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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

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Feedback for Introduction to Research

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sKyDDjRdRaxov2iYs1D7l9b3fVicgUs-YpBRfw3s_Y0

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Introduction to research- Assignment 1 marks revised

Dear Student,
There were lot of confusion after we released the assignment 1 marks. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused. We have tried our maximum to correct all possible mistakes. Please let us know if there is any confusion.

We request you to read this mail completely before you raise a question. Many times people are not reading the mail and asking the same questions again and again. So kindly bear with us for few minutes.
We tried a new method of evaluation called 'peer review" in this assignment. This was focused to a matured community of people who are interested / already in research. We had explained the steps to be followed to submit the assignment. Still there were many issues, we feel you all should know what all problems we faced,
1. You were asked to give the e-mail id in the beginning , but many did not give, so that we couldn't track it. So we were not able to assign marks for the same. This you can see in one of the files attached.
2. You were asked to review 2 other assignment, but many did not do it. Because of it many other people will not get score for their assignment even if they have done 2 reviews. We had to correct all those assignments manually which was actually a double amount of work.
3. We were not able to tack the assignments of few people , the data base shows the mail id doesn't exists.

We wanted to make the participant understand, how a good abstract should be. We thought the best way is to distribute among yourselves. Even after you did your part in the peer review, because of the carelessness of many, we had to do it again manually. So please try to understand the pain from our side. This is why the revision took time. We are not still sure whether it is 100% perfect. Feel free to write us if you have a VALID issue.
We have uploaded the assignments as 2 parts:
1. Who have done the review, and their assignment was reviewed by someone else. Still some of them have not received marks for their assignment because we could not find your assignment.
2. Who haven't done the review, but their assignment was reviewed by someone else. So for such people the first column is 0.

NOTE: This will not be shown in your progress bar.

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_ge01/assets/img/review%20and%20response%20final.pdf

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_ge01/assets/img/Not%20reviewed%20for%20others%20final.pdf

Thank you
Course TA

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RE: Refund amount for failed transactions

Dear Student

We have refunded the money from our side for failed transactions, if the money is not credited to your account you can check with your bank with the reference number which has been generated during your payment.

Refunds are not being processed for successful registrations.

If the bank confirms that your amount is not refunded, then please write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in

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NPTEL Certification exam: Hall tickets available for download

Dear candidate:

Hall tickets have been published for the courses that have exams on March 20 and 27. The link for the same is https://www3.digialm.com:443//EForms/configuredHtml/885/2759/login.html

Instructions for candidates to access the hall ticket:

• Please login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access and download the hall ticket(s) for the March 20th/ 27th exams, from the link.
  
• Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on March 20th/ 27th 2016.
  
•  Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a valid ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket).
  
• Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.
  
• Note1:- If you are writing 2 exams - 1 on March 20th and another on March 27th, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets.
  
•  Note2: Exam time : 2 PM to 5 PM.
•  In case of issues - contact us at nptel@iitm.ac.in. 

Best of luck for your exams!

Thanks
NPTEL team

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Assignment 1 score

Dear student,
As we have already informed, there are some issues in the assignment 1 score. So kindly give us some time. We will upload the updated list on Monday. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

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Introduction to research- Assignmnet 1 scores

Dear student,
You can find your assignment 1 score in the following link. It will not be shown in your progress bar. Your mark is divided into two, the average score you have obtained from your reviewers+ score given for reviewing. If you have reviewed 2 or above you will get 5 marks.
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc16_ge01/assets/img/Assignment%201.pdf

Note: If you haven't followed the procedure mentioned, your score will not be available here.

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Hall ticket infromation

Dear student,
The hall ticket will be available for download around March 14, 2016. We will be sending you the mail regarding where and how to download the hall ticket.Exam venue will be available in the hall ticket

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Introduction to research: Exam related queries

Dear student,
There were some queries regarding the exam registration. Kindly look into it

1. If you haven't received any acknowledgement for the payment, please track your payment from the link: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/noc_paymentcheck.php

2.We have closed the registration form, sent out lists for hall ticket generation and issued the work order too.So it would not be possible for anyone to register now

3.If the money has deducted for their failed registration, then money will be refunded within 8 to 10 business days.

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Assignment 1 Marks

Dear student,
We have received many queries about the assignment 1 marks. We had already informed that there were some technical issues, then we tried a new method for evaluation.  Even after all these we have to enter marks for all 6000 participants. We know many of you have registered for the examination. Kindly cooperate with us. Nobody received marks yet. So please be patient. We will update you when it is done.

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Introduction to research assignment 4

Assignment 4 is available in the respective unit.

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REMINDER: Registration closes on 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday) - Register today!!!

Dear students

Hope you are doing the course and are enjoying the learning process.

Already 5766 students have registered for the exams, are you one of it? If not Please register for the exam today!!

The certification exam registration URL is : http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
(Only if you are enrolled in a 10 hr / 20 hr course that started on Jan 18th, you will be able to login here)

If you have any payment issue and internet connectivity problem, please try to register earlier instead of trying out in the last minute.

Exam registrations close on 1st MAR 2016 5 PM (Tuesday)!! The last date will not be extended!

Dates of exam: 20th March 2016 (or) 27 March 2016
Exam Session time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several 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

The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd/3rd week of March 2016.

Certificate will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate examination. 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 NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- 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. Its not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.
Courses with exam on March 20th/ 27th : http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/pdf/Courses%20with%20exams%20on%20March%2020-27%202016.pdf

2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER: -  Students who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to pay individually using the above form. While doing so the reduced fee will automatically apply.

3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:- If you are paying fee via Local chapter of your college using the DD option, ONLY After the SPOC of your college has finished uploading the Bulk-Payment details for the March exam, please come to this form and add your signature, photo and certificate (in case of SC/ST). This step is mandatory fr generating the hall ticket.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Reminder for submitting and peer reviewing of the summary writing assignment

This is to remind you to submit your summary writing assignment and perform the evalutation of others'assignment before the dealine(25-02-2016) as mentioned in the previous announcement. Remember that without doing the peer review, the assignment will not be considered as submitted. Your score for the assignment will appear in your progress tab after the assignment closes. So dont worry if your score for the assignment does appear even after you do the peer evaluation. Please dont request for access to edit the google form shared for peer evauation, instead just fill and submit it. Hope you will enjoy this method of peer reviewing.

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Resubmission and Peer review of assignment #1 (Summary Writing)

Hi all, This is to inform you about how the evaluation of your summary writing assignment (week 1) is to be done. In the section, week 1: Literature survey, you will find two assignments namely "week 1 assignment_summary writing" and "week 1 assignment_ summary writting text". In the first one, we need you to enter your email id used for registering for this course and submit your summary writing assignment.(Please copy and pase your email ids rather than typing, to avoid any typo errors) After you do that you will be asked to review assignments of others, by filling a google form attached, which contains yes/no questionnaire. You are required to review a minimum of 2 other's assignment. Please submit your assignments by 23-02-2016 10:00pm and do the review evaluation by 25-02-2016 10:00pm. Only if you do the evaluation, your assignment will be considered as submitted. This type of peer reviewing will also help you in better understanding the summary writing work. In the second one ie, week 1 assignment_summary writing text, we need you to submit the same assignment once again. This is for your score of this assignment to appear in your respective grade cards. We will also attach a video demostrating this process of submitting the assignment.

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Introduction to research; Third assignment

Dear student,
Third assignment due date is today (17.02.16) 10.00 pm.
We will be taking best 3 out of four assignments. So please submit your assignment without fail.  It is a multiple choice assignment and you can select your answers there itself and submit.

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Resubmission of assignment 1

Dear student,
We are sorry to inform that there are some technical issues in the re-submission of assignment 1 . So please do not submit anything to the folder which we have shared.(If you have already submitted then its OK)  We will come back with a decision in a day or two. 

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Introduction to research

Dear student,
There was some confusions regarding an assignment appeared in the " How to access portal" unit. That was a trail one. Please ignore it. Also i hope you all might have got a mail to contribute in assignment 1 . We are planning to try a new method for the evaluation of assignment 1. We are running some trials.So please be patient until we announce something regarding the same.
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Thank you
Course TA 

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Introduction to Research- 4th week

Forth week materials are available now.

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Introduction to research- Exam pattern & Assignment weightage

Dear student,

Here the announcement regarding  final exam pattern & assignment weightage in the final marks.:
Each individual assignment carries the same amount of marks. Best 3 out of 4 assignments will account for 50% marks for the course.

Final exam will be objective type and will be for 50% of the total marks for the course. The final exam may include sections that will involve reading comprehension as well.

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Announcement regarding exam and certificate format.

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Introduction to research -Answer key

Answer key for second assignment is available in week 2 unit.
Assignment 3 is a multiple choice, you can select the answers there itself and submit it. Please don't send the answers in any other format, because it is auto corrected by the system. If you have any doubts, write to us as early as possible. Please do not try to submit in the last moment.

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Introduction to research

Dear student,
There are many requests to extend the deadline.We have already extended the date till the 10th due to enrollment. Since it is only a 10 hour course we don't have much room to extend it further at this time. Kindly cooperate with us.We hope its is cleat to you. Last date for third assignment is 17.02.2016. Please submit it without fail.

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Introduction to research

Dear student,
We have received some complaints saying, Assignment 1 mark is not showing up. It is because assignment 1 was subjective. So we have to correct it manually whereas  assignment 2 was a MCQ so the system take care of it. More than 6000 people have joined for this course. Please be patient we will go through your assignments and update the marks.
The average score is computed as (sum of scores of assignments closed)/(total number of assignments - open and closed) which is actually incorrect and will make sense only when all assignment close. So please don't worry about the average score.

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Introduction to reseach: For newly joined people

Dear student,
If you have joined late, then please refer to the announcement page to know what all happened before, where are the assignments, deadlines, how to access etc.
You all can see a "how to access portal" unit in your course outline. Refer to it if you have a doubt.

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Registration open for certification exam

(Only if you are enrolled in a 10 hr / 20 hr course that started on Jan 18th, you will be able to login here)


The hall ticket will be available for download from 2nd/3rd week of March 2016.

Certificate will be awarded to candidates who register and attend the certificate examination. 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 NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LINK TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- 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. Its not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable. 
Courses with exam on March 20th/ 27th : http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/pdf/Courses%20with%20exams%20on%20March%2020-27%202016.pdf

NPTEL Team

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Introduction to research

Dear student,
We have enabled multiple submission for all the assignments. If you wish to correct something, you can do it. Your final submission will be saved.
NOTE: Tomorrow (10.02.2016) is the last date for submitting assignment 1&2. Please submit it before 10.00 PM

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Introduction to research-Week 3 assignment issues

Dear Student,
There were some problems with the week 3 assignment. There was a correction in one of the questions. Some students who have submitted already asked for a re-submission. So we have enabled multiple submission option for the same. If you want to make correction in the assignment, you can do it now. Only the final submission will be saved. 
We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Course TA

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Introdution to research- 3rd week materials

Third week videos and assignment is available now. There is a small change from syllabus mentioned. This week we have uploaded Technical presentation and creativity in research. Technical writing will be available next week.
Last date for assignment is 17.02.2016. Assignment is only from the creativity in research section. Technical presentation will be included in the next week's assignment.

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Introduction to research- text files

Text files of data analysis and modelling skills are attached with the video. You can see 'text version' tab on the right top corner once you play the video.

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Introduction to research

First and second week assignments are available. You can view them in your course outline tab under week 1 (in literature survey unit)  & week 2. The last date of submission is 10.02.2016.

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Introduction to research; week 2

Introduction to research week 2 materials are available now.

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Link to download videos

Dear Student,
You can download videos from the following link and watch them offline.
http://nptel.ac.in/courses/121106007/

Course TA

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Accessing the portal

Dear Student,
This announcement is only for those who are not able to access the portal. Others please ignore.

There were many queries regarding accessing the portal, materials etc even though it was mentioned  in the course outline.
So here we are explaining the steps to be followed.
1. Please go the following link https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/explorer
2. Login to your account (right top corner)
3.Choose 'Introduction to research' from the courses mentioned.
4. Now that is your home screen.
5. On the left side you can view course outline tab.
6. First unit is how to access the portal, which will give you the basic knowledge about the portal.
7. Below that you can view the course videos

Feel free to ask if you still have some doubts.
Thank you.
Course TA

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First week materials

Dear Students,
First week materials are out. You can view it in your course outline tab.

Course TA

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Welcome to the course Introduction to Research

Dear All, Welcome to this course on Introduction to Research. A few more weeks before classes start. Looking forward to the interactions ahead. prathap