Pix is an online public service for the evaluation, development and certification of digital skills, initiated by the Ministries of National Education, Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

This national certificate attests to digital skills: it is intended for all citizens: schoolchildren, students and people engaged in working life.

Pix was introduced in the 2017-18 year as a replacement for C2I (levels 1 and 2), as well as B2I (school, college, high school).

PIX: 35,000 certifications, 27 million tests taken

As of June 2019, Pix users have completed over 27 million adaptive tests across the 5 major digital skill areas.

Since December 2017, more than 2,500 certification sessions have taken place in the various approved centers throughout France.

More than 35,000 Pix certifications, recognized by the State and the professional world, have been issued, enabling the skills of their holders to be recognized.

Pix is deployed and used to diagnose and support the development of digital skills in 1,500 organizations such as schools, universities, public bodies and administrative services, as well as private sector structures and companies.

A repository of 16 skills, organized into 5 areas

In addition to a global score, a certified person obtains a level of competence for each of the 16 competences. Thus, unlike the C2I which was binary (you either have it or you don't), PIX is "necessarily" validated by all candidates, but with a general score and a level in each skill.

Some questions assess "simple" knowledge, but others require the candidate to perform a series of actions to find the answer to a question that will determine whether or not he or she has the skill.

The questions asked are adapted to the level of the user, to maintain motivation and to value the acquired knowledge.

Some examples of statements that can be found in the PIX test

• "What year was Barack Obama born?"
• "In the village of Montrésor (37, France), on which street does the impasse de la Mécanique lead?"
• "How big is this file?"
• "We can ask a search engine to remove search results whose content harms our privacy.
• "Provide the URL of the form (in pdf format) to be filled out for the Qwant search engine.
• How many pages does the text consist of?"
• "Julian had his email account hacked because his 6 character password is easy to guess. Here is the email access: you have to find his password .How many unread messages are there?"
• "On April 6, 2014, this Wikipedia page was modified. In what country was the author of this contribution located?"

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