- Knowledge Base
- All You Need to Know About Test-Takers
- How to Organize Your Test-Takers
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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)
Test-Taker Libraries
How you organize your test-takers in TAO’s test-taker libraries is up to you, of course, and preferences may vary from institution to institution. Where student data is managed over a whole group of institutions, as it is for high schools in the US, it is common practice to organize test-takers hierarchically for each state: by district, then school, and then classroom. Some independent institutions, such as universities, prefer a flat classroom structure.
The image below shows an instance of a flat classroom structure, with a Test-taker class called Middlesbrough High School Year 9 - the one which was introduced in the lesson on Additional Information for test-takers above. There are four students in the class.
Structuring your test-taker libraries according to classroom (rather than by subject or level) ensures that each student is registered only once in TAO. However, whether your test-taker library has a flat or a hierarchical structure, the chances are that there won’t be a 1-to-1 mapping between your classroom structure and your assessment structure. In other words, it is likely to be the case that not all students in one classroom (and therefore in one folder in your test-taker library) will be sitting exactly the same assessments. Even if - in lower age groups, for example - all students are taking the same subjects, there may be different assessments for different levels within the same subject.
For this reason, your test-takers need to be organized along a second axis before they can sit for assessments: a categorization that allows them to take the correct assessments.