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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://goo.gl/forms/ORgd13JTpicxTnE83

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Research: Solution of Assignment 8

Dear student,
Solution of assignment 8 has published. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=76&lesson=129

-Course TA

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Feedback for week 8

Dear student

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

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 8 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 8

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Solution of Assignment 7

Dear student,
Solution of assignment 7 is available now. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=66&lesson=75

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Feedback for week 7

Dear student

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

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 7 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 7

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Hall ticket for September 24th NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the September 24th NPTEL Online certification exam, your Admit Card/ Hall ticket is now available inside your application form:

1. Please visit the link: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

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 the link and click on September exam to download the hall ticket(s) for the September 24th exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:

https://cdn3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/52541/login.html

Please try to access both the links to download your hall ticket, if you are not able to find your hall ticket in both the links., kindly write to us at nptel@iitm.ac.in.
 
Note: that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on September 24, 2017.

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original 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 – Forenoon and Afternoon sessions, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets which will be hosted inside the login.
 
In case of the any problems with the hall ticket kindly write to us nptel@iitm.ac.in

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be encouraged.
2. You will not be allowed to write the exam if you are showing up in the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Gate Entry beyond 09:30 AM in FN and 2:30 PM in AN will not be entertained.
4. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof.

NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL team

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Introduction to Research: New contents and assignment are available

Dear student,
Eighth week contents have been published. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=76&lesson=79
Assignment 8 is also published, its due date is on 20th of September 2017 at 11:59 pm. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=76&assessment=126

-Course TA

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 6 Solution

Dear Student,
Solution of assignment 6 is published.  https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=61&lesson=125

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Feedback for week 6

Dear student

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

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for week 6 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

week 6

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Research: New contents and assignment available

Dear Student,
Lectures of "Design of Experiments" are available under week 7 contents. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=66&lesson=69
Assignment 7 (based on the above lectures) is also available. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=66&assessment=123
Please note that the assignment is due on 13th of September 2017 at 11:59 pm. 

-Course TA

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 5 Solution

Dear Student,
Please see the solution of the 5th assignment under week 5 contents. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=52&lesson=122

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Feedback for week 5

Dear student

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

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for Week 5 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

Week 5

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Research: New contents available

Dear student,
Week 6 contents [on Intellectual Property] are published in the course page. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=61&lesson=63
Assignment 6 is also published. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=61&assessment=120
Please note that the due date for assignment 6 submission is 6th of September 2017.

-Course TA

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 4 solution

Dear student,
Solution for 4th assignment has published under week 4 contents. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=46&lesson=119

-Course TA

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Last date for Exam Registartion Extended

Dear Candidates

Last date for exam registration have been extended till August 28 10:00 AM (Monday).

Payment for the exam can been made till August 28 5:00 PM (Monday)

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centers in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person and to get the certificate.

Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

-NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 5

Dear student,
Assignment 5 is published in the course page. This assignment is based on lectures on "Creativity in Research". Questions on "Ethics in Research" will be included in the next assignment.

Thanks and Regards,
Course TA

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Introduction to Research: New contents available

Dear student,
Week 5 contents are available now.

-Course TA

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 3 Solution

Solution for the 3rd assignment is published. Please see it under week 3 contents. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=36&lesson=116

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Feedback for week 4

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Introduction to Research: Text version of lectures

Dear student,
Link to view the text versions of all the lectures can be found under the first tab "How to access the portal" on the course page.  https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=1&lesson=117

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Subtitling in Indian Languages

Dear Student

We are trying to increase the accessibility of NPTEL content by introducing subtitling in Indian languages.

This is experimental and has many challenges since it is technical content and considerable judgement is required to decide what to translate and what to transliterate. Please note that the intention is to enable more students to benefit from the content. Literary accuracy is therefore not the focus, so the translation may please be seen in this light.

Please see our initial effort in the first group discussion video of the first week. You should go to the 'settings' icon at the bottom of the page (NOT the cc icon). When you click the settings icon you will get the option to pick the language.

We are aiming to do trials in all official Indian languages. At the moment we have received the translations for Hindi, Tamil, and Sanskrit and these have been enabled. We will enable the other languages as they become available. It is a slow process since manual intervention is required.

At the top of the screen, there is an 'i' icon, you can click on this to report any errors you see.

Please take a look and let me know your comments and reactions.

prathap

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 2 Solution

Solution for second assignment is published. Please see it under the week 2 contents. https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05/unit?unit=21&lesson=114

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Introduction to Research: New Assignment

Fourth assignment has uploaded. Due date is on 23rd of August 2017 at 11:59 pm.

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Introduction to Research: New contents available

Dear student,
Week 4 contents are available now.

-Course TA

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A Reminder on Certification Exam - Register Today

GET CERTIFIED

Registration is open from 2nd Aug 2017 until 23rd Aug 2017 10:00am. Hurry up to get certified from IIT's and IISc

Register Now

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Introduction to Research

Dear student,
Solution for assignment 1 is released. Please find it under Week 1 contents.

-Course TA

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Exam and Certificate Format

Dear student

The certification exam will be conducted at designated centres in the city chosen by you. You have to register for the exam by filling up the form, paying the exam fee and appear in person to get the certificate.

Register for the exam today at: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

Exam registration form closes on 23rd AUGUST 2017 10:00 AM (Wednesday).

For other details about exam registration, please check our previous announcement.

Type of exam: Computer based exam (Online)

Online:

You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Hall ticket and Government Photo Identification Card(Example: Driving License,Passport, PAN card, Voter ID, Aadhaar-ID with your Name, date of birth, photograph and signature) for verification and take the exam in person. You can find the allotted exam center details in the hall ticket.

The questions will be on the computer and the answers will have to be entered on the computer; type of questions may include multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, essay type answers, etc

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively around 10 -16th September 2017. We will notify the same through email.

FINAL CERTIFICATE:

The final score = 25% assignment score + 75% final certification exam score.

The final score will determine if you will/will not receive a certificate.

1. Final score < 40%: NO certificate
2. Final score between 40% -59%: Certificate of type "Successfully completing the course"
3. Final score between 60% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top
4. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and the gold medal printed on it.

Please click the link here for certificate format: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/cert_preview/certificate_latest.pdf

-NPTEL Team

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Introduction to Research: Assignment 3

Dear students,
Assignment 3 is out. Please read the instructions carefully.

-Course TA

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Regarding 3rd assignment

Dear Student,

The third week content in the Introduction to Research course is a bit more mathematical, and so is the assignment. Nothing to worry. Please follow the lectures and you will be able to answer the questions. In any case, best 6 out of 8 assignments will be used for the assessment, so give it your best attempt.

Please follow the instructions for the assignment once it is released.

Subsequent assignments will have different flavors based on topics discussed in the respective weeks.

regards,

prathap

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Introduction to Research: Week 3 content

Dear students,
Study materials for week 3 have been released. 
Thank you.

-Course TA

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Feedback for week 1 ,week 2 and Week 3

Dear student

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

We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations for Week 1,2 and 3 contents. This is not mandatory but your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

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REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the September 2017 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.

Registration is open from 2nd AUGUST 2017 (Wednesday) until 23rd AUGUST 2017 10:00 AM (Wednesday).
The certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

(If you want to register for the exam for this course, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)

Dates of exam: 24th September 2017(Sunday) [Forenoon-Shift 1/Afternoon Shift 2] (You can choose any one shift according to your convenience for writing the exam). You can register for a maximum of 2 course exams (same day of exam – 2 sessions. Same center will be allocated for both the sessions).

Exam Session time: Shift 1 - 9.00 AM -12.00 PM ; Shift 2 - 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form.
Click here to access the list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/LocalChapter/Assets/spoc_refdocs/Sep%202017%20Exam%20Cities%20-%20Default+alternate%20cities.pdf

 Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct Community certificate)
Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking.

HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively between 10 -16th September 2017. We will confirm the same through an announcement once it is published.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Hard and soft copy of Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). 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 shift, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It is not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, only basic details will be editable.


2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-
There are 2 modes of operation:

Option 1
1. You will pay fees to your SPOC.
2. Your SPOC will pay the fees to NPTEL on your behalf and also will provide us all details including photo, signature.
3. We will populate all the fields in the exam form.
4. Your responsibility will be to come to the exam form and verify that the details in the exam form are correct.

Option 2
1. In the exam form, you will fill all the details and also upload photo, signature.
2. Ensure that you had selected your college name correctly from the drop-down list in the form.
3. Payment of exam fees - click on the tab - 'PAY VIA SPOC'.
The SPOC has to now confirm to NPTEL that he/she will pay fees on your behalf.
If the SPOC says NO, you will be intimated via email.
Then it becomes your responsibility to come back to the exam form and make the payment.
If you do not pay the exam fees within the prescribed time, you will not be able to write the exam.

After submitting the form, in case you wish to change the name, date of birth, address, photo and signature.  Please login to http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/edit_details.php and make the changes till August  23, 2017.

The following data initially submitted cannot be changed –email id, course selected, shift, exam city, SC/ST. For changes in this email us at nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id and name. No changes will be entertained in these details after August  23 2017.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL TEAM

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New Announcement : Introduction to Research

Week 2 contents "Literature Survey, Experimental Skills" have been published. The assignment for the current week is also published which is due on 9th of August 2017 at 11:59 pm.

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Assignment Submission Date Extended

Dear Students,
The date of submission of assignment 1 has been extended to 7th of August 2017 at 11:59 PM

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Week 1 Assignment 1

Dear Students,
The assignment for week 1 is out. Please note the following. 

• The due date is 2nd of August 2017 at 11:59 pm.
  
• No negative marking
• All questions carry one point
• You may submit any number of times before the due date. The final submission will be considered for grading. 

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Groups in social medias: NPTEL is NOT responsible

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Content available

Dear students,
Contents for week 1 (Group Discussion on Research and Overview of Research) are now available for viewing for learners to get an idea about the content. Course start date remains unchanged.

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Welcome to Introduction to Research

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course " INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on July 24 2017. When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning.

Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_ge05
Course duration : 08 weeks
Dates of exam :  24 Sep 2017
Time of exam : Shift 1: 9am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2pm-5pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course.
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly