K-12 Education
Create accessible formative, diagnostic and summative assessments that connect with your learning ecosystem and scale from classroom to district-wide programs.
Higher Education
Support course assessment, admissions, placement and competency testing in one flexible environment that connects with your existing ecosystem.
Professional Certification
Create secure, scalable assessment programs with sophisticated content, consistent exam delivery and integrations that support candidates across markets.
Government & Ministries
Deliver complex regional and national programs at scale across diverse testing environments while maintaining control of your content, integrations and data.
Online Assessment Software for the Full Assessment Lifecycle
TAO connects every stage of the assessment lifecycle, giving teams and organizations the tools to create, manage, deliver, score and continuously improve assessment within one connected ecosystem.
Design
Define objectives, frameworks, content requirements and measurement goals.
Author
Create accessible, standards-based items with reusable content and rich interactions.
Review
Collaborate on quality assurance, validation and approval before content reaches the test taker.
Assemble
Build assessment from reusable content and configure delivery rules that determine how they are created.
Deliver & Score
Administer assessments securely and combine automated and human scoring workflows.
Analyze & Improve
Use results to evaluate performance, strengthen content and shape the next assessment cycle.
Assessment Authoring Software Built into the TAO Ecosystem
Move from source material to assessment-ready content in a modern authoring environment built for speed, quality and control. TAO Studio brings intuitive authoring, AI-assisted workflows, accessibility, collaborative review, reusable item banks, and open standards together, helping assessment teams reduce manual work while raising the quality of what they create.
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Open Where It Matters. Powerful Where It Counts.
Open by design. Built for control. Ready for scale. TAO gives organizations the interoperability, flexibility, accessibility and ownership to build assessment infrastructure around their needs, not a vendor’s limitations.
Open Standards & Content Portability
Never lock in your content. Fully exportable items and assets with native support for IMS QTI 3.0 and LTI specifications.
Interoperability & Integrations
Connect TAO with your existing ecosystem through LTI 1.3, APIs and extensible integrations across learning platforms, identity systems and other technologies.
Flexible Deployment Model
Choose TAO Cloud, private cloud or self-managed deployment to meet your infrastructure, security, governance and data requirements.
Accessibility & Universal Design
Create inclusive assessment experiences aligned with WCAG 2.1 AA and Universal Design principles, with accessibility built across authoring and delivery.
Enterprise Security & Data Sovereignty
Protect high-stakes assessment with enterprise-grade security while maintaining greater control over your data, infrastructure and deployment environment.
Scale Without Giving Up Control
Scale from pilots to large-scale assessment while keeping ownership of your content, integrations, data and technology roadmap.
One Connected Digital Assessment Platform, Built to Scale.
See What Tao Makes Possible
Discover how TAO brings authoring, delivery, scoring, and reporting together while giving your organization the freedom to integrate, customize, and scale.
