- Knowledge Base
- All About Extensions
- Available Optional Features
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TAO Portal Quickstart Guide
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Rostering in TAO Portal
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Creating assessment materials in TAO
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Creating assessments for delivery in TAO
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Proctoring in TAO Portal
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Viewing results in TAO Portal
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How Does Scoring Work in TAO?
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Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
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TAO Portal Terminology
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TAO Quickstart Guide
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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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Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
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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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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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Test-taker and Accessibility tools
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How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
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Video demos
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Video tutorials: Creating interactions
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Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type
Features used for configuring the TAO architecture and platform
The features available to TAO administrators when configuring their TAO instance are described in this section, as well as information about which of the TAO products they are enabled in.
They are divided into two sub-categories, which contain the features (and the extensions required for them) used in:
- TAO architecture
- Platform configuration
1. Features for defining the Nature of the TAO Architecture
The table below contains just one optional feature used to define how your TAO architecture appears.
Feature |
Description |
Enabled in |
Extension(s) required |
Brand styling |
Enables a company logo to be added to the TAO interface, as well as colors and messaging. |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
tao-styles |
2. Features for general Platform Configuration
The table below contains a list of the features available which you can use to configure your TAO platform.
Feature |
Description |
Enabled in |
Extension(s) required |
Event Logging |
Enables a company logo to be added to the TAO environment, as well as colors and messaging. |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoEventLog |
Task Queue |
Allows the delegation of significant operations to a task queue, asynchronously (e.g., test publication) |
Ignite Pro Enterprise |
taoTaskQueue |
Task Scheduler |
Allows for the scheduling of tasks to be performed at specific or recurring times. |
Enterprise |
taoScheduler |
System Status |
Checks the installation of TAO and reports any issues of missed or misconfigured extensions |
Enterprise |
taoSystemStatus |
Advanced Search |
Advanced search function requiring a license for ‘Elastic Search’. Content needs to be indexed before it can be used. |
Enterprise |
taoAdvancedSearch |