- Help Center
- All About Extensions
- Available Optional Features
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TAO Quickstart Guide
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How to Create a Test in TAO
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Making the Most of the Asset Manager
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Working With Metadata in TAO
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Configuring Interactions: What Possibilities do You Have?
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Randomization in Items and Tests
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All You Need to Know About Test-Takers
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All About Deliveries
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Setting up LTI
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Proctoring Assessments in TAO
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How Does Scoring Work in TAO?
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Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
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Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
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Using the Advanced Search
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
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Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 1
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 2
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 3
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 4
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type: Part 5
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Optimizing Pictures
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All About Extensions
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Stylesheets in Assessment Items
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TAO for RTL Languages
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 1: TAO Architecture
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 2: Creating and Delivering Assessments
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TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
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Access Control
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History Management
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Item Layouts
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Tests with Timers
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Math Expressions
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Testing Language Skills
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Test-taker Tools: Accessibility
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Test-taker Tools: Text-to-speech
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Test-taker Tools: Calculators
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Math Entry Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Choice Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Order Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Associate Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Match Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Hot-text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Gap Match Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Slider Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Extended Text Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a File Upload Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with an Inline Choice or a Text Entry Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Media Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Graphic Associate Interaction
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Video Tutorial: Creating an Item with a Select Point Interaction
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TAO Ignite: Look and Feel
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How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
Features for use in authoring tests and test materials
1. Features for Item AuthoringThe table below contains a list of the features available which are used in item authoring (and nowhere else).
Feature |
Description |
Enabled in |
Extension(s) required |
Item Management |
Provides a management tool for managing test items, including item creation, update, deletion, import, export (incorporating all supported interaction types). |
Core Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoItems (provides item bank structure) taoQtiItem (provides editor) |
Assets Manager |
Provides a management tool for the media resources and texts (passages) used in items. |
Core Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoMediaManager |
Item PCI |
Adds some basic PCIs (portable custom interactions) which enable the use of e.g. Audio, Likert scales, Math Entry etc. |
Core Ignite Pro Enterprise |
pciSample, qitItemPCI |
PARCC PCI |
Adds several more PCIs to the authoring environment which are relevant to math assessments. |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
parcc-tei |
Workflow Stages |
Typically used in the Item review process, this extension allows items to be given a ‘state’ (e.g. draft, ready for review), which triggers the relevant stage of the review process. |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoResourceWorkflow |
Work Spaces |
Allows authors to "lock" an item so that only they can edit it. |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoWorkspace |
2. Features for Test Authoring
The table below contains a list of the features available which are used in test authoring (and nowhere else).
Feature |
Description |
Enabled in |
Extension(s) required |
Test Management |
Provides the following test management capabilities: - Select and organize items to create tests. - Create, import, and export full QTI compliant tests - Define Tests, Test Parts, Segments, and Items and control delivery options at each level |
Core Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoTests (provides test bank structure) taoQtiTest (provides editor) |
Booklets/PDF generation |
Enables the creation of test booklets for test items using most interaction types (publishable in MS-Word and PDF along with Answer Sheets) |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoBooklet taoQtiPrint taoQtiTest |
Publish test to Solar Runner |
Provides a UI and functionality to publish a test to Solar Deliver Tool |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoDeliverConnect |
Solar UI test preview |
Allows authors to preview a test in the Solar UI |
Enterprise |
taoTestPreviewUILoader |
3. Features for Item and Test Authoring
The table below contains a list of the features available which are used in both item and test authoring.
Feature |
Description |
Enabled in |
Extension(s) required |
Item & Test Preview |
Allows authors and administrators to preview items and tests (i.e. see them as the test-taker would see them). |
Core Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoQtiTestPreviewer |
QTI XML Editor |
Enables the creation of test booklets for test items using most interaction types (publishable in MS-Word and PDF along with Answer Sheets) |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoBooklet taoQtiPrint taoQtiTest |
Publish test to Solar Runner |
Provides a UI and functionality to publish a test to Solar Deliver Tool |
Enterprise |
taoDeliverConnect |
Solar UI test preview |
Allows authors to preview a test in the Solar UI |
Enterprise |
taoTestPreviewUILoader |