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New Piwik Certification program #6172
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Hi, https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/ is also a great source of inspiration. They offer free online video tutorial with exam questions. If you access the website at some specific dates you can even get a certification for free if you get at least 80%. The main drawback of those exams are that people are copying and pasting the questions and passing the exams without being competent on those solutions. The best way I found so far is the following one: having a huge database of questions and pick them randomly at each exam+adding a practical exam with open ended questions. The person in charge of reviewing the open ended questions will be a Piwik representative, each part is worth 50% of the final grade. A 80% grade success is necessary in order to get the certification. I am available in order to contribute to writing the questions and provide help for writing the practical exam. |
@NanorPiwik interesting ideas. I guess we could start small with one set of questions and plan to increase it over time - or alternatively create directly a few hundreds of questions? I stumbled upon the Linuxfundation certification done online as well: http://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification (the video is nicely done). anyone interested in this topic or can volunteer your help, feel free to comment |
Hi Matt, I had the chance of finding some time to work on the Piwik certification this week. I am at about 75 questions. But actually it is tough to keep continuing writing questions without knowing what may be the right topics to write about. Top 20 steps Piwik users go through in the first 6 months of use 1 - Auditing the existing system: this step consists in looking at what has already been set on a current website or application. This step includes: looking at the version of Piwik, where the code has been inserted, if any bespoke code has been added, goals set… |
Thanks @NanorPiwik for your notes and suggestions! this makes a good starting point for approaching an analytics tool like Piwik and establishing a process to make the most of the data. What do you think should be our next step to create a Piwik Certification? |
Hi Matt, Well I think that we are still in what you mentioned as "Proposed steps".
Then we could move forward :) I wish I will have my 100 question document finished soon Cheers |
Hi Matt, |
Hi guys, I'm really interested in this project. I believe that Piwik need a Professional Certification how Google Analytics. The next step could be to create the Academy similar to Google Analytics where the users can see videos, make exercises and download documents. Also I think that the Piwik team can appoint "boss or ambassador" in each country, for example, NanorPiwik could be ambassador in France and I could be ambassador in Spain. Each ambassador it should prepare documentation in your language for a new users. Conference? Merchandising? Guides? Videos? Badges? The price? I think that $50 is ok and only must renew if Piwik have a lot of important changes. I go to write a post in a blog about Piwik, I want make an appeal to all spanish users that use Piwik, asking for recognition to this Certificate. Bye, Enrique. |
@evelascosilva please don't copy copyrighted content here, specially not from GA offerings/pages. Could you please remove your content? "El uso de nuestros Servicios no te convierte en titular de ninguno de los derechos de propiedad intelectual de los mismos ni del contenido al que accedas. Solo podrás usar el contenido de nuestros Servicios si te autoriza su titular o si está permitido por la ley. " |
At the Berlin Piwik meetup another way of recognizing Piwik exceptional contributors offering commercial services was discussed, I proposed the term "Community Professional", perhaps this could be a requirement/distinction in the certification. See https://trello.com/c/DDIKEKDY/18-12-20-12-50-how-do-piwik-org-project-and-piwik-pro-company-sit-together-are-organized-discussing-the-new-team-page |
Hi @MagicFab, Sorry for to copy this content but only was an idea 👍 If I can make something...I'm your man! ;-) |
The best way to implement a database of questions as I think Nanor suggests is to use a computer adaptive testing system and/or require the test be taken proctored. Both solutions would be quite easy to implement.. As to what should covered by such a certification assessment, it will need to satisfy employers.. There should be an effort to identify and survey those organizations who might hire either as freelancer and ask what evidence of skills they think are vital. |
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Hi there, |
Hi guys, where do things stand with regards to piwik certification? Suggested study materials? |
In collaboration with many Piwik experts and enthusiasts, we finally established an official Piwik Certification Program! Here is the link to the certification website: https://certification.piwik.org Please find the official announcement and additional information about the certification exam here: https://certification.piwik.org/piwik-launches-certified-professional-credential/ I wish you all the best with passing the exam and becoming officially recognized as a Piwik Certified Professional! Cheers, |
@StefanKoning although it's great news, it's disappointing this shows up without a single previous comment, invitation to participate or other related comment on this issue report. It seems @NanorPiwik may have been involved in this as I see his picture among the three testimonials, and Innocraft / @mattab lead this effort (as the agreement is governed by laws in New Zealand). It would have been nice to show more transparency here but I can think of a few reasons why this didn't happen. I noticed the date of birth is a requirement at registration, unfortunately this will be filled by invalid information if it remains a hard requirement. Could this be dropped from the registration form? Very exciting to see this finally land! |
Hi @MagicFab Fyi: we involved a lot of people in the process, but we didn't make it public as we didn't have to. And obviously the questions & answers are confidential and secret. We did involve the active Piwik team members and contributors along with a few selected and trusted Piwik & Digital Analytics experts. @StefanKoning would be good to remove the "Date of birth" requirement if possible If you take the exam and have constructive feedback please share with us privately and we'll be pleased to improve the certification 👍 |
🎉 Closing this 3 year old issue as the official Piwik Certification is live! 🎉 Awesome work everyone |
@mattab thanks for clarifying, glad my intuition was right. I don't mean to minimize your effort and work, specially with the great results I see. As you know I am not too keen on providing private feedback even when on payroll when it involves free open source software, but I'll take the opportunity if it presents itself, thanks again for your hard work :) |
@mattab and now the program is gone again? |
Gone since May, apparently : https://matomo.org/faq/general/is-there-a-matomo-certification-or-training-program/ |
Yes, we have decided to discontinue the program because it didn't have the traction we hoped for, it wasn't up to date anymore, and some of the questions were not really helpful. We also released the training videos and plan on releasing more resources in the future (still hiring someone to help us: https://matomo.org/digital-analytics-expert-content-writer/ ) |
The goal of this issue is to discuss and brainstorm how to create a Certification for Piwik to certify staff on Piwik software platform and general Analytics mindset.
Certification topics
Proposed steps
Later steps
Inspirations
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