IGNOU MNML 001 Practical for PGDEME: ten items, one folder, one viva
The IGNOU MNML 001 Practical is the 4-credit Practical: Electronic Media course of the Post Graduate Diploma in Electronic Media (PGDEME), assessed through a production portfolio of ten radio, television and writing items that you hand in at your study centre, followed by a viva voce.
Straight answer for PGDEME learners
The IGNOU MNML 001 Practical is marked out of 100: 70 for a handwritten and recorded production portfolio of ten items and 30 for a viva voce held generally at the study centre. A minimum of 40% is required to complete the course. The files go on one CD, DVD or pen drive, and the practical fee is Rs 300.
MNML-001 is the only practical course in PGDEME. The MA in Journalism and Electronic Media (MAJEM) shares MNM-002 to MNM-004 and the MNMP-101 project with PGDEME but takes MJML practicals instead, and the MA in Journalism and Digital Media has its own MNML-012 Digital Journalism practical. If MNML-001 is on your PGDEME course list, this page works from its November 2022 practical manual.
Across practical courses, we meet learners who handle their theory papers comfortably and then stall on the practical side. In MNML-001 that side is the whole course: ten production items and a viva, and the manual prints no question paper for it.
Many learners realise only late in the session that their programme carries a practical component. In PGDEME it sits in the course table as MNML-001, and the manual says you fill the examination form for it like any other course of the programme.
Where each part of this guide sits
- Ten items, one folder, one viva
- Status, result and the practical file
- The ten items with marks and limits
- A last check before the folder leaves home
- The 30-mark viva voce
- Your own voice, footage and photographs
- Handwriting, files and the disc
- The manual and the old 32-credit PGDEME
- When you can sit the practical, and the fee
- How 100 item marks become 70
- Submitting the folder at your study centre
- Theory reading for MNM-001 to MNM-004
Status, result and the practical file: three questions
Questions PGDEME learners search
How do I check IGNOU practical status for MNML-001?
Use IGNOU’s Assignment/Project/Practical Awards/Marks Transmission Status page on isms.ignou.ac.in with your enrolment number and the programme code PGDEME. For the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical, marks reach SED on the award list your study centre coordinator sends, so the status can stay empty until that list has gone and been processed.
When does the IGNOU practical result for MNML-001 appear?
The MNML-001 marks join your result once the consolidated award list from the study centre reaches the Student Evaluation Division. If they do not appear after the term-end result, the July 2026 Common Prospectus lists practicalsed@ignou.ac.in and 011-29572212 for practical marks; write with your enrolment number, PGDEME and MNML-001, and attach your submission acknowledgement.
Practical marks often reach the grade card after the theory marks, and for a learner in a final year the diploma stays pending, which can hold up a job offer or a later admission. PGDEME is a one-year diploma, so for its learners MNML-001 is a final-year course.
Can I buy a ready MNML-001 practical file?
No. We do not sell MNML-001 portfolios, scripts or recordings, and the manual asks you to make your own, warning that a portfolio may be rejected for large-scale copying. What we publish are the study guides for MNM-001 to MNM-004, listed in the theory reading section at the end of this page.
The ten IGNOU MNML 001 Practical items, with marks and limits
The IGNOU MNML 001 Practical portfolio has two major components in the manual’s words, radio or audio production and television or audiovisual production, with three written pieces between them. Section 9.0 lists ten items:
Ten portfolio items, marks and limits
| No. | Item in the manual | Limit set | Marks | What you hand in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Write, narrate and record a short story for radio or podcast | 3 to 5 minutes | 10 | Written script and audio file |
| 2 | Write and record one radio Public Service Announcement on a contemporary issue | Up to 150 words | 10 | Written script and audio file |
| 3 | Review of a film you saw recently | 400 to 600 words | 5 | Written work only |
| 4 | A piece on your favourite television news anchor, with reasons | 300 to 500 words | 5 | Written work only |
| 5 | Analysis of a documentary you watched recently, strengths and weaknesses | 400 to 600 words | 5 | Written work only |
| 6 | Record a Piece to Camera (PTC) for a TV news package on a development news story | None printed | 10 | Written PTC script and video file |
| 7 | Script of a radio news bulletin using at least three sound bites | About 600 words, 5 to 6 minutes | 10 | Written script only |
| 8 | Video story made only from still photographs, no voiceover or commentary, with a title | 2 to 3 minutes | 15 | Video file only; photographs clicked by you |
| 9 | Interview with a local politician, sports person, artist, social worker or academician, for radio or TV | 5 to 10 minutes | 10 | Audio or video file only |
| 10 | A finally edited television news package on an issue or story of your choice | 1.5 to 2 minutes | 20 | Written package script and video file |
Built from section 9.0 of the MNML-001 Practical Manual (November 2022); item wording shortened, limits and marks as printed.
Read down the columns and three facts stand out. Items 8 and 10, the photo story and the edited news package, hold 35 of the 100 item marks between them. Eight items need handwritten text (items 1 to 7 and item 10), and six need a media file on the disc (items 1, 2, 6, 8, 9 and 10). Item 7 asks for the written script only, so its sound bites, at least three, have to show in the script itself.
We have seen work come back because it ran past the length a course set. MNML-001 sets a window for nine of its ten items, from the 150-word ceiling on the PSA to 5 to 10 minutes for the interview; only the PTC in item 6 carries none.
Many learners assume the topic has to be one printed in the course document, word for word. MNML-001 prints no topic list for its production items: item 6 takes any development news story, and item 10 any issue or story of your choice.
On project courses we have seen analysis written on assumed data, with no real survey behind it. The integrity point carries over to MNML-001 item 9: the manual asks you to conduct and record the interview yourself, with a real local figure from one of the five groups it names.
A last check before the folder leaves home
Run this list on the day you hand in the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical, item by item:
Portfolio checklist before the study centre
- Ten items present, numbered as in section 9.0 of the manual.
- Handwritten scripts for items 1, 2, 6, 7 and 10, and handwritten pieces for items 3, 4 and 5.
- Six media files on one CD, DVD or pen drive, labelled with your details and tested on a second computer.
- Photographs in item 8 clicked by you, with no voiceover or commentary in the video.
- Each item inside the limit section 9.0 sets: words for items 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7, minutes for items 1, 7, 8, 9 and 10; item 6 has none.
- Annexure 2 title page filled in and signed, study centre and regional centre codes checked.
- A full copy of the folder and the files kept at home.
- Practical course fee of Rs 300 paid through Samarth by the date in the SED notice for your term-end cycle.
Across programmes we see three causes again and again: information reaches learners late and differs by centre, practicals assume time and physical presence that distance learners rarely have to spare, and the file gets treated as formatting when its job is to show applied learning. In MNML-001 the folder date comes from your study centre, the viva is held generally at the study centre, and the ten items are meant to show that you can apply what the theory courses taught.
The learners who do well begin early, check the rules with their own centre, keep dated drafts and raw recordings, and can explain each page they hand in, in their own words. For MNML-001 that starts with asking the study centre coordinator for the folder date before you record item 10.
What the 30-mark viva voce checks
The viva voce carries 30 of the 100 MNML-001 marks, close to a third, and the manual places it generally at the study centre, with external experts invited for it. The manual lists no viva questions. Its learning outcomes are the best guide to what an examiner can ask you to show: that you can analyse audio and audiovisual news and current affairs material, write for audio and audiovisual programmes, handle basic equipment for audio and audiovisual news production, and produce basic audio and audiovisual news programmes.
Practical lectures for MNML-001 reach you through Gyan Darshan, Gyan Vani, Gyandhara, the Gyan Darshan webcast and other online platforms, in synchronous and asynchronous modes, with schedules sent by e-mail, SMS or other online tools. The manual sets no attendance requirement for these lectures.
Learners often treat the viva as a formality, though it usually carries real weight, and a neat folder scores poorly when its owner cannot explain the choices in it. On the MNML-001 award list the viva column sits beside the portfolio column, so practise talking through each of your ten items.
Many learners are unsure whether their course includes a viva. For MNML-001 it does: section 10.0 of the manual builds the course total from the production portfolio and the viva voce together.
Practical dates are fixed and announced locally, and a learner who stops checking can lose the slot and be pushed to the following cycle. For MNML-001 the study centre coordinator tells you the date, time and venue, so keep the phone number and e-mail on your IGNOU record current.
Your own voice, footage and photographs
Note vi of the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical manual is direct: make your own production portfolio and do not copy it from anywhere, because a portfolio may be rejected if evidence of a large amount of copying or other malpractice is found. Item 8 adds that the photographs in the video story should be clicked by you only, and item 1 asks you to write, narrate and record the story yourself.
Ready-made practical files circulate online and get handed in with just the name and enrolment number changed. When several learners at one centre submit the same text it is easy to spot, and the viva exposes whoever cannot explain the work; in MNML-001 the viva is held with invited external experts.
Some learners hand in AI-written text as it is, which is one reason the same topics keep turning up. MNML-001 asks you to make your own portfolio (note vi) and to write each piece, the film review and documentary analysis included, in your own handwriting.
Many learners lift text from websites and hand it in with no plagiarism check. The MNML-001 manual warns that heavy copying can get a portfolio rejected, and a web review copied out by hand remains a copy.
Handwritten scripts, recorded files and one CD, DVD or pen drive
A typed script breaks the first format rule of the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical manual. The notes under the item table set the rules that decide how the portfolio looks:
- All written material, scripts included, must be handwritten in your own handwriting (note i).
- The production portfolio can be prepared in English or Hindi (note ii). The PGDEME Programme Guide agrees: the programme is offered in English, and the University allows the production portfolio to be submitted in Hindi as well.
- All the items are compiled in one folder, with your details on the front page (note iv).
- One CD, DVD or pen drive holds the audio and video files; attach it to the portfolio and write your details on it (note v).
- Keep a copy of the whole production portfolio, written exercises and audio and video files, with you (note vii).
The manual names no file format, resolution or binding beyond the folder. Save the files in formats a study centre computer can open, name each one by item number, and play the disc or drive on a second machine before you hand it in.
Language trips learners both ways: Hindi-medium writers struggle with English broadcast terms, and English-medium writers who pick Hindi find their vocabulary thin. MNML-001 lets you prepare the portfolio in either language, so choose the one you can also speak comfortably at the viva.
Learners regularly ask us how many copies to make and where each one goes. For MNML-001 the manual’s answer is one folder with one disc or drive for the study centre, plus a full copy that stays with you.
Some learners spiral-bind whatever they hand in. The MNML-001 manual asks only that the items be compiled in a folder, and it names no binding.
What the MNML 001 practical manual still says about the old 32-credit PGDEME
The MNML 001 practical manual is dated November 2022, and its programme chapter describes PGDEME as it stood then: 32 credits, six theory courses of 4 credits each including MJM-020 and MJM-024, and a 4-credit project, MNMP-001. The current PGDEME Programme Guide and the July 2026 Common Prospectus describe a 40-credit programme: MJM-120 and MJM-124 at 6 credits each, MNM-001 to MNM-004 at 4 each, MNML-001 at 4, and the project MNMP-101 at 8.
MNML-001 is a 4-credit course in all three documents, and the programme guide sends you back to the practical manual for its details, saying the manual is available only in digital format at eGyanKosh. Neither newer document prints its own portfolio or evaluation rules for MNML-001, and the programme guide refers you to the manual, so sections 9 and 10 of the manual remain the rules to work from. A few slips in the documents change nothing you submit: the manual’s copyright page names the School of Health Sciences, its notes jump from ii to iv, Annexure 2 prints “Electronics Media”, and the prospectus text calls PGDEME eight courses of four credits each while its own table totals 40 credits with 6- and 8-credit courses.
Learners end up holding three formats: the handbook’s, a counsellor’s, and one from a senior or a sample found online. For MNML-001, the manual is the document the PGDEME Programme Guide names, and your study centre, which receives the folder and tells you about the viva, settles anything local.
Advice from a friend at another study centre can mislead, because the submission process can differ from one centre to the next. MNML-001 leaves the receiving of folders and the viva date to your own study centre, so its word is the one that counts.
When can a PGDEME learner sit the MNML-001 practical?
For the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical, section 7.0 of the manual sets a minimum gap: you can appear in the term-end examination of MNML-001 only after one year of your registration. Its own examples are a January 2022 admission sitting the December 2022 term-end examination at the earliest, and a July 2022 admission sitting the June 2023 one. Read the later cycles the same way: a January admission reaches the practical in December, a July admission in June of the next year. The programme runs for a minimum of one year and a maximum of three.
The ignou practical fee for MNML-001 follows its credits. MNML-001 is a 4-credit course, so the up-to-4-credit slab of Rs 300 applies under the fee rule in the July 2026 Common Prospectus for learners from the January 2023 admission cycle onwards, beside Rs 200 for each theory course. For the December 2026 term-end examination, the Student Evaluation Division notice of 18 September 2026 gives 30 November 2026 as the last date for the project, internship and practical course fee, to be paid only through your IGNOU Samarth Portal login, and says no fee will be accepted after that deadline. The prospectus adds that an examination fee once paid is neither refundable nor adjustable.
What the manual does not print is a last date for the portfolio itself. The SOJNMS practical manuals for MJML-220 and MJML-221 give 30 June and 31 December; the November 2022 MNML-001 manual gives no date and says only that your study centre will tell you about the viva voce after you submit. Ask your study centre coordinator which date they will accept folders for your term-end cycle.
At our desk, 70 to 80 percent of learners start work only in the month before a date falls due. For MNML-001 the dated deadline in the SED notice is 30 November 2026 for the practical course fee, beside the term-end examination form dates; the folder date comes from your study centre.
A belief we hear often is that IGNOU will push each last date back by a month, so waiting costs nothing. The SED notice for the December 2026 practical course fee says no fee will be accepted after 30 November 2026, so plan the MNML-001 fee around that date.
Learners regularly mix up the Rs 300 and Rs 500 amounts. MNML-001 carries 4 credits, so the Rs 300 slab is the one that applies to it; Rs 500 is the slab for practicals above 4 credits, such as the 8-credit MNML-012 of MAJDM.
100 item marks, 70 portfolio marks: how the IGNOU MNML-001 Practical is scored
The IGNOU MNML-001 Practical is marked out of 100, and the manual prints two splits that do not line up at first sight. The item table above adds up to 100. Section 10.0 then says the production portfolio is evaluated out of 100 marks, 70 marks for the production portfolio and 30 marks for the viva voce, and Annexure 1, the award list the study centre sends to the Registrar, Student Evaluation Division, carries a Production Portfolio column of 70 and a Viva-Voce column of 30, with a maximum of 100.
Where the 100 MNML-001 marks sit on the award list
| Part | Marks | Where it happens |
|---|---|---|
| (a) Production portfolio | 70 | Evaluated generally at the study centre |
| (b) Viva voce | 30 | Generally at the study centre, with invited external experts |
| Total (a + b) | 100 | Award list sent to the Registrar, SED, Maidan Garhi |
The manual does not say how the 100 item marks are brought down to 70. Treat the item marks as the weight each piece carries inside the portfolio: if the conversion is proportional, the 20-mark news package carries four times the weight of the 5-mark film review. Section 10.1 sets the minimum at 40% of the maximum 100 marks for completing the practical course successfully. The manual sets no tutor marked assignment for MNML-001; the programme guide counts six tutor marked assignments in all, and PGDEME has six theory courses.
Across practicals, the written part is where most marks slip away, and it is also the part learners can repair most easily. In MNML-001 that written part is large, since eight of the ten items carry handwritten text.
Learners often describe what they watched and stop there, while evaluators look for the link to a concept from the course. For the MNML-001 film review and documentary analysis, that means judging the work against ideas from the manual’s content list, such as programme formats, shot composition or presentation techniques.
Submitting the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical folder at your study centre
The IGNOU MNML 001 Practical goes to one place: your study centre. Note viii says to submit the production portfolio there, and the study centre will inform you about the viva voce. Section 8.1 describes the coordinator’s part: receive the portfolio, arrange its evaluation, facilitate the viva with invited external experts, and send a consolidated award list for all candidates to the Registrar, Student Evaluation Division, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068.
The manual prints no postal, e-mail or online route for MNML-001. It does print a title page as Annexure 2, and its fields are the ones to copy onto the front of your folder:
- IGNOU and PG Diploma in Electronic Media (PGDEME)
- Programme Code PGDEME and Course Code MNML-001
- Your name and enrolment number
- Address, phone number and e-mail
- Study centre name and code
- Regional centre name and code
- Date and your signature
Title pages often carry a wrong enrolment number or wrong programme or study centre details. Annexure 2 of MNML-001 asks for both the study centre and the regional centre with their codes, so check each code against your admission record before you write it.
Some learners e-mail their work instead of using the route the course names. MNML-001 names one route, the study centre, and the audio and video travel on the disc or drive attached to the folder.
Without a receipt in hand, a learner whose marks go missing has no proof of handing anything in. Ask your MNML-001 study centre for a dated acknowledgement of the folder and the disc when you hand them in.
Theory reading for MNM-001 to MNM-004
The manual expects you to have gone through the theory courses before the practical and says its practical topics are discussed in detail in their study material. These guides cover the four MNM theory courses of PGDEME that the practical draws on.
MNM theory guides for the four production courses
| Theory course | Guide in our store | Product details |
|---|---|---|
| MNM-001 Broadcast and Digital Journalism | MNM 1 Study Material and Book (PGDEME) | English medium, printed help book sent by courier |
| MNM-002 Audio Production | MNM-002 Book (Audio Production) Study Guide | 2026 edition, English medium, unit-wise notes on all 4 blocks |
| MNM-003 Digital Photography and Videography | MNM-003 Book (Digital Photography and Videography) Study Guide | 2026 edition, English medium, unit-wise notes on all 4 blocks |
| MNM-004 Audiovisual Production | MNM-004 Book (Audiovisual Production) Study Guide | 2026 edition, English medium, unit-wise notes on all 4 blocks |
These are study guides for the theory courses. We do not sell MNML-001 portfolios, scripts or recordings, because the practical has to be made by you.
For the IGNOU MNML 001 Practical, record early, write by hand and be ready to talk through each of your ten items at the viva; the November 2022 manual, not a sample from another learner, is the document to work from.
IGNOU and SOJNMS files read for this page
- MNML-001 Practical Manual (Practical Manual: Electronic Media), SOJNMS, November 2022, on eGyanKosh
- PGDEME Programme Guide (English), SOJNMS
- Practical Manual, Audiovisual (MJML-221), SOJNMS, for the comparison of submission dates
- IGNOU Common Prospectus July 2026, section 8.28 (PGDEME), section 3.64 (MAJEM) and the practical fee rules
- IGNOU announcements, SED notice of 18 September 2026 on the project, internship and practical course fee for December 2026
- IGNOU programme page, PGDEME
- IGNOU Assignment/Project/Practical Awards/Marks Transmission Status
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