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With an easy to use interface and over 20 built-in question types, TAO empowers users to create, customize and manage testing content — for any type of assessment.
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Modern eLearning Authoring Tools for Easy Test Creation

Give assessment professionals and educators the tools they need to build an online exam experience that improves productivity, amplifies student engagement, and accelerates institutional progress.
Build Feature-Rich Online ExamsCreate or import innovative questions, embed multi-media, and more via TAO’s WYSIWYG editor using simple drag and drop commands.See How it Works
Guarantee Content FreedomTAO is purpose-built on open source and open standards to guarantee the freedom to monetize your work and maintain the value of even your legacy assets.Learn More
Empower Your Team's ProductivitySmart workflows, rich metadata tagging, and the ability to create shared item banks helps save time on test development, cut costs, and improve productivityLearn More
Assess Creativity and CollaborationLeverage built-in tech-enhanced items, from simple multiple choice to advanced PCIs, to build authentic exams that foster skills like collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.Get Started

Explore the Benefits of Test Authoring in TAO

TAO’s robust open source test authoring tools put you in control of your exam content and enable a best-in-class assessment experience.
QTI- Standard Certified
Simple, Yet Sophisticated
Innovative Testing Formats
Preview Tests Responsively
Enable Accommodation Tools
Smart Content Management
Track Versioning & History
Collaborate Authentically
Computer Adaptive Testing

Uphold a Global Standard

Seamlessly import and export any QTI-content directly into TAO and hit the ground running with your assessment programs, or use the exam builder to develop standards-based questions directly within the authoring environment. Because QTI is at the heart of TAO’s Authoring module, any content you create is natively stored in an interoperable format.

Do you have existing content formats that you need to adapt to QTI? Our team of experts can help with transforming your assets, and migrate any existing content from your legacy systems to your new TAO Authoring environment.
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Reduce the Complexities of Online Test Creation

TAO’s sophisticated, yet easy-to-use WYSIWYG item and test editor make it easy to create a rich assessment experience with just a few clicks, saving significant test development time.
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Innovative & Authentic Digital Testing Formats

Enable an authentic and personalized assessment experience with a range of interactive testing formats, from linear, to branching, to adaptive. Our test development software also supports item scaffolding to better connect assessment to learning.

Preview Tests Responsively

With TAO’s item and test previewer, authors can view assessments in real-time across a wide range of browsers and devices to see how they will appear to test-takers before setting a campaign live.

Enable Test-Taker Accommodation Tools

Authors can enable test-taker accommodation tools like Text-to-Speech, answer masking, highlighters, magnification, and more.

Smart Content Management

Smart workflows in TAO can simplify everything from item and user management to content access to question scoring rules. At the same time, advanced metadata tagging lets you streamline the authoring environment and organize content for easy access. TAO even makes it quick and easy to link questions and testing content to key learning outcomes, including common core standards, helping you ensure milestones are being met.

Track Test Versioning & History

In a collaborative environment, things need to stay organized. TAO’s version control and history management tools ensure you’ll always stay on top of the latest item and test iterations by helping you track your content as it evolves.

Create Shared Item Banks & Stimuli

Democratize assessment content across your organization, from multiple choice to rich performance-based interactions and more. Our platform lets you create reusable item banks and stimuli that can be shared with your peers to help save on test development time, cut costs, and improve productivity.

Deliver a Personalized Testing Experience

TAO comes with a general-purpose CAT application programming interface (API) that enables you to plug-in your own proprietary or Open Source CAT engine. So, you have full flexibility and control over which adaptive test algorithms you want to use.

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