Principles of Digital Communications - Oct 28th exam - score has been published.

Dear learner

The results for Oct 28th exam have been published.

How to check the results:

 To check the results goto nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in
  1. Login with the course enrolled mail id.
  2. Clicking on the course name will redirect to the score board.
  3. Click on Exam Scores - Both the Assignment scores and Exam score will be displayed.
  4. Final score is the certification score

Calculation Logic for each course is provided in the same page.

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Note: For each course, reporting of issues comes with its own deadline (date and time) check the exam score/e-certificate as soon as you receive our notification.

Once the certificates are printed, reprint of certificates with corrections will be done only by paying additional fees.

To check the status of scores and e-certificates:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQP7g1yNTer1DlcBy3Q8THc3qHwpu2woFIo-OmJSwOoUVdo6Q2HioQCwbeMUaq0u7hRHwzURYCXpQof/pubhtml

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E-certificates

E-certificates will be available in nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in  3 days after the release of the scores.

You will be informed via mail and SMS about the release of the results and the release of e-certificates

If you are unable to see the scores/e-certificates, please write to nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in

If you want to bring any specific issues wrt the scores/e-certificates to our attention, you can file the issue in http://nptel.ac.in/noc/ (Available in candidates login at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/)

- NPTEL TEAM

Feedback for Principles of Digital Communications

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/CGykub

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team  

Principles of Digital Communications : Hall ticket for October 28, 2018 NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered and paid successfully for the October 28th 2018 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 download the hall-ticket.

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


If you are not able to find your hall ticket , kindly write to us at – noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on October 28, 2018. 

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.

Note:- 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 – noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

On-Screen Calculator Demo Link:

Kindly use the below link to get an idea of how the On-screen calculator will work during the online exam .


Note: On the fourth page ( Group Instruction ) Proceed to Next button will be enabled after 1 minute kindly wait .

Refer the video link below if you have any doubts 


NOTE: Physical calculators are not allowed inside the exam hall.

IMPORTANT:

Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city will not be done .What's mentioned in your Hall-ticket is final .

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

Thanks & Regards,

NPTEL team

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 12]

The learning material for Week-12 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude the discussion on DPSK and Channel coding.
The deadline for submitting assignment-12 is the midnight of 24th October.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Exam and Certificate Format : Principles of Digital Communications

Dear Learners,

Type of exam: Computer based exam 

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  17th October,2018 to 20th October, 2018. 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.

 
-NPTEL Admin

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 11]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-11 along with the assignment is now available. This module will introduce you to the basics of M-ary PSK, M-QAM, M-ary FSK  and Non coherent BFSK.
The deadline for submitting assignment-11 is the midnight of 17th October.

Best Wishes,
TAs

Live Session on October 5, 2018 at 5 pm

Dear Students,

Kindly note that we are having a LIVE streaming of the course – “ Principles of Digital Communications " by Prof. S. N. Merchant – IIT Bombay.

Details are shown below : DATE & TIME: Oct 5,2018 @ 5:00 PM LIVE STREAMING LINK: https://bit.ly/2Nkyie3

Click on the following link to fill the Google form and share questions you may want to ask the Professor.
Google form Link: https://tinyurl.com/yan3wftb

Students can also ask their doubts during the session through chat.

Students are encouraged to visit https://nptel.ac.in/noc/livesession.php for updates on the live sessions.


Best wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 10]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-10 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude the discussion on QPSK, Continuous Phase Shift Keying, MSK and M-ary ASK.
The deadline for submitting assignment-10 is the midnight of 10th October.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 9]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-9 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude the discussion on Binary ASK, PSK, Binary FSK and QPSK.
The deadline for submitting assignment-9 is the midnight of 3rd October.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 8]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-8 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude the discussion on Pulse shaping for zero ISI and Partial Response Signaling.
The deadline for submitting assignment-8 is the midnight of 26th September.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Solutions to Assignments 1-4

Dear Students,

Solutions to Assignments 1-4 have been posted. In the portal, you will find a link below the lectures saying "Assignment x - Solutions". Follow this link and click on "text version" to access the solutions.

Please note that Question-5 of Assignment 3 has been cancelled due to presence of typing errors.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Exam Registration extended till Sep 17, 2018 - 10:00AM !!

Dear Learners

We have received requests from colleges and learners to extend the exam form and hence it is being extended till 17 September 2018 10am. Payment can be done till 18 September 2018 10am. This is for courses that have exams on 28 October 2018.

Certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

-NPTEL Team

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 7]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-7 along with the assignment is now available. This module will introduce you to the basics of M-ary PCM/PAM and Line Coding.
The deadline for submitting assignment-7 is the midnight of 19th September.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Exam registrations


Exam registrations and payments are open for Oct 28 exam courses - till 17 Sep 10am.
Please register ahead to avoid last minute rush and disappointment.


Warm regards
NPTEL Team

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 6]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-6 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude the discussion on Quantization and introduce the concept of Differential Pulse code Modulation.
The deadline for submitting assignment-6 is the midnight of 12th September.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 5]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-5 along with the assignment is now available. This module will introduce you to the basics of Pulse Code Modulation and Quantization.
The deadline for submitting assignment-5 is the midnight of 12th September.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications : Due dates for Assignment 3 and 4 Extended!!

DearLearners

In view of the large scale flooding in Kerala, we are getting multiple requests from colleges through emails and forum requests. So we have decided to extend the deadline of the assignments.

Deadline for Assignment 3 and 4 has been extended till Sep 5, 2018.

-NPTEL Team

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 4]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-4 along with the assignment is now available. This module will introduce you to the basics of signal detection, MAP and ML detectors and the matched-filter receiver.
The deadline for submitting assignment-4 is the midnight of 29th August.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week 3]

Dear Students,

The learning material for Week-3 along with the assignment is now available. This module will conclude our study of information theory. It will introduce the topic of signal space representation of message signals. 

The deadline for submitting assignment-3 is 22nd August.

Best Wishes,
TAs.

Note regarding assignments

Dear Students,

While solving the assignment problems of MCQ type, it is advised that you examine all the given choices. It is possible that some questions have more than one correct answers.


Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications [Week-2]

Dear Students,


The learning material for Week-2 along with assignment has been made available today. This module will introduce you to the mutual information, discrete memory-less channels, Shannon's second theorem, differential entropy.

The deadline for submitting Assignment-2 is 23:59 hours, 15th August.


Best Wishes,
TAs.

Principles of Digital Communications - [Week-1]

Dear Students,

The course Principles of Digital Communication officially starts from 30th July 2018.
The course material for Week-1 along with Assignment-1 has been made available online and in the portal.
The deadline for submitting Assignment-1 is 23:59 hrs,15th August.

Happy Learning,
TAs.

Learning Material for Week-1

Dear Students,

Welcome once again to this course on Principles of Digital Communications.

The learning material for Week-1 has been made available today. This module will introduce you to the fundamental ideas of information theory.

We will also be posting an assignment based on this lecture material soon.


Best Wishes,
TAs.

Progressive Web App (PWA) for NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Dear Learners

We have launched the PWA version of the onlinecourses portal, that is mobile friendly.  Login and see the view for the courses you have enrolled to. It will work better with chrome.

NOTE: Mobile App won't allow you to join the courses and submit the assignments. This can be done only through desktop for now.

Step 1:  Goto https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/ through mobile

Step 2:  Allow notifications when it prompts. 

Step 3: Add it to the Home screen when it prompts / Add to home screen from chrome settings.

Step 4: Login with your enrolled id.

Here is the link for the short video: https://youtu.be/CPpVacKtHTw

 We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations on this. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better. 

Here is the link for the Feedback form: https://goo.gl/ScLq3m 

In case of any queries please write to us at : nptelexam@nptel.iitm.ac.in

-NPTEL Team

Reminder-1: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Learner:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the October 2018 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is open only to students who have enrolled in the course.  If you want to register for the exam for this course, login using the same email id used to enroll to the course.

Till the start date of the course, every Monday and Thursday at 5pm, we will sync the enrollment data on the exam form. If you enroll in between, please wait till the nearest Monday/Thursday to register for the exam. Once the enrollment is closed, the enrollment data will be completely loaded and you can register any time.

Dates of exam: October 28, 2018

Certification exam registration URL is: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/
Exam Session time: Forenoon: 9.00 AM -12.00 PM ; Afternoon: 2.00 PM - 5.00 PM
Examination Cities: Click here to access the list of exam cities: http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/images/examcities_final.pdf

Registration fees: Rs 1100/- per course exam

(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)Students belonging to the PwD category with more than 40% disability can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the option and upload the relevant Disability certificate.)

Last date for registration:  10th September 2018 10.00 am (Monday).

Mode of payment:  Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking or via SPOC of college

HALL TICKET:
The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively in the Mid of October 2018. 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%

Please check the Announcements section of your course for further details on this.


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:- you can add or delete courses and pay separately – till the date when the exam form closes. No changes will be entertained after that.   You can register for a maximum of 4 course exams ( 2 on Oct 7 and 2 on Oct 28. Same day of exam – you can write exams for 2 courses in the 2 sessions. Same center will be allocated for both the sessions).

2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-

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.

Please read the instructions carefully before submitting the form.
In case of any queries please write to us at noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL TEAM

Welcome to NPTEL Online Course:Principles of Digital Communications

Dear student

Welcome to NPTEL Online Courses and Certification!

Thank you for signing up for our online course "Principles of Digital Communications". We wish you an enjoyable and informative learning experience.

The course will begin on 30th July 2018. 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.

We will open registration for the exam soon after the course starts. A form has to be filled and the certification exam has a fee, which needs to be paid at the time of registration. Everyone who has signed-up for the course, including those who do not register for the exam, will continue to have access to the course contents.

There are two sections on the portal apart from the course content and assignment sections:
•    The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.     
•    The Ask a Question which is for everyone to ask questions and interact - If you have any questions regarding the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments or any question related to the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc, kindly write about this in the forum and the course instructor/TA will respond to it. Please use this well and participate to benefit from the course.

Details regarding the course:

Name of the course:  Principles of Digital Communications
Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_ee27/
Course duration : 12 weeks
Date of exams: OCTOBER 28, 2018
Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm
Exam for this course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Exam registration url - Will be announced shortly

Once again, thank you for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning - NPTEL team.