacher you are bringing to the rural areas So this is actually an image already vision what I learned it and we are very happy to say that That IT Mumbai has recognized our colleges and a super center for running the first courses We are running very successfully that around 700 students have passed very with high percentage like that that is But that is different. We are only with computer science things are going on But in generally if you want to reach in all the subjects this Workshop is that courses are very very helpful Please either permit us to conduct one organized one workshop there If with your support then it is possible to reach all the rural area colleges. Thank you Please make a request to NPTEL at ITM. We will we will definitely consider it Yes, I am Pradeep Kutta from Veltek high-tech engineering college SBOC. I Have three queries first one exam dates are fine. All exams are falling on Sundays. It's very much Helpful to students but exam timings two to five. It's odd timing. So can you change it to ten to one? It will be useful because after five o'clock girl students reaching from last time TCS Karapakkam is a exam center reaching back to home. Really. They took two hours and the traffic Eight o'clock they reach home. There was so next time Girl students may not come across to write such exams So ten to one is a My session and second one as Pondicherry College madam told Excel sheet Date of birth format is not a DDMM yyy. It's a MM DD yyy yy month date and year So students obviously if you ask data birth they will write in a date month we are format once I do that In the scholarship needs to their name won't come. It won't match that that's first thing and Okay, sure and excel sheet one more thing Let us take example language and mine is a course name if I type language and mine in capital letters and upload the Excel sheet it shows a row row number 13 error Because as in the excel what courses they have given exactly I have to copy and paste if I give Capitals or a small letter it won't take I have to copy and paste every time so little Visibility good should be given for these two. Thank you. Sure. Thank you Yes, hello, sir. Yeah, just a remark about the exam time so two to five We Came to after a lot of thought because some people travel from say Pondicherry to Chennai sometime to write the exam So it's harder for them if they do 10 a.m. In the morning, so two to five I think this day and age 5 p.m. Is not too late. You're saying, okay, so maybe from there all the way to already We'll look at it Myself Ganesh Prabhu from Coimbatore Sri Krishna College of Technology, sir We had a great experience last semester. We started with last semester only. I mean from January 2016 and for SPOC for mentor to settle down with the responsibility it takes some time for me So we are not in the table actually That's what I'm pointing out. But definitely in the next coming. We hope we will have Topper we try for a top and none of the thing is the timing and all I will accept the exam timing. Okay Especially day Sundays, okay, but we can plan for a December month or May month Totally that month will be a vacation month for the student. So when we have a two couple of days Optional days for during that month and a semester wise it is very useful for them to sit and study before exam Because other than that they will having a lot of commitment in our in our institution We are having internal competent for 40 marks So it is very well dumped at the students are so hopefully if we have a in these two month They are in vacation they can utilize properly and they can get good marks also Other than the timing and everything it is good. Okay, and another one-month thing From the student point of view Whenever we say it is a free of free for learning and we will give the space for learning everything NPTEL is doing great thing free for taking a course in a free is a very great thing but While they come for a examination while they approaching for the examination thousand rupees 1200 like they are they are talking they are discussing like that. So If possible we can reduce dues to some other we can reduce from their point of aim talking So they feel it is a huge amount everything is free, but for examination. That's why they are date not taking up the examination So this point I want to convey to you if possible Do for a favor for the students and really appreciating for the NPTEL team When I am studying I am not having this facility. I feel now Very bad. So thank you very much. Yes Hello, this is Rajesh from Krakati Engineering College, Kakinada. So I have two requests One is after the course examinations are done Some Google docs have been being created to showcase the evaluation criteria of each subject so that also not to give the track of when the certificates are being released and when the marks are being shown all that Procedure is fine, but the evaluation criteria is changing from subject to subject I suppose. So that has to be informed to the students before the start or at least in the first week So that if they miss one or two assignments, they don't feel that the course is gone or the subject is gone So better to be informed earlier and second thing is regarding the active status for the colleges You have been appreciating the spark in the form of certificate But if it is possible to give a certificate in the name of the college Also, so that if you get to the college, yeah, instead of appreciation to the name of the person Anyway, spark requires a certificate in addition to that if College is being given with a certificate so that can be shown as a achievement of the college also Thank you, sir. Thank you. So one thing that nobody says is you know when the feedback for you know the kind of Teaching what kind of lectures are good? What kind of lecture? So I guess that is universally good. You're all very happy You have no feedback on this can be done that can be done Which is which is nice to see but also all these processes. I mean we are processing when we are noting it down Some of these processes are hard for us to change. Hopefully you will understand so dates for the exam and all that if We have exam in December our next run of courses start in January It's it's more or less impossible for us to get back into ship So and they're also December there are several universities which have exams in December's you just look across the country you'll see So it's very hard to change some of these things. We'll try our best. Just please please be understanding of that Whatever we can change will definitely change Pradeep Kumar from VIT University Chennai campus. So as you asked we are this this year onwards last year onwards We introduced a new curriculum. So in that curriculum, we have two credits for the MOOC So the students can go register elsewhere. They bring the certificate. They get the two credits But the demand is 30 hours lecture, but here you mentioned as 20 hours as two credits But our requirement is 30 hours to credits. You also have a 30 hours version. Yeah, it's obvious So obviously you can have that also and also we faculty members have a performance incentive So we have to have innovative teaching methods. That means for what kind of innovative methods you follow this This year for getting your incentive. So usually what we do is what I do personally is I just Endrolled for a course so far. I never seen any Python course even I have requested also in the request form that we need a Python course I mean actually Madhavan sir is taking now So I am going to handle Python code this semester along with my 60 students So he asked every one of us to enroll and we have a good participation. So in that context, I have some innovative things So thank you sir. One more query is since you announced the course on first June that you can enroll some of our students have already in the process of Enrolling now the mentors are giving their names now only so we are going to give the mentors list to you But shall there's already enrolled students can they be enrolled under their mentor? Yeah, yeah students can go to their profile progress page and so mentor page There'll be a mentor tab that will come they can pick mentor any time. Okay. Thank you, sir They can also remove the mentor Good afternoon, sir. I am Dr. Anbucharian Spock Valemi engineering college. Yes, Aram Nagar in our college. We have started in the last July 2015 to Father up to this for July 2015 to October our college secured five ranks Topper five top us and then for this time March goes I think nine top us in March course nine top us And then two in April goes so totally 11 top us from our college So in what we are following the online course certification online We give full freedom to the students to learn the courses in everywhere The accessibility is possible for students for hostel and why five is it is there in our college? The digital library the student easy to assess so for preparation is fully the student interest Those who are securing the top are we discussed with the top us the courses are very nice The professors are explained very well and for soaring scoring the low mark Somewhat the students told is a difficult to understand Sometimes the appropriation the uninvited examination told and then for I'm also get the certificate from Spock received the certificate one of the courses physics of material. Oh, okay. I Secured 61 mark but difficult to Score because the assignment only 50% from assignment and most of the questions are standard questions already discussed with the sir and this time we purchased the book written by sir, it's a very nice book and Very good feedback from our faculty members and the faculty also told that the lectures are very very useful sir for particularly for introduction research in our college 63 Stop and the students are totally enrolled. So this is a credit NPTEL So mostly in any commission in any we ought to represent the NPTEL unknown courses Most totally four hundred students are certified from our colleagues. So this is the With the help of the NPTEL we achieved all these things and then for for last time the Place I will discuss the wrong ones are for uploading and the Submission of the answer. So I will discuss with this. Okay. Sure. Thank you very much, sir And one more request is for mentor 50 students for mentor. So he said possible to reduce 50 students per mentor. Oh, that's the upper limit. You can have less than that. No, okay Thank you, sir. Hello, sir. I'm Ratan Kumar from Arbadev Institute of Technology So these NPTEL online courses is very flexible. I had a kindly stick to that flexibility policy Don't restrict it because the academic schedule throughout the India is very difficult. Like some staff said restricted To one date and all please don't do that Because opening and closing closing time of colleges varies So because of this flexibility only last time because of floods many Chennai colleges could not participate in this thing So I would request to maintain that It's a personal request and NPTEL was like always whenever we get a new subject We don't we are not able to buy books of a very high cost You go for NPTEL notes whether it is my first experience was wind energy conversion systems. It was the IIT Kharagpur Dr. Banerjee, I suppose I don't remember the name exactly still I have that nine videos Which I still I follow for that subject and all now it is PsyLab and I have downloaded this PsyLab NPTEL videos so all these things are there but the flexibility should always be maintained and dates Timings are comfortable, but dates we can have it like Preferably like in the month of November and December Thank you. Thank you Time-wise maybe we can take Two or three more we can take after that we'll go for lunch. Yes I am Dr. Shoshu Brahmaniam the lunch me college of engineering the first I conjured for the entire team so my question is Suppose it's a engineering is a four years course. I talk about the engineering So two years will be studying for the core later and next to two years is a advanced oriented. It is a industry oriented I think that some of the project will be added means very useful for the I Want NPTEL projects Possible means added. You learn like courses. Thank you Thank you. Good afternoon, sir. I am Madhu, SBOC from Sir my request is Many students are required requesting courses and softwares the software which are Nowadays HFSS math lab lab view They are asking the tools courses if possible Some students are asking us embedded system courses in edx edx the embedded system shape the world Their courses are like that those courses are very useful to enter the industries like that courses they are asking from the students and Students last time we faced a lot of problems Gathering the data how many students are and Restore how many students are interested to reach of the exam for that to make the simplicity we designed a website in our college college website. We are NPTEL local chapter is designed in that we are given complete information our department coordinator names and if the student wants to restore Registration login registration will be there if you want to update us of scholarship everything is there 10 hours courses if possible just Open that sir. I will show everyone Yeah, what the one college? Oh my god. So really what the one just type for the one I can show You're running out of time. So anyway, since you're asking we'll do once What the month Did I get it right? I don't know. DHA MN Huh? So you have a webpage for your local. Yes. Yes, you maintain everything In the left side NPTEL local chapter is there. Oh Okay, yes here and Local chapter in most in notification no local to me it will go to the local chapter website In most notification click there sir in that we are given complete 10 hours courses 20 hours courses if you are student wants a coast list enrollment scholarships Everything will be there only if you can get that are complete information on that and Department coordinators in when events through a subject mentors. We have to give the subject mentor list also, sir That's why you given there. Okay subject mentors and Videos we are not in the NPTEL videos there Okay, like that even just speak the event sir. We are having the Or NPTEL workshop on July 9th. Oh, yeah, July 9th. We are having the until workshop Okay, that's Very nice. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, we'll do one more and then we'll stop. Yeah Graphan, this is modern from SRM University. I'm up and Basically both the success and for NPTEL I was involved in initially with a NEC also starting and then Initiated thing and then now SRM How to sucks be successful for this NAPTEL is Yeah, only the faculties have to take forward once the faculty have to take it because they have to have the confidence that yes It's really thing as such so in SRM group. We are what we have done is we've asked all the faculty to do it There'll be always a little opposition thousand rupees and thing then we ask the management over the top score us the management will refund the Thing Wow We have our eligibility 75% the management will refund the certification course just to give an encouragement For the faculty to do is because they should be the one who should say yes This course is really useful because one person cannot tell everyone Another thing is you can involve the placement officers each college just because it's basically in PTEL What you link is it will link it only to academic you should involve the placement officers because they related which course at Least the final years they can use it for the resume as such with certification They can encourage the final years. So with that anyone went which course this okay This will be useful for your department placement or thing so that involvement and linking with the placement officers The SPOC has to link the have an interaction or thing as us because they're always the capital NPTEL Okay, it is mainly library or Academician will be involved not the placement officers. So that should be because Any student who wants to take he's just see what's a use? Okay. I've learned in my academic. So what's again? What's it's going to be if it either higher studies or we are carrier So that importance only from the carry development another thing is we are bringing from the semesters This is as a value added courses as such we are having as a separate carry development department So they are giving some value added courses every year every semester. So this Every department is taking one selecting one of the course and that is being given as a value added course in that One of the faculty will be playing across the Assignment or whatever video courses and a faculty will be giving a mentoring as such So they'll be acting as a mentor and as a guide for clearing the doubts as such So that we either in the Saturdays or in the after college hours So that instead of giving a separate value out of course, which is totally different Something which I had and added value combining your Thing as so that is the one thing you have to take it as such So all these combination only then normally what happens is I've seen in many colleges They buy the NPTEL address that is installed just in the library in just install it is not Steamed into the land network because a student going to the library It's always go to the library go and see the NPTEL will be a thing Okay, when it's streamed in the land the college labs or whatever department as whatever thing then you can encourage the students They take it up. So these type of things Involvement as such as to be done because everyone has to get me involved only then it will be taken thing Okay, thanks a lot. Thank you. So maybe one last thing with that will stop I'm Chandil SBOC from Sasuri Academy of Engineering Coimbatore First thing is you are collecting 1250 for the programming subjects. So why don't you make it a common fee for Like other subjects because the last time five students registered for Algorithm program subject and they got less than 10 or 10 percentage. So they lost money and Yeah, certificates. So second thing is this time you are opening the portal for registration and Payment so if you The SPOC can view the details register the students though those who registered in the particular course as well as the students who registered Online payment those who Complete the online payment if they are we can able to see the details means it will be very beneficial the odd thing is after the course run if you provide is the Custom papers as well as the answer key Then the students can understand why they secured Below marks and they can prepare for the next year course. Thank you. Sure. All these things are taken. Thank you Okay, so last one. Oh my god So I'm Shanta kumari from Rajiv Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology Pondicherry And I thank NPTL team for all their works. So I have just three suggestions One is for the student enrollment or the mentor selection Usually the mentor selection is done via the mentor email ID It was little bit. It was more confusing for the students to identify the list of mentors Especially for a programming data stresses. We had at least hundred mentors to search for their mentor email ID It was a bit confusion So it's better to publish their names along with the mentor email IDs The second thing is that I thank NPTL for providing us a nice certificates for SPOZ and and the mentors But these certificates They can serve their value if it can be used for academic performance index APS course So you please give a suggestion to MHRD so that that could be useful for our career wise and The last suggestion is that the courses that you are introducing are very nice and they are very good And they are rich in their content We also suggest to run courses that are literally with respect to the industry expectations That could be helpful for the students to directly appear for a HR Interview rather than once again going for a technical round those certifications. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much So I think thanks a lot the last thing is I know we have a little bit over time. Please bear with me. Please this is We're going to introduce the team behind the show think the people who are in the NPTL office who do all this work All the appreciation that you said is directed towards them. I think of course the faculty are also there So Barthi will take some time in introducing each one of them. Please do get to know them So I think many of you would have seen names in emails talk to us on phone calls or any other interactions So I would like you all to you know to be able to put a face to that name today We'd like to start introducing our team. We have Arpita here who is newly joined as Deepa was with us She must be a person that you're a familiar with as she wrote in the group She actually moved on to another organization recently So Arpita somebody who's joined us recently and she'll be working closely with the local chapters as Deepa used to Then we have Kanupriya who's joined us now. We'll be taking care of the portal activities here Then we have Kamala with us who's also working on the local come up on stage So we have she works basically on the local chapters Organizing workshops and also the text transcriptions that you'll see on the portal that is basically her effort and We are all we have a lot of sub teams also. I'll start introducing them We have Nagarajan Who maintains our servers does our infrastructure inside the office and the hardest copying he takes care of Then we have Muni Prasad and Gokul Shekhar who joined us recently So they will also be in this particular team We have the coding team that many of you are talking about what you see as the NPTEL website the NOC the local chapter And all the details within that we have a coding team Navin is not here with us today He's also moving on to another organization. You might have seen some mails from him He was the basic architect who's done a lot of the work, but he was ably assisted by Venkatesh Govindrajan Jason and Jeffery Anto is a new joining again who'll be with them We have our designers who's our brochures. You see the designs of many things that you see We have a booklet which we have produced for the 93 courses. We'll show it to you We'll probably be sending you all a copy of that So the person there is Anushree Who does all the designs for us and she's assisted by Sujin and She biology who's joined us recently. He's taking photographs so you can finish that and take it so Then the local chapter team that you all would have heard again names Krishnamini was with us again She's moving on so she's not here today with us Gayathri is here who has been with us throughout on the local chapter front She does entire integration and many of you would have interacted on various capacities Go to the center Mohana and Jason take care of the basic portal in the sense of publishing of results and Certificates and so on so Mohana is not here again, but Jesse is so Yeah, Punguly and Jitakar are new join is again with us Who will now be working on the outreach of NPTEL to various colleges and also on the local chapter front with you people We are trying to make the teams bigger because our volume is increasing. So they are Punguly and Jitakar We have Anita with us Maria with us who also work on transcription and subtitling and The local chapters again. We have Gokul Shekhar a new joining who is again joined us recently he liven Who again help us in various tasks and Then we have Jainty with us who holds the four together with putting all the question papers together She does the coordination across institutes for getting it seeing that it works on the TCS systems works with TCS on that front So she does that kind of for the last four and she's been handling that completely We have Lakshmi with us who you'd have again interacted She handles the portal issues anything with students changing IDs We're drawing from the core central link to the course doing all that stuff putting content out there That's Lakshmi on the stage Then we have a team of Surya Madhu and Krishna. Can you come on stage? Where is Krishna? Okay So these are the hands without which our office will not run They are they need to go to people that who will do anything for us, you know, right from A to Z They are the people to go to then we have our Accounts team. I think they're busy settling all your TA accounts that you'll be getting after lunch so we have Ganapati Inba there and Mr. Murli who's now recently joined us to again help hold all the processes together So I think you'll be meeting them when you get your TA settled and the most important the videos that you all see that Well, you all were appreciating about the video audio and so on we have the entire team here I know how many members are here. Mr. Kannan Krishnamurti hedge the entire team. He's been with us since I think 99 or 2002. I don't know. He's been here since long long ago He's still with us So he kind of maintains the studios that we have here He gives expert advice to the other people and so on he heads a team under him The team members are Benjamin She Balaji again, Ram Kumar Karthikeyan, Ravichandran Gomati, Shivajay, Prakash, Mohanarangan Karthik Bupati Okay, I left out Karthik Karthika So Karthi also helps us in various processes here. She Balaji you'd want to join us. Give the camera to I don't We could have never nice photo at least. Yeah, we have a coordinators probably I think we'd like a team photo also which we never got last time So we'd want the coordinators on stage. Professors Mangal, Professor Pratap and Professor Andrew So this is the IIT Madras NPTEL team that you see out here Who is doing all the work from the NPTEL office IIT Madras? Yeah, just to give you some announcements The lunch has come in it's been arranged. It's in the same dining hall where you'll have refreshments The tea is I think it has been settled. It'll come to the same tables where you all did your registration So after that you can actually collect your tea amounts from there. The entire team is again available to you Please come back and talk to us regarding anything that you want. Don't forget the certificates You have to collect for the main exams. There are buses arranged for taking you all to the gate outside We have two or three trips. The buses are waiting right out there Yeah, so similarly IIT Kanpur every of the seven IITs and IAC has a similar such team The team sizes may vary but this is the IIT Madras NPTEL office team. So this is


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