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Your TAO Starter Plan Includes
A modern, cloud-native authoring workspace optimized for collaboration. Write, preview, and validate QTI-compliant items on the web in real time. Combine multiple visual modules with custom logic seamlessly.
- 1 author seat
- Intelligent item bank
- 3,000 monthly AI credits
- 50 monthly test delivery attempts
- Core QTI authoring tools
- QTI import / export
- AI-assisted item generation
- ItemVerity item quality verification tool
- Downstream exam delivery, scoring, and reporting
Start Free, Scale When You're Ready.
Need more? Purchase additional AI credits or delivery attempts as needed, or upgrade to a paid TAO plan to unlock shared item banks, additional author seats, higher usage limits, expanded support and custom API integrations.
Additional Author Seats
Collaborate with your team on item authoring and test creation.
Increased Delivery Attempts
Scale up from 50 monthly delivery attempts to higher volumes attempts as your needs grow.
Advanced Features
Unlock shared item banks, custom branding, API access, premium support and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
TAO Starter is suitable for small-scale classroom assessment, or for evaluating and piloting TAO’s platform capabilities, but it is not designed to run a team-based assessment program at scale.
It offers a zero-cost workspace for a solo author or evaluator to explore core authoring tools from TAO Studio, convert existing source files (PDF, Word, CSV), experiment with AI item drafting, and support small delivery volumes without financial commitment.
TAO Ignite, Elevate, and Enterprise offer greater scalability, limits, and support for large-scale assessment programs.
TAO Starter provides access to a dedicated support portal with your subscription. These details are provided via email when you complete the free sign up.
TAO Starter provides an individual authoring workspace equipped with core creation, editing, and publishing tools at no cost:
- Source-Document Conversion: Automatically convert existing PDF, Word (.docx), XLSX, CSV, and legacy QTI files into digital questions or full tests.
- Grounded AI Drafting: Generate fresh draft questions or complete test forms directly from study guides, textbooks, and curriculum outlines.
- QTI Authoring & Editing: Build items from scratch or refine stems, distractors, answer keys, and scoring rules using embedded QTI 2.2/3.0 editing tools.
- AI Quality & Fairness Review: Evaluate draft items against standard quality criteria, cognitive demand, reading load, and fairness/bias flags.
- Central Library & Semantic Search: Tag and organize content in a central library, discovering questions by meaning, keywords, or metadata categori
- Test Assembly & Delivery: Build sectioned tests with fixed or randomized question pools, preview the candidate experience, export open QTI packages, or publish directly to TAO Portal.
- Included Monthly Allowances: Features 1 single-user author seat, 3,000 monthly AI credits, and 50 learner test attempts per month
Yes. TAO supports the assessment lifecycle from end to end, bringing assessment authoring, content management, secure delivery, scoring, grading, and reporting together in one connected platform. You can start with the foundation your program needs today and expand as your requirements grow, without having to piece together separate assessment tools