Mentor addition and Enrollment details in Online Course portal (Not in SPOC login)

[Local Chapter Announcement Forum]

Dear SPOCs,

For your kind information:

To access the following features, you have to login to https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/explorer with your SPOC mail id

• Enrollment details of the current courses
• Adding mentors to the courses
• Apply Scholarship

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Mentor Addition by SPOC:

- is no longer available in SPOC login.

- Please go to online courses portal as described above.

STEPS to follow

Click on Courses (Top left corner of the page)

This will list the Course wise enrollment.

---> Selecting the Course name will show the candidates enrolled to that course.

---> Select the mentor/mentors for this course and Click on ’Save’

Faculty while enrolling, should have chosen Role as 'Faculty';

only then can he/she be selected as mentor for that course by the SPOC.

If the faculty has not done this, please go to Profile > Edit Profile and make the necessary changes.

Criteria for mentor:

• A faculty can serve as a mentor for 2 courses only

• A mentor can mentor for maximum of 50 students

After selecting the mentors for the courses, these selected mentors of the respective courses will be available
under 'Mentors' Tab of the Online courses page.

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How do students select their mentors?

1. Log into course page with his/her login details. After the login, the below page will appear.

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2. The student should select the "Mentor" Option in the top right corner as highlighted above. 

3. Once the "Mentor" Option is selected, the following will be displayed.

4.The student has to click on the drop down (shown above).
Here the student will find the list of Mentors from their Local Chapter.
Please note that the drop down contains the names and email ids of the Mentors.

5.The student has to select the mentor of their Local Chapter.
Once the selection is done, they should click on the "Set Mentor" Option that is shown above in Step 3. 

6.Once the "Set Mentor" is clicked, the Mentor gets selected by the student.

The Action Item of the student closes with this step. 

Steps for Mentors

a) Once the student has undertaken the above steps, the Mentor has to now login into the course page with his/her details. 

b) Once the Mentor has logged in to the course page, they have an option "Mentee List" which is visible on the top right corner of the page, 

the Mentors have to click on this option.

​c) Once they click on the "Mentee List", they can view the page which shows all the student details and progress.

Please ask your mentors and students to follow the above given procedures

How to Apply for Scholarships

We have not received confirmation from our sponsors on the scholarship funds yet.

Click on Manage --> All Local Chapter Students in the SPOC login of the course portal page

The candidates will be listed here.

The Last column is the Scholarship.

Choose the candidates from your college whom you recommend for scholarship and Save the page

As informed earlier, depending upon the funding from our Sponsors, scholarship shall be approved.

We shall keep you informed on the same.

Please write to us for any clarifications.

Reference Document -- > SPOC login features via Course portal(available in Local Chapter page)

- NPTEL Team