TAO Portal Quickstart Guide
Step-by-step instructions for getting started with authoring, managing users and groups, delivering tests, and accessing results in TAO.
- How do I create users and groups?
- How do I create users and groups?
- How do I create assessment materials?
- How do I deliver assessments?
Rostering in TAO Portal
This course provides instructions on how to create (or import) and manage users and groups in the Portal.
- How do I organize users and groups in the Portal?
- How do I create and manage groups (of test takers)?
- How do I create and edit users?
Creating assessment materials in TAO
This chapter describes how to create items with interactions (questions) for tests.
- How Do I Start Developing My Own Assessment Content?
- Inserting interactions into an item
- Configuring the interactions
Creating assessments for delivery in TAO
This course provides instructions on how to create an assessment in TAO, starting from TAO Authoring and ending with creating a session in the Portal.
- Creating a basic test
- The difference between a test and a delivery in TAO
- How do I create a delivery from an existing test?
- How do I create a session in TAO Portal?
- How do I enable test taker tools and accessibility tools?
Proctoring in TAO Portal
This course provides an overview on proctoring user roles, as well as instructions on how to proctor/monitor assessments in the Portal.
See all articlesViewing results in TAO Portal
This course describes how to view and analyze test-taker and session results in the Portal.
See all articlesHow Does Scoring Work in TAO?
There are several possible ways of scoring tests that have been delivered in TAO.
- An introduction to scoring in TAO
- Scoring test questions
- Generating scores for a test
- Item weighting in categories
- Item weighting in tests
Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
This course takes a single test item as an example and leads you through the steps necessary to define your own scoring process for it.
- Overview of writing your own scoring rules
- An example scenario
- Inserting interactions into an item
- Configuring the interactions
- Previewing the item
TAO Portal Terminology
This chapter provides an updated glossary for TAO Portal users.
See all articlesMaking the Most of the Asset Manager
This course gives an overview of the Asset Manager and shows you how to import, create, and manage assets in TAO.
- Overview of the Asset Manager
- Types and Formats of Assets in TAO
- Who on Your TAO Instance Has Access to the Asset Manager?
- Updating the Contents of the Asset Manager
- How to Use Your Assets in Assessments
Working With Metadata in TAO
This course will show you how you can use metadata in TAO to organize and analyze your items and tests in different ways.
- Using Metadata to Classify Your Items in TAO
- Open-Ended Metadata
- Closed-Ended Metadata
- Using Metadata When Assembling Tests
- Using Metadata to Define Outcomes
Randomization in Items and Tests
This course explores several possibilities for randomizing questions in TAO assessments.
- Introduction to Randomization in TAO
- Randomization at the Item Level
- Randomization at Test Level
- Sample Test Download
All About Deliveries
This course provides a practical overview of how to create and execute test deliveries in TAO.
- What is a delivery?
- Additional ways to publish a delivery
- Setting constraints for the execution of your delivery
- Delivering tests via LTI
Setting up LTI
Discover how to set up LTI to launch exams from any Learning Management System that supports the standard.
See all articlesUsing the Advanced Search
The Advanced Search function increases the capability of searches in TAO to find what you need in your libraries more efficiently.
- Overview
- Advantages of the Advanced Search
- How to open the advanced search
- How and where to search
- Switching between the TAO and the Advanced Search interface
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
- Part 1: Setting up your working environment
- Your TAO instance and the Global Manager
- Who is going to do what?
- Item authors
- Test authors
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
- Part 2: Defining your workflow
- Creating new items
- Previewing items
- Transferring items to the main library
- Putting tests together
Optimizing Pictures
- Introduction to optimizing pictures
- When is a picture “too large” and why?
- Choosing the right format
- How large should your pictures be?
- Compressing pictures
All About Extensions
- What is an extension?
- The relationship between features and extensions
- Features included in every TAO instance
- Optional features
- Features for use in authoring tests and test materials
Stylesheets in Assessment Items
- Audience and Context
- Limitations of items stylesheets
- Styled items as templates
- Using existing scopes
- Custom scopes with class names
TAO for RTL Languages
- Introduction to RTL in TAO
- Configuring the Language
- Interactions available in RTL mode
- An example of a RTL item
- Specifying the interface language of a test-taker
How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
This chapter provides an in-depth overview of how scoring works in TAO.
Video demos
This section contains videos demonstrating the TAO product and many of its features.
See all articlesVideo tutorials: Creating interactions
This chapter contains step-by-step demonstrations on how to create commonly used interactions for assessments.
- Creating an item with a Choice Interaction
- Creating an item with an Associate Interaction
- Creating an item with a Gap Match Interaction
- Creating an item with a Graphic Associate Interaction
- Creating an item with a Media Interaction