What are digital skills?

Increasingly essential in our personal, professional or civic life, digital skills are not just about being social media savvy or a coding genius. It’s also not limited to using a computer or a smartphone. It's a bit of all of these things, and much more!

Test yourself in 5 digital competence areas

The Pix tests assess your digital skills in 5 competence areas and 16 competences of the European Digital Competence Framework DigComp.

The 5 digital competence areas

Information and data

Search engines, information intelligence, fake news, organising files, using a spreadsheet...

Communication and collaboration

Emails, calendars, social media, collaborative work and document sharing platforms, digital public services...

Content creation

Editing text, image, sound and video files, copyright, programming...

Protection and security

Personal data, accessibility, workstation ergonomics, cybersecurity, environmental impact of digital technology, cyberbullying...

Digital environment

Solving technical problems, operating systems, IT and equipment, the history of IT...

Play an active part in your learning experience!

Providing proof

Carry out a task in your own digital environment, outside of the platform, and then report the answer on Pix!

Recreating real-life situations

Immersed in a situation inspired by real life, you are looking for the solution that applies to this context.

Interactive challenges

In an actual simulator under the exercise, you will carry out a task in an interactive zone, without having to leave the platform.

Digital knowledge

Answer questions with your own digital knowledge or look for it on the internet.

At any level

From beginner to expert

Pix is accessible at any level, from the most basic to the most elaborate questions.

An adaptive algorithm

The level of difficulty of the questions is adjusted to your level after each answer to help you improve faster. When you succeed, you move up to higher levels; if you have difficulties, you’ll get questions that are within your reach.

An evolutive framework

Technologies and uses evolve: our questions and framework too!

Earn pix for every correct answer

When you earn 8 pix in a competence, you level up! The ultimate goal? To reach an overall score of 896 pix corresponding to level 7 (and soon 1,024 pix, corresponding to level 8), which is the highest level in each competence.

What’s behind a Pix level?

Beginner

  • Level 1: Even if you need a little help from time to time, you’ve got some basics down.
  • Level 2: You’ve got the basics down, you don't need much to be independent.

Independent

  • Level 3: Even on your own, you do well in familiar situations.
  • Level 4: You are independent in all common situations. The digital world opens up for you!

Advanced

  • Level 5: You are comfortable with digital technology, even off the beaten track.
  • Level 6: Very proficient. You are often asked for help, aren't you?

Expert

  • Level 7: A new, unpredictable or difficult situation? Nothing can resist you! You use digital technology in an original way and develop your own solutions.
  • Level 8: You do not only use digital technology in an original way and develop new solutions: you even share them with your peers, who use them! What an expert ;)

Level 8 is coming soon! Only levels 1 to 7 are currently available.

To every questions, its variants

Two questions seem similar to you? Each question is created with its variants, which aim to test the same skill, with the same exercise but a different answer.

The goal is not to learn the answer by heart, but to really understand it. When you’ll take the certification, Pix will give you variants of questions that you have already passed.