NAAC Guidelines
NAAC Guidelines
NOTE: All NAAC coordinators (institute and departmental) should read every point (guidelines)
mentioned below very carefully and clarify with the DVV committee any doubts they have. Do
not request access for any document without reading all guidelines.
General guidelines
1. All the text in blue color in this document are links to respective documents/sheets. This can be opened
by clicking on the specific links.
2. All the tables provided by NAAC and our NAAC coordinators are listed in this document.
3. The Data Verification and Validation (DVV) committee has decided to make a few of these tables as
Google Forms and few as Excel Sheets.
4. Column E in the “NAAC-SUMMARY” sheet in this file indicates if the table is in the form of Excel
sheet or Google Form and column F indicates who will do it.
5. The tables which are in the Google Forms will not be editable by any one other than the DVV
committee. This will be filled from the Google Form Responses sheet after all data is collected.
6. The institute criterion coordinator will be given View access to the Google Form Responses sheets for
regular verification of data filled and follow-up with departmental criterion coordinator.
7. The data entered in the excel sheets should be in chronological order ONLY.
8. The excel sheets of all criteria where the column name says “link to ….” need not be filled. Such
document proofs need to be uploaded as explained in the “Uploading File” section below.
9. If the departmental criterion coordinator has any doubt or ambiguity then please contact the respective
institute criterion coordinator.
Access policy to specific criterion files, folders and dashboard
1. All access is provided to institute Domain Id ONLY
2. All HoDs will have Edit access to ALL Criterion files and folders of their respective departments
3. All the department criterion coordinators will have access to the files and folders of respective criterion
ONLY
4. The institute criterion coordinator will have Read/View access to all departments’ particular criterion
files and folders. For example, Criterion-1 institute coordinator will have Read/View access to all
departments’ Criterion 1 files and folders.
5. Two separate dashboards (NAAC 2021 Dashboard for Department and NAAC 2021 Dashboard for
Faculty) are prepared for collection of data. One is to be filled by individual faculty and the other is for
all departments. Departmental Dashboard is accessible ONLY by institute and departmental NAAC
criterion coordinators. Faculty dashboard can be accessed by every faculty in Institute using their mail
id ONLY.
Guidelines for uploading file
1. The files to be uploaded on Google Forms are to be Image (for Certificates, receipts, letter, etc. or PDF
(for activity reports).
2. The size of file and type are mentioned in all the Google Forms. A sample document is provided in the
dashboard for some of the criteria. Please refer to it before uploading any file.
3. Some of the Excel sheets also require departments to upload files. All such files should be uploaded in
the respective department folder provided on the NAAC Dashboard. Please refer to the Supporting
document list and specific guidelines before the file is uploaded in the department folder.
4. Mostly the data is asked for the last five years. So, make the PDF year wise. The name of the file can be
like this: <Table No.>_<Department>_<Academic Year>.pdf. For example 1.1.1A_Mechanical_2016-
17.pdf
5. The proofs in the file uploaded should be in the same order as the data is entered on the Excel sheet. For
example, if we are uploading student internship data of 100 students, then the certificate of the first
student should be first in the PDF file also.
Regards