1. TAO
When Open-Source E-Testing
Goes Mainstream

2. TAO is a Computer-Based Assessment
Open-Source Platform
- General-purpose web-based platform
- 100% open-source for 100% control
- QTI compliant for content interoperability
- Fully customizable to meet your needs
- Community development
- No annual license fees

3. TAO
Item development and management
Test development and management
Test takers management
Group management
Test delivery management
Results management

4. TAO
QTI items with style using CSS
TAO Default Style Sheet Specific Stylesheet

5. TAO
Sometimes, you need to escape from templates
• Standard Web technology based (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Create Items that exactly suit your needs

6. TAO
Difficulty Items
Max Score
Science Math
Author
Creation date
Largest Object Mammals
Largest Object Mammals
• Difficulty: easy •Difficulty: easy
• Difficulty: easy •Difficulty: easy
• Max Score: 1 • Max Score: 1
• Max Score: 1 • Max Score: 1
• Author: Thibaud Latour • Author: Younes Djaghloul
• Author: Thibaud Latour • Author: Younes Djaghloul
• Creation date: 23/02/12 • Creation date: 14/01/12
• Creation date: 23/02/12 • Creation date: 14/01/12

7. TAO
Portray your Test Takers
Lance Jansky Younes Djaghloul
• Age: 17
• Curriculum: Science
• Nationality: German
• Town: Berlin
? • Age: 32
• Unit: KISS
• Title: R&D Engineer
• Expertness: Results

8. TAO
Groups
G1 G2 G3
Tests
T1
Delivery Campaign
+ time
T2
+ number of executions
Test Taker

9. TAO
Deliveries Results
Transform,
adapt, filter
CSV MS Excel

10. TAO
Internet Local Area Network
Server
Data
Test MySQ
L
takers
Administrators,
test designers, …
Administrators,
test designers,
…

11. TAO
GNU GPLv2
TAO is a free software
Available for download, free of any charges
Available on http://www.tao.lu

12. TAO
Come and join us !
http://forge.tao.lu
/
- GUI Translation
- Wiki
- Testing
- New code
- Extension

13. TAO
Partners and customers

14. Next TAO Days
Sept. 10 & 11, 2012 in Berlin
Stay tuned & register on
www.tao.lu
contact@tao.lu