Open Assessment Technologies offers TAO, a modular and customizable digital assessment platform that enables educational institutions to create, manage, and deliver secure online assessments while maintaining control over their testing resources. By eliminating reliance on proprietary systems, TAO reduces licensing costs and enhances interoperability, facilitating over 100 million tests in more than 30 languages globally.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Creating, managing, and delivering secure online assessments can be costly and complex for educational institutions, especially when relying on proprietary systems with expensive licensing fees. These systems often lack the flexibility to adapt to specific institutional needs and may not integrate well with existing educational technology infrastructure.
Solution
TAO is a modular and customizable digital assessment platform designed to empower educational institutions to create, manage, and deliver secure online assessments while maintaining control over their testing resources. By leveraging open education standards, TAO reduces reliance on proprietary systems, lowering licensing costs and enhancing interoperability. The platform offers a suite of components and add-ons for authoring feature-rich assessments, managing exam candidates, delivering innovative digital assessments, and connecting assessment data to learning insights through reporting tools. TAO provides flexibility, allowing institutions to start with an out-of-the-box solution, customize the platform to their specific needs, or enhance the assessment software with their own functionality.
Target Audience
TAO is designed for educational institutions, K-12 schools, higher education, and organizations that require a flexible and cost-effective solution for creating, managing, and delivering online assessments.
Features
- Modular platform components for authoring, rostering, delivery, and reporting
- Compliant with WCAG standards and includes assistive tools for audio, visual, and keyboard support
- Test authoring tools with 21st-century item banking and smart workflows
- Scalable solutions hosted on cloud providers like GCP and AWS
- Technology-assisted human scoring through TAO Grader
- RESTful APIs to access dynamic data from the datastore
- Integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Proctoring tools with administrative controls and security features