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TAO Portal Terminology

TAO Portal Quickstart Guide
Rostering in TAO Portal
Creating assessment materials in TAO
- Creating a test item with interactions
- Configuring interactions
Creating assessments for delivery in TAO
Proctoring in TAO Portal
Viewing results in TAO Portal
How Does Scoring Work in TAO?
Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
TAO Portal Terminology
TAO Quickstart Guide
Making the Most of the Asset Manager
Working With Metadata in TAO
Configuring Interactions: What Possibilities do You Have?
- Configuring Interactions
Randomization in Items and Tests
All You Need to Know About Test-Takers
All About Deliveries
Setting up LTI
- Configure TAO to deliver exams via LTI
Proctoring Assessments in TAO
Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
- Interpreting Results
Using the Advanced Search
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
Optimizing Pictures
All About Extensions
Stylesheets in Assessment Items
TAO for RTL Languages
TAO Terminology Explained Part 1: TAO Architecture
TAO Terminology Explained Part 2: Creating and Delivering Assessments
TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
Test-taker and Accessibility tools
- Test-taker Tools
How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
Video demos
Video tutorials: Creating interactions
Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type

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TAO Portal Terminology

TAO Portal Quickstart Guide
- Getting set up
- Rostering
- Authoring assessment content
- Delivering assessments
- Viewing results
Rostering in TAO Portal
- Getting set up with Organization
- Creating users and groups
- Organizing users and groups
- Importing users, groups, and organizational units
Creating assessment materials in TAO
- Creating a test item with interactions
- Configuring interactions
Creating assessments for delivery in TAO
- Creating tests in TAO Authoring
- Creating deliveries in TAO Authoring
- Creating sessions for deliveries in TAO Portal
- Accessibility
Proctoring in TAO Portal
Viewing results in TAO Portal
How Does Scoring Work in TAO?
- Introduction
- Item Weighting
- Summary and Configuration of Scoring Methods
- Scoring assessments
Writing Your Own Scoring Rules for Your Assessments: An Example
- Introduction
- Creating and Applying the Variables for Each Interaction
- Linking Each Interaction to its Own Variable and Setting the Values
- Summary
TAO Portal Terminology
TAO Quickstart Guide
- Getting Things Set Up
- Authoring Assessment Content
- Delivering Tests
- Getting Results
Making the Most of the Asset Manager
- Introduction
- Managing Your Assets
- Using Your Assets
Working With Metadata in TAO
- Introduction
- How to configure Metadata
- Types of Metadata
- Using Metadata When Assembling Tests
- Exporting Metadata
Configuring Interactions: What Possibilities do You Have?
- Configuring Interactions
Randomization in Items and Tests
All You Need to Know About Test-Takers
- Introduction
- Registering Test-Takers
- What Information do You Need in a Test-Taker’s Profile?
- How to Organize Your Test-Takers
All About Deliveries
- Introduction to Test Delivery in TAO
- Generating Deliveries from Tests
- Delivering Your Test (Delivery) to Test-Takers
- Methods of Executing a Delivery (Delivering a Test)
- Conclusion
Setting up LTI
- Configure TAO to deliver exams via LTI
Proctoring Assessments in TAO
- Introduction
- On-site Proctoring
- Remote Proctoring
- Comparing On-site and Remote Proctoring
Interpreting Results Tables in TAO
- Interpreting Results
Using the Advanced Search
- Introduction
- Advanced Search Interface
- Advanced search interface and the TAO environment
- Course summary
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 1: Set-up
- Introduction
- Setting up Users with Relevant Roles
- Organizing Your Workspace
- Summary of Part 1
Best Practices for Working with Multiple Users in a Small-scale Authoring Scenario Part 2: Workflow
- Introduction
- Item Creation
- Test Creation
- Making Backups of Your Work
- Conclusion
Optimizing Pictures
- Introduction
- Pictures in TAO
- Conclusion
All About Extensions
- Introducing and Defining Extensions
- Types of Features and their Corresponding Extensions
- Available Optional Features
- Summary and Conclusion
Stylesheets in Assessment Items
- Introduction to Stylesheets in Assessment Items
- Code Examples
- Downloads
TAO for RTL Languages
- Introduction
- Creating Test Materials for RTL languages
- Taking Tests in RTL Languages
- Course Summary
TAO Terminology Explained Part 1: TAO Architecture
- Introduction
- Terms Relating to the TAO Architecture
- Summary and Conclusion
TAO Terminology Explained Part 2: Creating and Delivering Assessments
- Introduction
- Terms Relating to Creating Assessments
- Terms Relating to Delivering Assessments
- Summary and Conclusion
TAO Terminology Explained Part 3: Scoring Assessments
- Introduction
- Terms Relating to Scoring Assessments
- The Processing Part of Scoring Assessments
- Summary and Conclusion
Test-taker and Accessibility tools
- Test-taker Tools
How does scoring work in TAO? (II)
- An introduction to scoring in TAO
- Scoring test questions
- Generating scores for a test
- Summary and configuration of scoring methods
Video demos
Video tutorials: Creating interactions
Thinking About Test Questions (and Choosing Interactions) According to Task Type
- Part 1: Relating test questions to task types
- Part 2: Looking at the Task Type IDENTIFY
- Part 3: Looking at the Task Type CONNECT
- Part 4: Looking at the Task Type COMPLETE
- Part 5: Thinking about the Task Type PRODUCE

TAO Portal Terminology

This chapter provides an updated glossary for TAO Portal users.

TAO Portal glossary

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