Key Indicator - 7.2 Best Practices

Among many best practices, The institute is submitting these two best practices for assessment.

1. To maintain regular academic activity efficiently.
2. To ensure availability of data to the stake holders.
3. To monitor the student progress in every semester.
4. To reduce paper work and improve ease and efficiency in processing the data.
5. To provide transparency of the data and the activities

Digital transformation refers to the use of digital technology to better serve the stake holders. Managing the activities of the institution in a technology-enabled way will ensure effective functioning of the institution. Electronic data management provides ready and relevant information to stake holders for decision making. For any educational institute, academic activity is the major decision making component and proper maintenance & process of this data leads to success of the institute. In this direction, the college has a well-established system to standardize and automate various processes across all the departments to ensure availability and transparency of data.

• RAJCAMS, the college academic management system streamlines the regular academic activity of the institution. It is an intranet based application and can be accessed from anywhere in the institution. Instead of maintaining student data partially and redundantly at different places, RAJCAMS was created to maintain the information properly and efficiently. The system is developed to maintain and provide information on the fly regarding academic activity of the institution. Authenticated users have access to the system and authorized users are permitted to enter/modify the data. RAJCAMS provides information to all levels of administration/management for decision making.
• RAJCAMS is completely developed by a team of staff members of the institute which is working towards making it as a College Management System to include every activity of the institute.

• Student's personal information and academic history is maintained through this academic management system.
• Faculty member, after each class, enters the attendance in the portal. If the student is absent for any class on that day, message will be sent to parent about his absence by evening.
• Class in-charge prepares monthly attendance using RAJCAMS and sends as message to parents.
• Sessional and assignment marks will be sent to parents. Final marks and attendance will be prepared based on the weightages given to two sessional and assignment tests.
• Reports of poor performers and irregular students are available to HoD/ class in-charges and they counsel those students and intimate the parents, if required.
• Teacher's diary showing what is taught in each class is available through RAJCAMS. Proper delivery of courses can be ensured and teachers can be counseled regarding the course delivery.
• Feedback on teachers regarding courses taught can be taken through the portal. Summary report can be generated for each teacher, section and semester.
• Faculty profile can be maintained and updated including their achievements, papers published and workshops attended.
• Dash board gives information to the Principal and the HoD regarding students and staff absent on that day.
• Options for provided for student, faculty, course and enrollment management.
• Attendance, marks reports, teacher's diary, detention and condonation lists are available for printing.
• Biometric daily and monthly reports of students and staff are available.

• Transparency of data and activities provided.
• Well-managed, non-redundant and instant information for decision making.
• Efficient monitoring of regular academic activity of the institute.
• Right information at right time is available to right persons.
• Satisfaction of the stake holders regarding availability and efficiency.

Previously, Student Information System (SIS) was used to maintain student marks for assignment, sessional tests and to generate detention and condonation reports. Attendance was maintained and entered by the teachers manually to generate monthly reports which was tedious. RAJCAMS manages entire academic activity efficiently and generates instant reports.

• Sophisticated Server required to store & maintain the data.
• Provision required in each department for entering data after the classwork.

The required resources are immediately provided by the management to enable the stakeholders to utilize the system effectively.

• Student and faculty personal information need to be entered in server.
• Faculty should enter the data regularly after the class.
• Department in-charge should monitor the locking and unlocking of data.

Initially, it took some time to make the staff adapt and utilize the system for the benefit of better functioning. Later, they realized the advantage and started using it without any problem.

An autonomous institute has freedom to change rules, regulations and curriculum. Customized college management system is required for autonomous institutions. Every institute should develop it's own system.

Digital learning is any type of learning that is accompanied by technology or by instructional practice which makes effective use of technology. Digital learning enhances the learning experience rather than replacing traditional methods altogether.

• To make learning with no restrictions of time, place, path and pace.
• To make students as self-directed learners.
• To gain knowledge of the latest trends and technologies.
• To learn concepts from faculty of prestigious institutions to become globally competent.
• To do research work in the thrusted areas.

Digital Learning is learning facilitated by technology that gives students some control over time, place, path and/or pace of learning. Digital learning strategies include online learning, blended learning, flipped learning, e-learning, mobile learning etc. or a combination of them. Digital learning is one of the crosscutting missions of the college. Students from different levels & backgrounds need training to improve their skills in addition to traditional classroom teaching. The college has been working with the aim of making it a centre of excellence. Considering these requirements, the institute encourages students and staff to do online/blended courses offered by various prestigious institutions.

1. Online Learning

Online learning enables students to learn anywhere, anytime and any subject using ICT. The college NPTEL local chapter is ranked in top 30 colleges in the country among 3300 NPTEL local chapters. Students are motivated to do NPTEL online courses with the help of video lessons and web content in addition to their regular classes to improve learning and in turn to enhance their skills. The faculty members are also encouraged to do online courses to improve teaching-learning process. NPTEL local chapter monitors the entire process.

2. Blended Learning

Blended learning combines face-to-face interactions with online activities. RVR&JCCE is one of the few technical institutes in AP to act as Remote Centre (RCID:1353) to IIT Bombay and conducts MOOC courses and FDPs. Participating teachers attend live lectures, tutorial and lab sessions at remote centre The lecture transmission and live interaction takes place in distance mode using A-VIEW technology through Internet. The institute organized various workshops/fdps in association with NITTR. The institute became member of the IUCEE College Consortium and students and staff are encouraged to complete blended courses offered by IUCEE.

3. E-learning

E-Learning is a learning system based on formalized teaching with the help of electronic resources. E-learning is used for training staff and students. The institute organized training programs like C, C++, Python, Rivet structure etc. for students of all branches, in association with APSSDC as part of skill development. The institute conducted training program on RPA (Robotic Process Automation) tool by AAI in association with TCS. 8 weeks internship training program was conducted in the campus by creating a BOT lab in 2019. Various other training programs are conducted to enhance technical skills of students and staff.

• 68 students received gold certificate, 118 students received topper certificate and 3, 211 NPTEL certifications done by students and staff.
• Received AAA Rating once and AA rating 4 times for NPTEL local chapter of the institute.
• Other achievements by the students in model building etc.
• Rate of placements increased from 41% to 76%.
• 4 faculty members received class A award by IIT Bombay for task based training conducted through e-Yantra Lab Setup.
• In design and fabrication of vehicle contests, students received 11 prizes.
• Received prize money/vouchers in hackathons, topcoder challenges and in finding bugs in applications.
• Faculty received top performer/SAP Excellence/top performing mentor certificates from IIT Bombay/Madras.

• Providing lab slots to accommodate extra lab hours for online training.
• Providing slots in the time-table to give training in regular time.
• Motivating the students to stay beyond working hours.

• Transport required for learning beyond working hours.
• Hardware and software required for face to face interaction

The college management provided the required resources and the problems are solved with co-operation of staff and students by providing suitable slots and staying beyond the working hours, if required.