Introduction to research - Oct 7th exam - score has been published.

Dear learner

The results for Oct 7th exam have been published.

How to check the results:

 To check the results goto http://nptel.ac.in/noc/
  1. Login with the course enrolled mail id and date of birth as password (DDMMYYYY)
  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-1vQaoYL29evv_mFdA5pWadHGmtI-uXwWJKmLlcLusgddlcgtjzjVIpzgN1dzNOILZ551Zjb0W95xcOTo/pubhtml

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E-certificates

E-certificates will be available in http://nptel.ac.in/noc/  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 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/qGKwrE

We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team  

Week 8 Feedback : Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Introduction to research

Dear Participants, 

We have received "419 " submissions for Assignment 7 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 7 is "2018-09-26, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

Introduction to research : Feedback on Text Transcripts (English) of NPTEL videos

Dear Learners,

We have uploaded the english transcripts for this course already.

We would like to hear from you, a quick feedback for the same. Please take a minute to fill out this form.

Click here to fill the form

-NPTEL Team

Week 8 LIVE - Introduction to research

Dear Learners,

Content for Week 8 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Oct 03, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

Introduction to research : Hall ticket for October 07, 2018 NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download

Dear Candidate:

1. If you have registered and paid successfully for the October 07 NPTEL Online certification exams, your Admit Card/Hall ticket is now available at 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. Click on the download tab under the hall ticket for the Oct 7 exams, from the link.

2. You can also download it from the alternate link given below:
https://cdn3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/57861/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 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 07, 2018. 

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a original ID card, carry it with you to the exam venue (The exam centre address is displayed in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.
 In case you don't get the hall tickets for any particular course, please write to  noc@nptel.iitm.ac.in .

IMPORTANT:

1. Change of shift, course, exam center, exam city is NOT POSSIBLE.
2. You WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to write the exam if you are showing up at the exam center which is not allocated to you by mistake or by intention.
3. Candidates will not be allowed to write the exam without Hall ticket and proper id proof. Proof on the mobile phones or soft copy of hall ticket is NOT PERMITTED.

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

Week 7 Feedback : Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.



Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Introduction to research

Dear Participants, 

We have received "436 " submissions for Assignment 6 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 6 is "2018-09-19, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

29 learners and 80 discussions - Will we get more "Learner Contributions"?

Dear All,

Over the past 10 days the number of learners contributing to the "Learner Contribution" forum has increased to 29 (from 11) and discussions have doubled to 80 (from 39).

It is a good time to recheck whether hypothesis of having 120 learners participating in forum or 240 questions or 500 questions is going to be valid based on this data. Anticipating this behaviour, the course team has decided to provide an alternate target for setting a separate assignment based on this forum. The revised target is:

  • If the number of participants in the forum doubles in this week, OR
  • If the number of discussions in the forum triples in this week.

While participating in the forum please do remeber that you have to review the first question and its feedback posted by your peer. Currently many are trying to just provide answer to the second question asked. Also, please do post questions related to weeks 4,5 and 6 too. This will be a good strategy to consolidate the learnings from the past few weeks.

~
Course Team

Exam and Certificate Format :Introduction to research

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 24 - 26th Sep 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

Week 7 LIVE - Introduction to research

Dear Learners,

Content for Week 7 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Sep 26, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

Week 6 Feedback : Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment : Introduction to research

Dear Participants, 

We have received "679 " submissions for Assignment 4 and  "514 " submissions for Assignment 5  so far. 

The due date for the assignment 4 and 5 is "2018-09-12, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL Team

Week 6 LIVE - Introduction to research

Dear Learners,

Content for Week 6 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Sep 19, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

100% more learner contributions in the past 3 days - Have you contributed?

Dear All,

Over the past three days of posting the last update, today we have seen exactly a 100% increase in the learner generated questions . i.e. there are a total of 22 questions posted by 11 people. The total number of discussions in the forum have increased to 39. We encourage you to keep posting in this forum, and as promised there will be one question based on this forum in the next week's assignment.

This is a kind request to all those who have already contributed questions, please also do review of the question posted by your peers. We are seeing that the review process is helping learners in understanding the misconceptions as well as revision of the content.

Sustaining the Momentum

The course team will keep this discussion activity open till end of the course.

Here is an interesting offer for all participants to motivate them in joining this discussion. If the learners continue to contribute in this forum by generating questions on the entire video contents of this course, the course team can think of keeping one graded assignment based purely on this discussion activity. However, there are certain conditions that you need to fulfill.
1. 120 different learners contribute questions in this discussion forum activity - "Learner Contributions", OR
2. Total number of unique questions reach 250, OR
3. Total number of discussions reach 500

Why these targets?

The rationale of selection of these numbers are based on the activeness of the course till now.

  • The course has a total number of enrollments of 5,575 and in the first week 1205 (~ 22%) had submitted the assignments. Assuming 10% of people submitting assignments become active in this discussion forum, we are expecting close to 120 people to take part in the discussion. The target of total number of people is rounded to nearest 10 (Criterion 1). 
  • If 120 people participate, then the minimum expected questions are 240. Thus the total number of questions targeted is rounded up to nearest 50 (Criterion 2).
  • Based on current posts to people ratio, we see that the ratio is close to 4:1. Thus if we are expecting 120 people to participate that should generate 480 discussions, and the number of discussions targeted is rounded up to nearest 100 (Criterion 3).
We will be regularly updating you with these numbers so that all of us will be aware of how close (or far) are we from the target.

Regards
Course Team 

WEEK 5 - FEEDBACK - Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Reminder For Assignment :Introduction to research

Dear Participants, 

We have received "953" submissions for Assignment 2 and  "416" submissions for Assignment 3 so far. 

The due date for the assignment 2 and 3 is "2018-09-05, 23:59 IST.".If you are yet to attempt it, do it at the earliest so as not to miss the submission deadline.Also please note that the marks of these assignments will be considered in evaluation of the final grade.

-NPTEL

Learner Contributions have started coming in - Have you contributed?

Dear All,
We are seeing learners contributing to the course by participating in the "Discussion Activity - Learner Contributions".

Till now 6 learners have contributed 10 questions and have subsequently generated 12 discussions.There are also 21 learners who have subscribed to this discussion activity.

Wondering how to participate?  
Do any of the following:

  • To just go through posts - Subscribe to the group to get alerts on the discussion happening here
  • To post your contribution - Follow the instructions in this announcement
  • To participate in the discussion - Respond to any of the posts by rating the quality of first question and answer using this rubric and answering the open question posted by your peer.    
What will you get by this participation:
  • If you just go through posts - Possible quick revision of the entire content
  • If you contribute a post - A revision of the content that you used to create the question
  • If you reply to a post - Revision of the content that your peer has gone through, Knowledge of how to do peer-review, Increased understanding of the content discussed in the question by evaluating the feedback
  • Chance to answer a question in the upcoming assignment that will be based on this discussion   
We hope that this will motivate you to participate in this discussion.

Regards
Course Team

Week 5 LIVE - Introduction to research

Dear Learners,

Content for Week 5 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Sep 12, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

WEEK 4 - FEEDBACK - Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

A new discussion activity in Week 4 for learners

Dear Learners,

Along with the assignments, we have released a new activity to engage more learners in Week 4. Titled "Learner Contributions", this is a discussion activity that requires you to frame two questions based on any one of the video content in the course till now.

This activity is available as a main tab inside the course and the instructions for posting and discussion are also provided. A sample discussion has already been posted in this forum. 

Technically, what you are doing in this forum is called "Peer Review" and this is an important part of the research process. Good academic research always requires the researcher to share their ideas with peers (both from same and different disciplines) and get/provide reviews at every possible point.

To further incentivize the participation in this forum, we are planning to keep one assignment question based on the discussions happening in this forum in Week 5 (or alternatively in Week 6 based on the total number of discussions that get posted). 

We sincerely hope learners will make use of this opportunity to engage in discussions with each other.
  
Happy Discussions!!!

Regards
Course Team

Week 4 LIVE - Introduction to research


Dear Learners,

Content for Week 4 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Sep 12, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

Exam Registration extended till Sep 3, 2018!!

Dear Learners

We have received requests from colleges and learners in Kerala to extend the exam form and hence it is being extended till 3 September 2018 10am. Payment can be done till 4 September 2018 10am. This is for courses that have exams on 7 October 2018.

We are facing some problem with the exam form currently. Our team is working on fixing it. Apologies for the inconvenience. So please do login and try later on the day today.

-NPTEL Team

WEEK 3 - FEEDBACK - Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Introduction to research - Due dates for Assignment 2 Extended!!

Dear Learners

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 2 has been extended till Sep 5, 2018.

Week 3 Live - Introduction to research

Dear Learners

Week 3 Lecture Contents and Assignment are now available on the portal.

The due date for Assignment is: 2018-09-05, 23:59 IST.

WEEK 1 - FEEDBACK - Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for enrolling to this NPTEL course and we hope you have gone through the contents for this week and also attempted the assignment.
We value your feedback and wish to know how you found the videos and the questions asked - whether they were easy, difficult, as per your expectations, etc
We shall use this to make the course better and we can also know from the feedback which concepts need more explanation, etc.

Please do spare some time to give your feedback - comprises just 5 questions - should not take more than a minute, but makes a lot of difference for us as we know what the learners feel.


Thank you.
- NPTEL team

WEEK 2 - FEEDBACK - Introduction to research

Dear learner

Thank you for continuing with the course and hope you are enjoying it.
We would like to know if the expectations with which you joined this course are being met and hence please do take 2 minutes to fill out our weekly feedback form.
Would help us tremendously in gauging learner experience.


Thank you.
-NPTEL team

Week 2 Live - Introduction to research

Dear Learners,

Content for Week 2 is now available.


Due date for assignment is on Aug 22, 2018 - 11:59 PM.

-NPTEL

Introduction to research :NPTEL signs MOU with AICTE for Faculty Development Program

Dear Learners

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) the statutory body and a national-level council for technical education, under Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NPTEL have signed an MOU on July 24, 2018 whereby advanced NPTEL online certification courses are approved for Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by AICTE.

According to the above notification, the course " Introduction to research " is approved for Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by AICTE.

Hope this benefits faculty in more ways and we invite you to participate and enjoy the process of learning through NPTEL.

For more details please visit: http://nptel.ac.in/AICTE_FDP/

NOTE:  The AICTE FDP is applicable from Jul-Dec 2018 semester onward. This will NOT be applicable to previously completed NPTEL Certification Courses.

-NPTEL Team

Introduction to research : Week 1 is live now!!

Dear Learners,

The video content and assignment for week 1 is made available early for viewing to get an idea about the content but the actual start date remains unchanged.
Link for the course: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_ge12/
Assignment link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_ge12/unit?unit=16&assessment=103
Due date for the assignment: 2018-08-22, 23:59 IST.

Happy learning!!!

-NPTEL Team

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 07, 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:  August 27, 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 end of September 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