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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Results have been published

For each course, reporting of issues comes with its own deadline (date and time)

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Feedback for Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases

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 : http://bit.ly/2CHDypN



We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team  

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Wish you all the best in future!

Dear students,
    Hope all of you had a good course and did your final exam well. Thanks for taking this course and for keeping the forum very lively! We increased the number of TAs from 2 to 4 this semester, and all of them were kept quite busy :) I hope you will continue to explore and work with blockchain with the many pointers we have provided -- the course was only an introduction into a broad range of topics and it is now up to you to make the most of this foundation.

For those who signed up with IBM Blockchain Platform through this course, the special cluster we had setup for registrants of this course will be sunset on May 1st. As mentioned earlier, once the cluster is sunset, you will lose access, so please make note of any information you need from the network you setup. You can still sign up for IBM Blockchain Platform on your own and get free credits, so I would encourage you to do that for any continued blockchain development.

Many of you asked for a follow-up hands on course. I don't have one at the moment, but if I find out about any good hands-on course, I will share with you. In the meanwhile, please do continue your blockchain journey.

Best wishes!
Praveen.

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases : Hall ticket for April 27 & 28, 2019 NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download.

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 12 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 12 live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-12 have been uploaded for the course "Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases".  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=93&lesson=124
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 Assignment for Week-12 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=93&assessment=145.
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-04-24, 23:59 IST.

As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 11 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 11 live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-11 have been uploaded for the course "Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases".  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=90&lesson=114
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 Assignment for Week-11 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=90&assessment=144
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-04-17, 23:59 IST.
 
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Assignment 9 corrections and re-evaluation

Dear students,
    As many of you correctly pointed out, there were some errors in the answers for assignment 9. We apologize for this and we should have checked these more carefully. The following corrections have been made and your scores have been re-evaluated.

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases : Exam Type and Certificate Format

Dear Candidate

Type of exam: Computer based exam 

You will have to appear at the allotted exam center 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 Mid of April 2019. We will notify the same through email.

On-Screen Calculator Demo Link:

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

https://tcsion.com/OnlineAssessment/ScientificCalculator/Calculator.html

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

 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% -74%: Certificate with tag "Elite" printed at the top

4. Final score between 75% -89%: Certificate with tag "Elite" tag and "Silver medal" printed at the top

5. Final score of 90% and above: Certificate with "Elite" tag and "gold medal" printed on it.

-NPTEL Admin

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 10 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 10 live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-10 have been uploaded for the course "Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases".  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=87&lesson=119
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 Assignment for Week-10 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=87&assessment=143
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-04-10, 23:59 IST.
 
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 9 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 9 live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-9 have been uploaded for the course  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=79&lesson=80
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 Assignment for Week-9 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=79&assessment=142
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-04-03, 23:59 IST.
 
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Error in Assignment 7 Question 1 Re-evaluated

Dear students,
    The option of 'Ripple' in assignment 7 question 1 was incorrectly marked as a correct choice in the answers. Ripple is a permissioned network. The only correct answer for that question is 'Ethereum'.

We did not have the ability to reevaluate considering Ethereum as the only correct answer. So, we have scrapped that question entirely and the assignment will only be graded on questions 2-10. Your assignment scores have been revised to reflect this. I apologize for this oversight.

We will shortly provide clarifications on some of the other questions asked on the forum. We constantly strive to make our questions as clear as possible and I sincerely welcome your feedback. For any questions where you feel the reasoning is unclear, please post on the forum and we will certainly respond and clarify.

Regards,
Praveen.

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Please clean up any networks that are not being used

Dear students,
    Many of you have created networks on IBM Blockchain Platform, which is excellent. In case any of you are not using your networks any more, can you please delete them? You can find your network in the resources dashboard (please delete only your network!). We have run out of capacity and there are more students trying to create networks. Deleting a network can help another student get access. 

In case you are not able to find the option to delete, please post on the forum with your email address and network name. We can delete it for you. Appreciate your help and cooperation in this regard.

Thanks and regards,
Praveen.

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 8 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 8 Video live

Dear students,

The lecture videos for Week-8 have been uploaded for the course . The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=71&lesson=72
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 8 Assignment live

Dear Learners,

Assignment for Week-8 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=71&assessment=140
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-03-27, 23:59 IST.
 As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 7 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 7 live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-7 have been uploaded for the course  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=63&lesson=64
The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 Assignment for Week-7 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=63&assessment=139
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-03-20, 23:59 IST.
 
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Next Batch of Students Added for IBM Blockchain Starter Plan Access

Thanks to the TAs, the next batch of students who signed up in the google form have been added and granted access. There were a large number of sign-ups, so the TAs decided to add them today itself rather than waiting until Monday. If you signed up on the google form before today morning, please try to create your network now.

For those who are seeing this late, please sign up in the google form posted earlier. We will add you in the next batch in a few days.

Regards,
Praveen.

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'Deploy via Toolchain' option disabled on IBM Blockchain Starter Plan

Dear students,
    Many of you have posted on the forum that the 'Deploy via Toolchain' option is not working. The 'deploy via toolchain' has been disabled. You can follow the instructions here to run your marbles app on IBM Cloud (or any other app that you want to develop): https://github.com/IBM-Blockchain/marbles

Use option 1 in the instructions mentioned in the link.

Regards,

Praveen.

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Create Your Blockchain Networks using IBM Blockchain Starter Plan

Hello everyone,
    We have granted access to everyone who has signed up for IBM Blockchain Starter Plan through the google form we shared. Please follow the steps below to create your network (its free and no credit card needed):

1. If you received an invite by email, please accept it. Some accounts get activated automatically (I haven't figured out the reason for this), so dont worry if you didn't receive an invite. Please ensure that this email is registered as an IBM ID (you can sign up here, if you haven't already: https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=urx-19776)

2. Go to https://console.bluemix.net and login with your IBMID and password. You will be taken to a dashboard. Check that your account on the top right is '1734855-IBM'. If not, switch to this account.

3. Click on 'Create Resource' on the right and then find the 'Blockchain' tile and click on it. Note, do not select the tile that says 'Blockchain Platform 2.0'.

4. In the next screen you will see details of the blockchain network that is going to be provisioned for you. Please change the name to 'Blockchain-<Your name>' so that the network has a unique identifier and will not be rejected due to conflicts. This will also allow us to track and view your network, in case you face problems and want us to help you with your network.

This screen should say 'London' as the region, 'NPTEL-Blockchain-Spring2019' as the organization and 'dev' as the space. Do not change these fields. Click on 'Create' at the bottom.

6. Your network should get provisioned. Click on 'Launch'. You'll be taken to your network. After this you should be able to follow my demo lectures 25 and 26 and also play around with your network / develop and deploy your blockchain apps.

I wish you a great experience learning and working with your blockchain network! :) 

Regards,
Praveen.

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 6 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 6 Live

Dear students
The lecture videos for Week-6 have been uploaded for the course  The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=54&lesson=55

The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
 
Assignment for Week-6 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=54&assessment=138
The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday,2019-03-13, 23:59 IST.
 
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Reminder 2 for Exam Registration - April 28, 2019 exams

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Assignment 4 Solution now available

Dear Learners,

Detailed Solution for Assignment 4 is available now in the Course Outline Week4 section. Please go through the solution and in case of any doubt post your queries in the forum.

Regards

Course TA

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Access to IBM Blockchain Starter Plan

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 5 Feedback Form

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Re-evaluation for Assignment - 3

Dear Learner,

The Re-evaluation for Assignment - 3 has been done. Please check your score in the progress tab.

Thanks,
Course TA

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 5 Live

Dear students

The lecture videos for Week-5 have been uploaded for the course Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases. The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=45&lesson=46

The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
Assignment for Week-5 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=45&assessment=136

The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-03-06, 23:59 IST.
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 4 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 4 Live

Dear students

The lecture videos for Week-4 have been uploaded for the course Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases. The lectures can be accessed using the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=36&lesson=37

The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).
Assignment for Week-4 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:
https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=36&assessment=134

The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-02-27, 23:59 IST.
As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Assignment 2 Solution and FAQ now available

Dear Learners,

Detailed Solution for Assignment 2 is available now in the Course Outline Week2 section. Please go through the solution and in case of any doubt post your queries in the forum. Additionally, we have prepared three frequently asked questions documents which are available in the Course Outline FAQ section (FAQ1, FAQ2, FAQ3). As the documents are prepared based on the common queries, it is requested to the learners to go through those documents before asking the same in the forum.

Regards

Course TA

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 3 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 3 Live

Dear students

The lecture videos for Week-3 have been uploaded for the course Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases. The lectures can be accessed using the following link:

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=28&lesson=29

The other lectures in this week are accessible from the navigation bar to the left. Please remember to login into the website to view contents (if you aren't logged in already).

Assignment for Week-3 is also uploaded and can be accessed from the following link:

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=28&assessment=133

The assignment has to be submitted on or before Wednesday, 2019-02-20, 23:59 IST.

As we have done so far, please use the discussion forums if you have any questions on this module.

-NPTEL Team

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 2 Feedback Form

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 2 LIVE

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 1 Live

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Week 1 Assignment LIVE

Dear Learners,

Assignment 1 is now available on the portal.
Due date for the assignment is 2019-02-13, 23:59 IST.
Assignment URL : https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=10&assessment=131

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases: Week - 1 Feedback

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Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases - Reminder 1: REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

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Blockchain Architecture and Use Cases : Week 1 is live now!!

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Assignment 0 - LIVE

We welcome you all to this course. The assignment 0 has been released.
This assignment is based on prerequisite of the course. Kindly note that marks obtained in this assignment will not be considered for the final assessment.

You can find the assignment in the link below:

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_cs26/unit?unit=129&assessment=130    Due Date 04/02/2019 - 23:59 IST

You can submit the assignment multiple times before the due date. All the best !!

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Blockchain Architecture and Use Cases - REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

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Welcome to NPTEL Online Course : Blockchain Architecture Design and Use Cases