NPTEL is an acronym for National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning which is an initiative by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science. NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams
NOC stands for NPTEL Online Certification. NPTEL has started offering online certification courses through its portal https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in. There are 20 hour as well as 40 hour courses offered twice a year.
Anyone 13 yrs and above may join an online course. Can I register for more than one course at a time? You may register for as many online courses that you like. For the number of exams that can be written, if we have 2 dates, then you can give exams for 2 courses.
For withdrawing from a course to which you have enrolled, login to the https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in portal using your email id used to enroll to the course. Click on the email id seen on the right top of the page. You will get a drop down in which there will be an option to unenroll from the course. To join another course, just go to the course you are interested in and click on "Register" button.
Those who have registered for a course will receive a confirmation welcome mail. After that, when the course begins and the weekly lessons are released, you will be notified via e-mail. Also, any news, announcements, etc. will be posted in the Announcement Page of the course. You can now start watching the videos. Please keep checking your course page for updates.
Yes. For certain online courses, the text transcription of the video material has been made available for free download at the following link. http://textofvideo.nptel.iitm.ac.in/ Please click on Courses. Here, you may search for your desired course and download PDF, MP3 or SRT files. If you do not find your choice of course in that list, please understand that the transcription work is in progress. Kindly bear with us.
We will most definitely take a note of your suggestion and consider that while designing future online certification courses.
All announcements and other vital information are posted in the Announcement page of the course. Also, e-mail and sms alerts will be sent periodically.
Your score will be posted online as soon as you submit the assignment. Using your unique password and log in id, you may check your score any time you like.
Yes. Certain online courses will have these types of assignments. These are meant only for assessing your learning from the course. Typically, these assessments will not carry any marks. The answers for such assignments will also be posted in the course page. Please note that the faculty decides on the type of assignments for each course.
Yes, the assignment scores also contribute to the overall score. The faculty will decide the percentage contribution of the assignments.
See answer to the previous question. The final score may be affected if the faculty member announces that the assignment scores are going to be counted. But this will not hamper your wirting the certification exam.
You may download the videos and watch them offline. We have files of smaller formats - flv and 3gp - available on out http://nptel.ac.in website where the same content will be posted. Also, for certain courses, transcripts are available which are relatively smaller in file size and easier to download. MP3 files (audio) of all online courses are also made available. Please go to the following link to access these files for free. http://textofvideo.nptel.iitm.ac.in/
You have to check with your college/Univerisity if they will take this into consideration and incorporate it into your certificate.
Yes. You may enroll for any online course no matter where you live and go through the course material.
Currently we do not have the provision to conduct exams for candidates outside India.
For candidates enrolled in a course, a link will be published for exam registration. Kindly follow the guidelines posted there.
No. Certification exams will be conducted on two consecutive Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. You will have to appear at the allotted exam centre and produce your Admit Card and Identification Card for verification and take the exam in person.
At the time of exam registration, you will be choosing exam date and centre. Once this data is submitted, you will not be able to go back and change this input. So if you miss the exam, you cannot take it on another date.
Once you have registered for a particular exam, it is final as the form will become uneditable. So please think and choose the subject carefully while you register for the exam. It cannot be changed once registered. Can I register for more than one online exam? Yes. You may participate in 2 online certification exams. The exams are conducted on 2 consecutive Sundays. So, you can take one exam per Sunday.
Currently, only the centres in th form can be chosen by individuals. If you belong to a college and more than 50 students are appearing for exams on the same date, the college Principal can write to us requesting for a centre in your city and we can try to arrange the same.
If the payment is successful, you will get an email saying so. Also, the registration from should become non-editable after that. You can go to http://nptel.ac.in/noc and check your status in the tab "Payment tracking". If your name is in the success list, it means your payment is confirmed.
Normally the final question paper is not released and hence the solutions also will not be released. If you have any specific doubts, you can write to the course instructor on the discussion forum of the course.
For an objective online exam, results and the e-certificate (go to the course at nptel.ac.in/noc) will be available 2-3 weeks after the exam date. For an offline subjective exam (paper and pen), the results and the e-certificate will be made available 5 weeks after the exam.
Please write to us explaining the reasons behind your contest. Give us the name of the course, date of exam, roll number and email id. We will forward it to the course instructor and his decision will be implemented.
The laminated hard copy of the certificate is usually sent by speed-post 2 to 3 weeks after the exam results are published. An email will be sent to the candidates saying that the certificates have been dispatched.
Yes. The score may be a combination of assignment and final exam scores, as the course instructor decides.
The e-certificate can be downloaded and printed and used. It is anyway e-verifiable.
At the time of registration of the exam, you will be asked to provide the address where the certificates need to be sent by post. Any request for change in address will not be entertained thereafter. So please give a permanent address while you register for the exam. It cannot be changed once registration is complete.
Please take a screen-shot of your certificate and send us an e-mail describing the error. If the error is genuine, we will send you another certificate.
Once the exam fee is paid, arrangements will be made for you to take the exam. Please try to take the exam as we will be unable to give a refund in case you cannot.
Sorry. Once you have registered for an exam, refunds will not be done.
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