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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 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 create and edit users?
- How do I create and manage groups (of test takers)?
- How do I organize users and groups in the Portal?
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.
- How do I create a delivery from an existing test?
- The difference between a test and a delivery in TAO
- Creating a basic test
- How do I enable test taker tools and accessibility tools?
- How do I create a session in TAO Portal?
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.
Viewing results in TAO Portal
This course describes how to view and analyze test-taker and session results in the Portal.
How 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
- Item weighting in tests
- Item weighting in categories
- Generating scores for a test
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.
Making 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?
- How to Use Your Assets in Assessments
- Updating the Contents of the Asset Manager
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.
- Delivering tests via LTI
- What is a delivery?
- Additional ways to publish a delivery
- Setting constraints for the execution of your delivery
Setting up LTI
Discover how to set up LTI to launch exams from any Learning Management System that supports the standard.
Using 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 and where to search
- How to open the advanced 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
- Your TAO instance and the Global Manager
- Who is going to do what?
- Test authors
- Part 1: Setting up your working environment
- Item 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
- Putting tests together
- Transferring items to the main library
Optimizing Pictures
- When is a picture “too large” and why?
- Compressing pictures
- Introduction to optimizing pictures
- How large should your pictures be?
- Choosing the right format
All About Extensions
- Features included in every TAO instance
- Optional features
- What is an extension?
- The relationship between features and extensions
- Features for use in authoring tests and test materials
Stylesheets in Assessment Items
- Audience and Context
- Limitations of items stylesheets
- Styled items as templates
- Custom scopes with class names
- Using existing scopes
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.
Video 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 Media Interaction
- Creating an item with a Graphic Associate Interaction