Start Enrolling for new 93 courses!!

Dear Students,

We are happy to announce that the next run of NPTEL online certification courses will start on July 18, 2016. This time around, we are offering 93 certification courses comprising of 10 hr, 20 hr and 30 hr courses across disciplines.

Enrollments for the courses are open now. Click on the link "All running courses" below to see all the courses to be offered in July.

List of NPTEL Open Online courses for certification - July 2016 : Please refer the Link: http://nptel.ac.in/upcoming_courses.php

For any queries contact nptel@iitm.ac.in


-NPTEL TEAM

NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 47 new courses open for enrollment!

Dear Students

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!
NPTEL offers 47 new open online courses (10 hr course, 20hr course and 40hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering&Science, Management and Humanities.

•    Duration of courses: 4 weeks, 8 weeks or 12 weeks
•    Online course start date: Jan 18, 2016
•    Last date for enrollment: Jan 25, 2016
•    Certification exam dates: Mar 20, 27 (for 10 and 20hr courses) and Apr 24, May 1(for 40 hr courses)

Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

This site uses your Google account for authentication. You can select the course and click the join button to enroll.

After enrollment you will be able to see the course contents as and when they are made available by the course instructors.

List of 10 hr courses:

1.Probability and Stochastics for finance - Mathamatics/management
2.Introduction to Reciprocal Space - Materials Science
3.Introduction to Research - Multidisciplinary

List of 20 hr courses:

1.Microwave Integrated Circuits - Electronics&Communication
2.Strategy: An Introduction to Game Theory - Management
3.Estimation for Wireless Communications –MIMO/ OFDM Cellular and Sensor Networks - Electronics&Communication
4.Airplane Performance- Aerospace
5.Basics of NVH and Its Measurement - Mechanical
6.Marketing I - Management
7.Manufacturing Process Technology -Part I - Mechanical
8.MATLAB Programming for Numerical Computation - Chemical
9.Technical English for Engineers - Humanities
10.Introduction to boundary layers - Mechanical
11.Language and Mind - Humanities
12.Chemistry - II - Chemistry
13.Fundamentals of electronic materials and devices - Materials Science
14.Application of Spectroscopic Methods in Molecular Structure Determination - Chemistry
15.Analysis and Modeling of Welding - Materials Science
16.Fundamentals of optical and scanning electron microscopy - Materials Science
17.Information Security- II - Computer science
18.Project Planning & Control - Civil
19.Biostatistics and Design of experiments - Biotech
20.Principles of Human Resource Management - Management
21.Health research fundamentals - Humanities
22.Engineering Graphics - Civil
23.2016: Design and Analysis of Algorithms - Computer science
24.2016: An introduction to Haskell Programming    - Computer science
25.2016: Programming, Data structures and Algorithm - Computer science

List of 40 hr courses:

1.Stability and control of aircraft - Aerospace
2.Basics of Finite Element Analysis - Mechanical
3.Electromagnetic theory - Electrical
4.Geology and Soil Mechanics - Civil
5.Phase Diagrams in Materials Science and Engineering - Materials Science
6.Risk and Reliability of offshore structures - Ocean
7.HSE for offshore and petroleum engineers - Ocean
8.Discrete Mathematics - Mathematics
9.Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics - Mechanical
10.Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - Computer science
11.Introduction to Machine Learning - Computer science
12.Computational Fluid Dynamics - Chemical
13.Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer - Mechanical
14.Biochemistry - Chemistry
15.Probability and Statistics - Mathematics
16.Industrial Automation and Control - Electrical
17.Probability Methods in Civil Engineering - Civil
18.Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling - Mathematics
19.Vibration of structures - Mechanical

Happy Learning!!!!

Warm regards
NPTEL Team
(For any clarifications, please contact nptel@iitm.ac.in)

NPTEL Open Online Certification Courses - 11 new courses open for enrollment!

2,70,000 registered users on the portal! 
3,83,000 enrollments!
7500+ certificates awarded! 
57 open online courses completed! 
Exams for 18 courses to be conducted in September!

Here is your chance to enroll and learn for free today from the faculty at the IITs!

NPTEL offers 11 new open online courses (1 20hr course and 10 10hr courses) in various disciplines of Engineering, Biotechnology and Humanities.


Anyone who is above 13 years of age can enroll for this course and learn for free at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in.

Requirement: A google enabled email account


List of courses is:


10 hr courses: (Sep 14 - October 23 2015)

1. Principles of Downstream techniques in Bioprocess (Biotechnology)

2. Mass spectrometry based proteomics (Biotechnology)

3. Proteins and Gel-Based Proteomics (Biotechnology)

4. Basic Calculus for Engineers, Scientists and Economists (Mathematics)

5. Introduction to nonlinear dynamics (Electrical Engineering)

6. Probability and Random Variables/ Processes for Wireless Communications (Electrical Engineering)

7. Manufacturing Systems Technology part II

8. Language and society (Humanities and Social Sciences)

9. Brief introduction to Psychology (Humanities and Social Sciences)

10. Issues in Bioethics (Humanities and Social Sciences)


20 hr course (Sep 7 - Oct 31 2015)

Elements of Visual Representation (Humanities and Social Sciences)


Exam dates: 1 and 8 November 2015 (1-4 pm)

Enroll today at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in and learn from the course you are interested in. 


Warm regards

NPTEL Team

(for any queries: email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in)

Video feedback from students for online certification courses

Dear student

Thank you for enrolling in this course and hope you are continuing with us in this journey of learning from certification courses.

We value your feedback very much and thank you if you have filled the feedback form.

We wish to now create a video on student feedback..

So please record your views about your experience of having gone through the course using the online mode of learning - your motive behind registering for the course, how you came to know about it, where do you think you could use the certificate, etc - as a video, upload it on youTube and send us the link in the url given here:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YEFQ2h26EWrxTLmm0xIh_tS-D5DzxRlrI90JPU0vA-k/viewform?c=0&w=1

we would go through them and select the best videos for upload on our portal as testimonials and in other videos we create about NPTEL.

We request you to give your name, if you are a student or a working professional and other details (such as college name or work place, if you would want to), the course you took and your feedback about the same.

You can record this using your mobile phone or your laptop/desktop using a webcam or with the help of a friend. If a group of you had applied and given the exam, you could all make the video together too.

Warm regards
NPTEL team, IIT Madras

Feedback about the course

Dear student

Thank you very much for enrolling to this course and being with us through it.
Hope you enjoyed the experience and benefited from it.

Those who have not given the feedback, Please give the feedback, it will be useful useful for us.

We wish to get your feedback about the course, which is very important to us - as it gives us an idea of you found the course (the teaching, the assignments and exams), the areas where we need to improve, the processes we need to change to make it easier for you all and also other inputs on the courses you would want offered, etc.

Kindly follow the link given below and fill in the feedback form and help us improve the service we render.
http://goo.gl/forms/t4CGqeMM82

We hope you continue your journey with us by taking up more courses with us. Good luck for your future.

Warm regards
- NPTEL team

Certificate Format

Dear student

We have made a small modification in the certificates.

1. The certificate for a student scoring lesser than 60% - no changes

2. A student who scores above 60% gets the tag "Elite" printed at the top of the certificate. (Please note that the silver star is not being printed for students scoring between 60-90%)

3. A student who scores above 90% will have "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

The new formats are attached here for your reference







-NPTEL Team

Announcement !!!

Dear Students,

E-Certificate will be available on  http://nptel.ac.in/noc/  portal within a week. 

NPTEL Team

Scores for the exams conducted on 22 and 29 March 2015 by NPTEL

Dear Student

Here is the much awaited announcement on scores for the NPTEL Online certification exam.Your score has been published on the NPTEL website. 

Url: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/

Please follow the steps below:

Goto http://nptel.ac.in/noc/
Click on the tab "Completed courses"
Select the course for which you wrote the exam.
On the right side of the course page, you can find the option "Candidate login"
User Name is your email id registered for the course. Your password is your date of birth in the format – ddmmyyyy
Only candidates who registered for the certification exam and wrote the exam, will be able to login here to view scores.

E-Certificate will be available on the same portal by tomorrow evening. You can download and use this too, if required.
 
Hard copy of the certificate will be sent by speed post to you by the end of this month.


Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Online Certification Team

Feedback about the course

Dear student

Thank you very much for enrolling to this course and being with us through it.
Hope you enjoyed the experience and benefited from it.

We wish to get your feedback about the course, which is very important to us - as it gives us an idea of you found the course (the teaching, the assignments and exams), the areas where we need to improve, the processes we need to change to make it easier for you all and also other inputs on the courses you would want offered, etc.

Kindly follow the link given below and fill in the feedback form and help us improve the service we render.
http://goo.gl/forms/t4CGqeMM82

We hope you continue your journey with us by taking up more courses with us. Good luck for your future.

Warm regards
- NPTEL team

Mar 22nd/29th NOC Exam - Download your hall ticket!

Your NPTEL Online Certification Exam hall ticket for March 22nd/ 29th is available for download at the registration URL :https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html.  This is for proctored exam in India
It is available in another tab. Please download, print, read the instructions and carry it with you for the examination. Note that the timing is1 pm to 4 pm. NPTEL wishes you good luck.

Announcement for Non-Proctored Honour code Exam (for students not residing in India)

Dear Student:


Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the NPTEL Online certification Non-Proctored Honour code Exam for students not residing in India. Registration is open from 3rd March 2015 to 15th March 2015.  
The non-proctored honour code exam is on March 29th 1 PM IST to March 30th 1 PM IST and is open only for students who have enrolled with their country as Non-India. Students in India, please do not send us email requesting for any inclusions. The Non-proctored honour code exam is not for students in India.

Please do a money transfer of INR 1500 (or) 25 USD equivalent per course that you are registering for the certificate exam, to the account given below. You can register for a maximum of 2 certification exams only. Please fill the registration form only after doing the money transfer.

The Registration URL is: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/Non-Proctored_exam/. Please read the below Instructions carefully before registering. 

Bank account details for money transfer:
Account number: 10620824305
Bank and branch: State Bank of India , IIT Madras- 600036
SWIFT Code: SBININBB453
IFSC Code: SBIN0001055
Account type: Savings bank
Beneficiary Name: Registrar,IIT Madras

Instructions for Registration:
1) Registration login available only to candidates whose have enrolled for the course with a non-India country. The Non-proctored honour code exam is not for students in India.
2) You can only register for certification exams, for courses that you have already enrolled.
3) Exam date is March 29th 1 PM IST to March 30th 1 PM IST.
4) Please do a money transfer of INR 1500 (or) 25 USD equivalent per course that you are registering for the certificate exam, to the account that has been given above. You can register for a maximum of 2 certification exams only.
5) Please fill the registration form only after doing the money transfer.
6) You would have to upload the screen shot of the money transfer in the registration form to complete it. Incomplete forms will not be accepted.
7) Only e-certificate will be published on the website- http://nptel.ac.in/noc on your login. The e-certificate will only be published for the exams which you have registered, paid and submitted the answer sheet.
8) The e-certificate will have your final score- which is a combination of your assignment score - based on best of 3 assignments (50%) and final exam score (50%).
9) Your test score will be available only after April 15th 2015 and this will be sent as a email to you.
10)Your e-certificate will be available on the NPTEL website only after April 27th 2015.
 
Instructions for Non-Proctored Honour code Exam:
1) Download the PDF of the question paper of the course exam (s) you have registered from the websitehttps://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in in the suitable "Exam" Course that would be available for this purpose. The Question paper will be made available from 29th March 2015 1 PM to 30th March 1 PM IST - 24 hours.
2) Only PDFs will be accepted as the final answer sheet. Answer PDFs must be uploaded back in the websitehttps://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in in the suitable "Exam" Course that would be available for this purpose. This upload would be possible only from the email id with which you enrolled and registered. Format of answer PDFs to be submitted:
(a) Hand written and scanned (or)
(b) Typed and converted to PDF.
3) Only 1 PDF per course will be accepted. Ensure readability/clarity of final PDF document uploaded.
4) Evaluation will be done only for answer sheets for courses registered.
5) Last submitted answer PDF will be considered for evaluation.
6) Answer sheets cannot be submitted after 1 PM IST on 30th March 2015.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) -  Please note that once the registration form is submitted, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course(s) is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please make the payment suitably and fill in the registration form. Once the registration form is submitted, your registration form will be non-editable. 

We do hope you will use this opportunity to write the NPTEL Online Certification exam. NPTEL wishes you the very best. Email us at: nptel@iitm.ac.in if you have any specify queries.

Thanks and Best wishes,
NPTEL team

NPTEL DAA Programming Assignment: Dividing Sequences

The fifth and final programming assignment, Dividing Sequences, has been released. Look under the Unit on Dynamic Programming. Like the previous assignment, this one is due on March 20.

Week 8 Quiz, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Deadline extended

The quiz for Week 8 was apparently not visible. The settings hav been updated, so it should be accessilbe now. The deadline is extended to March 11. Look under the final unit, "Intractability".

Week 8 Quiz available, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Quiz for Week 8 now available. Look under the final unit, "Intractability".

Registration deadline for certification exam extended!

Dear students,

The registration deadline for the certification exam has been extended till midnight of March 01, 2015!
Register now for the certification exam on March 22nd / 29th 2015 to earn your certificate from the IITs!

Registration Link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html

Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.


NPTEL team

NPTEL DAA Programming Assignment: Advertising Hoardings

The fourth programming assignment, Advertising Hoardings, has been announced. Look under the unit Data Structures: Union-Find and Heaps. This assignment is due on Friday, March 20, just before the first weekend of certification exams.

There will be one more programming assignment, based on dynamic programming, also due on March 20.

Week 8 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Week 8 lectures (LP, network flows, intractability) are now available.

Number Triples, Sample test cases

The Number Triples programming assignment shows a number of sample test cases at the bottom of the page. Only the first two, corresponding to the examples discussed in the problem statement are valid. The test cases shown as Sample Test Case 3 onwards are spurious and displayed due to some bug. We will try to resolve this.

There are 10 private test cases which have been checked and verified to be correct.

Week 7 Quiz available, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Quiz for Week 7 now available. Look under the unit "Dynamic Programming".

Static mock questions

Design and Analysis of Algorithm : https://www.digialm.com/EForms/Mock/Template/index.html?885@@1 
The purpose of the mock is to familiarize yourself with the pattern of the paper and the online exam platform. The static mock has been published with few sample questions (some are repetitive also) and is not exhaustive of the course content.

Format of the Online test paper for your course:

Design and analysis of Algorithms  (Total marks=120)
Section I:

Questions 1-18 : Multiple choice questions - each has 4 options 
One correct answer - (each carries 4 marks)

Questions 19-30: Comprehension type question
There will be 4 main questions and each will have 3 sub questions in the MCQ format (with 4 choices each) with one correct answer (each sub question carries 4 marks)

Registrations for certification exam still open. Register today!
Registration link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html
Register now! Last date of registration is Feb 27th 2015.

PS:Tentative mock has been provided above,there may be last minute slight changes in the question paper.

Toppers of 3 completed NPTEL online certification courses

Dear students

The list of student toppers who have scored 90% and above in the completed courses - namely "Programming,Data Structures and Algorithms", "Basic Electrical Circuits" and "Introduction to Programming in C" has been published on the NPTEL website. Url: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/

Register today for the certification exams and get a chance to feature in the toppers list of your course.

Hope you are enjoying the course and good luck with the exams.

- NPTEL team

Week 7 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Week 7 lectures (dynamic programming) are now available.

Week 6 Quiz available, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Quiz for Week 6 now available. Look under the unit "Data Structures: Search Trees"

Third programming assessment, Number Triples, under Weighted Graphs

The third programming assignment is now available, under "Weighted Graphs". The problem is called "Number Triples".

Week 6 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Week 6 lectures (binary search trees, greedy algorithms) are now available.

Certification exam pattern, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

There will be 30 multiple choice questions, similar to those in the weekly quiz.

Week 5 Quiz available, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Quiz for Week 5 now available. Look under the unit "Data Structures: Union-Find and Heaps"

Certificates from the IITs! Register for exam now!

Dear All,
Registration Link: https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html
Register now for the certification exam on March 22th / 29th 2015 to earn your certificate from the IITs!

Above 90%


Above 60%


Others


Regards,
NPTEL Team.

Week 5 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Lectures for Week 5 are now available.

The quiz for this week will be announced shortly, along with a programming assignment spanning weeks 4 and 5. There was no separate programming assignment for week 4.

Scores in programming assignment Great Escape

When the assignment was initially loaded on the server, there was some problem with assigning weights to testcases: some testcases had differential weightage and some even had weight zero!

This was later fixed, so now there are 10 test cases, with equal weightage. This means that you should resubmit your code to see your actual score. And it also explains the phenomenon reported by some students that scores have decreased for identical submissions: this means your code was originally failing test cases which had wrongly been assigned reduced weightage.

Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience.

Week 4 Quiz available, Design and Analysis of Algorithms,

The quiz for Week 4 is available.

Update on registration for exams

Please do sign up for the certification exam.

Registration for exams was opened on 22 February 2015.

The list of students are categorized according to their transactions (success/ failure/incomplete) for every course and this is being hosted in the following url.

Week 4 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Lectures for Week 4 are now available.

The quiz and programming assignment for this week will be announced shortly.

Week 3 Programming assignment, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms Sample Announcement

Programming assignment on BFS now available.

Registration open for certification exam

Dear Students,

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the certification exam. 

The registration for the certification exam is open to all students enrolled in the course. 

Registration will be open from 22st JAN 2015 12 noon (Thursday) until 27th FEB 2015 5 PM (Friday).  

The certification exam registration URL is : https://www.digialm.com/EForms/configuredHtml/885/1958/login.html 

Dates of exam: 22nd March 2015 (or) 29th March 2015 (exams for all 12 courses will be conducted on both the dates)
Exam Session time: 1 PM - 4 PM
Examination Centers: The exam is to be conducted in 100 cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Registration fees:Rs 1000/-
Mode of payment: Only online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking
Hall ticket: The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd week of March 2015 onwards.

Where to check your payment status?
In the following url, http://nptel.ac.in/noc, we shall be posting the status of your payments.
Your status will be updated within 2 business days of your transaction.

If your status is not a success and you have not received an email confirming payment, this means that your payment has not reached us.
So kindly re-register and make the payment again. Any funds deducted will be reverted to your account by the payment gateway.


Who will get a certificate?
Any candidate who registers and attends the certification exam will get a certificate. 

Will the score appear on the certificate?
Yes. The scores obtained by the student in the assignments and in the proctored exam will be used to compute the final score printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website, where on logging in, your assignment scores and your score in the proctored certification exam will be displayed. Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTE :- (FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE ENROLLED IN MORE THAN 1 COURSE) 
Please note that once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable. 

Help desk option
Toll free number application technical support :  18002660317 ( Monday to Sunday - 7AM to 11PM)
Help Desk Email Id: iitmnptelonline@gmail.com 

Thanks and best wishes,
NPTEL team

Update on Week 2 programming assignment, SMS

  1. As some of you have pointed out, one of the test cases had words longer than 8 characters, the limit promised in the question. This has been fixed. All existing submissions should be regraded automatically in a day or two.
  2. The deadline is extended to Wednesday, 28 January midnight.

Week 3 quiz, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Now posted. Due Wed, Jan 28.

Week 3 lectures, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Lectures for Week 3 are now available.

The quiz and programming assignment for this week will be announced shortly.

Week 2 Programming assignment, NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

The programming assignment for Week 2 is now available. There are 8 hidden test cases. The total score is on 100, so you get 12.5 per test case. You can submit as many times as you want. The score on the last submission will count.

Remember that there will be 6 programming assignments and you need to submit at least 5 of them to qualify for a certificate, and you should get more than 0 in at least 4 assignments.

NPTEL mirror, MOOC on Design and Analysis of Algorithms

The video lectures for this course are mirrored by NPTEL at the following link: http://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106131/ This site allows lectures to be downloaded in different formats. However, please note that there may be some lag in transferring the current week's videos to this site. --Madhavan

Week 2 lectures

Week 2 lectures for DAA were released on Monday morning. There is a second quiz, due on Wed, Jan 21. A programming assignment will also be announced in a day or so, due later next week. Also, pdf copies of slides for the lectures are available with each module. Click on the button labelled "Text Version" above the video. --Madhavan

NPTEL MOOC, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Week 1 lectures

Thank you for registering for the NPTEL MOOC on Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Lectures for the first week will become available on the morning of Monday, January 5. There will be about 2 hours of video lecture material each week, which will be released one week at a time.

There will be a quiz with multiple choice questions based on each week's material, to be submitted midway through the following week. There will also be 6 programming assignments, starting with Week 2. The quizzes and programming assignments will contribute to the certification. Details will be announced in the first lecture video.

There will be a certification exam in March. You can choose between two slots: March 22 and March 29, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm on both days. There is a Rs 1000 fee for writing this exam. Registration for the exam will open on February 2. Some sample questions will be provided by the end of January so that you have an idea of what the exam will be like.  

As you know, there is a Discussion Forum for this course. Please post your doubts on this forum. They will be answered by me or one of my Teaching Assistants, or even, sometimes, by your fellow students. Hope you enjoy the course!

--Madhavan