Open Assessment Technologies Launches TAO Community Edition to Support Open Learning Standards for EdTech Integration

Open Assessment Technologies (OAT) has announced the upcoming fall release of the TAO Community Edition (TAO CE) featuring new open source components, marking a transformative step toward open, extensible, and community-driven innovation in digital assessment.

The TAO CE includes an expanded suite of modular products—TAO Advance, TAO Grader, TAO Insights, and TAO Portal—providing a powerful, end-to-end integrated stack that enables institutions and developers to own, customize, and manage their assessment infrastructure fully.

This release is part of the TAO Community initiative—a bold movement to unite developers, assessment professionals, and organizations in co-creating the future of learning and evaluation. Through this ecosystem, users will gain direct access to collaborative tools, community-driven feature requests, roadmap discussions, and upcoming contribution opportunities.

“The future of digital assessment isn’t locked in proprietary systems—it’s open, extensible, and community-built,” said Mack K. Machida, Co-CEO, Open Assessment Technologies. “With the TAO Community Edition and our upcoming new developer forum, we’re empowering the global community to own their infrastructure, scale their solutions, and shape the next generation of learning from the inside out.”

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