General sets of rules related to Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task

• Every student has to submit Periodic Progress Report (PPR) Individually (Not in Team).

• Each student has to submit minimum four Periodic Progress Reports (PPRs).

• Save and Submit button on PPR: After filling PPR, if student click on Save button, student’s PPR will be saved and he/she can edit the same in future, If student click on Submit button, student’s PPR will be submitted and he/she will not be able to edit the same in future. So be careful while submitting the PPRs.

• If any student wants to furnish any other details apart from answering above four questions as part of their PPR, he/she can give details via uploading specific file.

• Once student submits PPR, his/her respective guide (Internal AND/OR External) must have to make comment on it.

• If any HOD/Principal is also interested to make comment on any PPR, they are also permitted to do so (optional).

• At the end, students have to take photocopy of submitted PPRs (along with comments from their respective guides – internal as well as external and/or HOD/Principal) and have to attach the same with the final project report.

• Note: Students are also required to do PPR activity during semester 8, with respect to their semester 8 project work. Other rules will remain same as above. 

Other useful blog articles related to PPR are:

What are the objectives of Periodic Progress Report (PPR)

What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What to answer by students under set of four questions of each PPR?

What is the role of faculty (Internal guide/HOD/Principal) in PPR activity?

Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guidelines or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

What is the role of faculty (Internal guide/HOD/Principal) in PPR activity?

The detailed role of faculty (Internal guide/HOD/Principal) in PPR activity are as below:

• Make students aware about the objective of this activity.

• Faculty (Internal guide/HOD/Principal preferably internal guide)  MUST has to verify the PPR and uploaded attachments as submitted by each student. 

• Faculty may give their suggestion/inputs/comments related to PPR and attachment. 

• Faculty may give their opinion for PPR under comment box via using COMMENT and REVIEW features. (Please refer: 

  What is difference between COMMENT & REVIEW button on PMMS portal, under faculty/HOD/Principal account?)

• The same tasks can also be performed from HOD/Principal’s account.

• Based on the inputs from internal guide/HOD/Principal each student has to take necessary action.

• External guide and External mentor can also comment on this activity.

Other useful blog articles related to PPR are:

What are the objectives of Periodic Progress Report (PPR)

What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What to answer by students under set of four questions of each PPR?

What is difference between COMMENT & REVIEW button on PMMS portal, under faculty/HOD/Principal account?

What is difference between SAVE & SUBMIT button on PMMS portal, under student's account?

Note: For any query or confusion please refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guidelines or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

What to answer by students under set of four questions of each PPR?

Student's have to submit PPR by answering set of following four questions in each PPR.

The questions are as below:

1. What progress student has made in the project related to their final year IDP/UDP?

(Give brief note about the work student has did in a period of 14 days, and mention the status of progress)

2. What Challenges student has faced and how they are trying to solve them?

(Student has to list out the various challenges he/she had faced, with respect to the task allotted to him/her in a project)

3. What support student needs?

(Mention the details related to the kind of support he/she needs against the kind of challenges he/she had faced in progress of project)

4. Which literature student has referred and its analysis?

(List out the all literature, which student has referred in a period of every 14 days, with respect to need of project, challenges student has faced etc.)

Other useful blogs:

What are the objectives of Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What is difference between Save & Submit button on PMMS portal, under student's account?

What is difference between COMMENT & REVIEW button on PMMS portal, under faculty/HOD/Principal account?

Who will review the tasks or activities as performed by students on PMMS?

Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guideline or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

In Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task, each individual student (Not a team, so it is an individual student activity) has to give update with respect to his contribution in the progress of project at regular time interval (generally of 14 days), by answering set of four questions in each PPR.

The questions are as below:

1. What progress student has made in the project related to their final year IDP/UDP?

2. What Challenges student has faced and how they are trying to solve them?

3. What support student needs?

4. Which literature student has referred and its analysis?

Note: 

• Each student has to submit MINIMUM four set of PPRs, to which his respective guide (Internal and/or external) must have to comment/review. 
• Each student has to take photocopy of four PPRs along with the comment given by respective guide/HOD/Principal and has to attach in his/her final project report. 
• More then four PPRs from students are also permitted.

Comment/Review to student's PPR can also be made by HOD/Principal as well.

IF COMMENT OR REVIEW TO THE STUDENT'S PPRs WILL NOT BE MADE EITHER BY GUIDE/HOD/PRINCIPAL THEN STUDENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO GENERATE PMMS COMPLETION CERTIFICATE.

Other useful blogs:

What are the objectives of Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What to answer by students under set of four questions of each PPR?

What is the role of faculty (Internal guide/HOD/Principal) in PPR activity?

What is difference between Save & Submit button on PMMS portal, under student's account?

What is difference between COMMENT & REVIEW button on PMMS portal, under faculty/HOD/Principal account?

Who will review the tasks or activities as performed by students on PMMS?

Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guideline or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

What are the objectives of Periodic Progress Report (PPR)

Periodic Progress Report (PPR) task has been added to the PMMS system, with following objectives:

 

1. Each student will be able to update his/her progress in the project at regular interval of time.

2. Internal guide & the external mentor (if any), can see the progress of students and can comment on the progress and problems via this online platform.

3. HOD and Principal can maintain the track record of students’ progress, as well they can also comment (optional). 

Other useful blogs:

What to do in Periodic Progress Report (PPR)?

What to answer by students under set of four questions of each PPR?

Objective of PMMS portal

What activities students are required to do on PMMS portal?

Semester wise PMMS activities for students

Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guideline or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

What activities students are required to do on PMMS portal

All student/teams are required to carry out following project activities on PMMS Portal during semester 7 and 8.

PMMS Tasks for Semester 7 & 8:

Semester 7	Semester 8
1.       Student registration 2.       Team formation 3.       Periodic Progress Report (PPR) 4.       Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) generation activity 5.       Design Engineering – Canvas activity 6.       Final project report upload. 7.       Uploading the plagiarism search report 8.       Completion Certificate generation	1.       Student registration 2.       Team formation 3.       Periodic Progress Report (PPR) 4.       Business Model Canvas (BMC) and its report upload 5.       Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE) 6.       Final project report upload. 7.       Uploading of the plagiarism search report 8.      Completion Certificate generation

Details about all above activities is described in detail, in the GTU PMMS guidelinedocument.

The linked guideline document is common for semester 7 and 8 PMMS activities, so for common activities (which will be carried out during both semesters) like as to Student registration, Team formation, Periodic Progress Report (PPR), Final project report upload, Uploading the plagiarism search report and Completion Certificate generation common details as described in respected pages will be applicable during both semesters.

As stated above students have to perform all activities as listed in the table, during each of said semesters.

For all above activity, each student have to register with his details at http://projects.gtu.ac.in/ then after the approval from respective HOD/Principal students will get password via email to work on PMMS portal.

NOTE: INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH FULL GUIDELINE DOCUMENT AT ONCE, STUDENTS AND FACULTY/HOD/PRINCIPAL ARE ADVISED TO REFER TO SPECIFIC PAGES OF ACTIVITIES AT THE TIME BEFORE THEY ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO PERFORM IT, SO AS TO UNDERSTAND ACTIVITIES AND THEIR OBJECTIVE WELL ENOUGH.




Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guideline or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.

Objective of PMMS portal

GTU Innovation Council (GIC) is working on an innovative platform development, where in the real time status of each student can be monitored and observed by students, internal guides, HOD, principal as well as by university. Students can update about their progress in project and guide can comment on their status, progress and problems.

The objective of PMMS portal is to develop a system for helping the students to get appropriate help and mentoring online and to help them work more systematically on their project. This will be used for all projects being carried out by the students in all BE colleges/institutes, affiliated with GTU.

This platform will help the students to remain in active contact with their team members, their faculty guide and industry-mentors (if any). On the site, the students will be able to update their progress in the project and on which the guide & the external mentor (if any), can comment on the status, progress and problems. This will increase collaboration and co-creation while improving novelty of their work.

University is further planning to launch project mentoring activities for specific projects by various industry experts, R&D professionals, and external faculty apart from GTU colleges. Mentoring can be done based on the specific area of the said projects. Platform is been developed to invite mentor from anywhere in the world, interfaces will be generated to filter projects based on various technological fields as per interest and technical expertise of the mentor.

PMMS is a platform which covers multiple activities being carried during final year of B.E. It covers activities such as to student registration, team formation, Periodic Progress Report (PPR), Patent Search & Analysis Report (PSAR) generation activity, Design Engineering – Canvas activity, Business Model Canvas (BMC) and its report upload, Patent Drafting Exercise (PDE), Final project report upload, Uploading the plagiarism search report, Completion Certificate generation.

Various functionalities have been generated on PMMS platform for catering the need of students, faculty, project guide and external mentor. And further more features will be keep on adding to make it more user friendly and result oriented.

Note: For any query or confusion refer GTU PMMS guideline, other project related guideline or contact GTU. The information on this blog is just for information.