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Digital Assessment SoftwareTest Item BankingAccessibility ToolsOpen Source Testing

Transform the online testing experience, maximize learners’ potential, and deliver secure and reliable digital assessments. The TAO testing platform gives you the freedom, control, and support to evolve with today's learners.
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Setting the Standard for Excellence in Digital Assessment Software

Leverage TAO’s centralized assessment software to streamline the accreditation process and ensure your school’s programs are up to standard.
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Setting the Standard for Excellence in Digital Assessment Software

Bring together the technology you need to create deeper engagement across all parts of your business in one powerful, secure digital assessment system.
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A Modern & Robust Testing PlatformTAO leverages powerful cloud providers including GCP and AWS to offer best-in-class security and worry-free scalability during critical testing campaign windows while providing a sleek and modern user experience.Learn More
Build Accessible AssessmentsUniversal design, WCAG compliance and assistive tools for audio, visual, and keyboard support help level the exam playing field and offer greater opportunities to empower more learners.See TAO's Approach
Uncover Insights You Can Act OnOur comprehensive digital assessment software unifies data from the entire assessment cycle to help you uncover learning trends and pin-point areas to improve student performance outcomes.Find Out How
Get Started on Your TermsGet started with the TAO online testing platform out of the box, have us customize it to your needs, or enhance the assessment software with your own functionality.Compare Solutions

Accelerating Innovation in Online Testing

Our computer based testing platform is ideal for organizations that want the freedom to control their assessment software – from authoring to delivery to reporting – plus the flexibility to choose from scalable solutions to package it together.
Platform Capabilities
Platform Solutions
BUILD
Test Authoring
Empower assessment authors with easy tools, 21st-century item banking, and smart workflows that raise the standard of testing content.
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Deliver
Rostering & Delivery
Manage and deliver assessments to candidates via test-centers, groups or the LTI standard for a secure, integrated testing experience.
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Analyze
Results & Reporting
Leverage actionable testing data to drive teaching improvements, enable personalized assessment, and promote better learning outcomes.
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Score
Manual Scoring
In addition to TAO’s automatic scoring capabilities, TAO Grader enables easy and collaborative open response marking to help improve the reliability of test scores.
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Platform
TAO Accelerate
Hit the ground running with your testing content using TAO’s turn-key solution to support up to 2,400 deliveries.
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Platform
TAO Ignite
Our most popular TAO edition offers the same off-the-shelf feature set as TAO Ignite, plus supercharged scalability and dedicated account management.
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Platform
TAO Enterprise
Leverage a completely customized, deeply integrated computer-based testing platform and scale your assessment programs to new heights.
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"We are excited about the innovation TAO brings, and how it empowers us to create attractive and engaging items that make these assessments more effective."
The French Ministry of Education
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"The transition to TAO Enterprise and TAO Cloud allows us to make a shift of focus from technical resources and capacity assurance problems to areas of assessment content development – allowing us to search for and develop flexible and enhanced technical solutions for more complex and innovative assessment formats."
Lithuania's National Agency for Education
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"Open Source was not the only factor in the RFP process. We liked TAO’s degree of customization and that it has a demonstrated history of success in other large-scale implementations. Those factors all contributed to our selection of TAO."
National Center and State Collaborative
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"TAO’s Open Source nature gave us maximum integration flexibility, intellectual property ownership, and zero perpetual content licensing fee. This combination of features made it a perfect fit for our needs."
Elsevier
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"Experimenting with TAO has given us a boost of confidence that the Open Source assessment solution is a reliable alternative to those offered by traditional vendors in the market."
The New York City Department of Education
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The TAO Ecosystem

We believe the future of education is an open digital ecosystem that unites technologies and accelerates innovation. See how it all comes together through our testing platform components, services and resources.
Platform ComponentAuthoring
Create Assessments that EngageA range of built-in QTI technology enhanced items, powerful metadata capabilities, and an intuitive user interface gives you the flexibility to create any type of assessment. TAO’s Authoring module is designed to work with the full platform suite, or can also be integrated into your next generation learning environment as a standalone solution.
Platform ComponentRostering & Delivery
Candidate Management & Online Test DeliveryTAO’s Rostering and Delivery components combine to create a robust solution for test-taker management, test center assignment, and online test delivery that seamlessly pairs with the other components of the platform.
Platform ComponentReporting
Data You Can Act OnData in TAO is captured at every stage of the assessment journey to offer holistic insights into everything from test question performance to individual student, institution or district-wide achievement.
Services Suite
Assessment Services Through TAOWe’re here to work with you and offer a variety of services to compliment your assessment software, from fully managed Cloud hosting to custom training to dedicated support packages and partner services.
Knowledge Base
TAO Knowledge BaseLeverage TAO’s technical user resources, training and support materials, including the client support portals, User Guides, Training Center and Community Forum.
Open Source Resources
Resources for ContributorsHave your developers access or modify TAO’s open source code base to run the platform on your terms. Users can also support the greater good by making contributions to language localization efforts.

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