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• Administrator Guide
  • Cleanup Procedure for TAO 3.x
  • Data abstractions
    This document describes abstractions available for TAO 3.0. Please see Data abstractions 2.6 for TAO 2.6.
  • Database User Privileges
  • FAQs
  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Nginx
  • Performance optimization
  • Requirements
  • Search using Solr
  • Security and Performance
  • Server Migration
  • Site Administration Settings
• Data abstractions
  • Data abstractions 2.6
• Developer Guide
  • Build Client Side resource
  • Change code
  • Database Schema
  • Development Tools
  • Documentation for TAO core components
  • Exported Files
  • FAQ
  • Guidelines
  • How to activate a new data and interface language
  • Introduction
  • Join the testing effort
  • Licenses
  • See also
  • Translate TAO into other languages
  • Untitled Document
• Documentation for core components
  • Client/Server communication
  • Controllers
  • Delivery
  • Entry-point
  • Extensions
  • Framework Overview
  • Front tools
  • Helpers
  • How to develop a Javascript Component
  • Internationalization (i18n)
    The TAO application comes up with utilities to translate its Graphical User Interface and Models. The application can be translated into any language that can be written using Unicode (with UTF-8 encoding).
  • Items’ API
  • JavaScript Guidelines
  • Javascript libraries
  • Logger
    The purpose of this logger is to improve the code by documenting errors or irregularities that might have been missed otherwise, and by assisting developers in solving problems through offering insight into the events that led to these errors.
  • Models
  • Requests Tokenisation (CSRF-protection)
    Certain endpoints in the TAO backend are risks for Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. In order to protect those endpoints, requests should each be sent with a unique, single-use token which is generated on the backend and validated there on its receipt.
  • Rest Services Layer (>= TAO 2.5)
  • Result Storage Interface
  • Results and Events
  • Results Data Model TAO 2.5
  • Results Storage components
  • Styling
  • TAO Architecture
  • Untitled Document
  • Untitled Document
  • Untitled Document
  • Users Management Model
  • Versioned content
  • Views
• FAQ
  • Extension update guide
• Fine tuning TAO 26 settings (Alternative data stor
  • Apache Module mod_deflate configuration
• Framework-Extensions
  • Extension Manifests
• Frontend
  • AMD & Require.js
    How to deal with require.js and AMD into TAO.
  • Build
    How TAO sources get bundled together
  • Calculator component overview
    A calculator component is provided by TAO. This article explains how it works.
  • Component abstraction
    A component abstraction is part of the TAO core library. This article explains how it works.
  • Events model
    An events model mixin is part of the TAO core library. This article explains how it works.
  • Frontend file structure
    Extension based architecture and file structure
  • Libraries
    List main libraries used into TAO and the rules to evaluate new libraries.
  • Plugins model
    A plugin abstraction is part of the TAO core library. This article explains how it works.
  • Routing
  • TAO Frontend Coding guide
    This document describes the frontend coding guidelines
• Generis Overview
  • Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Guidelines
  • TaoPhpUnitTestRunner
• How TAO development works
  • How TAO development works
• How to make a new extension 3 0 v2
  • How to install an extension
• Installation and Upgrading
  • Install a TAO instance
  • Install the TAO platform from a configuration file
    This page aims to explain how you can install TAO from a predefined configuration file, in order to make your deployments easier.
  • InstallUbuntuApacheMySQLComposer
  • Setup Javascript work station
  • TAO on CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora, Amazon Linux with Apache2 & mySQL
  • TAO on Debian, Ubuntu with Apache2 & mySQL
  • TAO on Microsoft Windows with Apache2 & mySQL using WampServer
  • Update translations in TAO with a translation package from Pootle
  • Upgrade the TAO Platform
  • Upgrade the TAO platform from 3.1 to 3.2
    This page aims to explain how you can upgrade TAO from the version 3.1 to version 3.2
• Item Types
  • QTI
• LDAP Authentication
  • LDAP Authentication for TAO 2.6
• Logger
  • Logger TAO 2.2
• QTI
  • PCI Best Practice Proposal
    Portable Custom Interaction Best Practice Change Proposal: Changes and Recommendations Based on an Experimental Implementation
  • Qti Item Creator
  • TAO PCI and PIC
• Remote Debugging
  • Remote debugging with VorlonJS
    This article explains how to remotely debug and test your JavaScript using Vorlon.js. While working with a Mac and an iPad might be straightforward, achievieving the same thing with a PC is more complicated. Here is one possible approach.
• Rest Services Layer
  • RestResults
• Results And Events
  • Data Presentation
  • Event based scoring
  • Process storing Data
  • Untitled Document
• Search using Solr
  • Installation Solr MacOs
• Server Migration
  • Server Migration TAO 3.0
• TAO 3 0
  • How to make a new extension 3 0
  • Migrating Server from 2.6 to 3.0
  • TAO 3.0 structures.xml format
  • Updating Extensions from 2.6 to 3.0
• TAO 3 1
  • How to make a new extension 3 0 v2
  • How to make a new extension in TAO 3.3
• Test Runner Plugins
  • Enhance the user experience with Test Plugins
    One of the best options to improve, customize the test taker experience is using Test Runner Plugins. A plugin can be anything that hook in the test experience : like tools to help the test taker (a calculator, a ruler), some additional information (progress bar, custom title), etc.
  • Test Runner plugins
• Testrunner
  • Testmodel TAO 2.5
• Third Party Tools and Libraries
  • Enable math expression in items
    MathJAX is a library for rendering Math expressions within a web page. It supports both MathML and LaTex expressions.
  • Install PDFjs viewer
  • Installing wkHTMLtoPDF
    wkhtmltopdf is open source (LGPLv3) command line tool to render HTML into PDF using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. This run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
• Tutorials
  • Accessing the generis persistence layer
  • How to add a new field to a test taker
  • How to add the Results persistence layer to your module
  • How to deliver a test using LTI
  • How to extend the Results Persistence Layer for more functionality
  • How to implement a custom test model
  • How to manage your Extensions
  • How to reference constants from other modules in your module
  • How to setup a TAO compliant PostgreSQL database
  • How to setup TAO to generate paper based version of tests
  • Install demo items model and packages
  • Make a new extension 2.4 - 2.5
  • Massive Import of Test Takers using CSV
  • Tutorial - SVG Icons
    As of version 3.0 TAO uses custom icon fonts. With the 3.1 release there will also be support for SVG icons. They are especially interesting for extensions since they don’t require a change of the TAO icon font.
  • Untitled Document
• Users Management Model
  • LDAP Authentication
  • TAO Roles
  • User Management
  • Users Management Model for TAO versions 2.4 and later
• Wiki
  • Create your own REST Controller
  • Enable Qti test runner features
  • Install TAO on your Mac tutorial
  • Installing a new extension
• Uncategorized
  • Code Changes from 3.0 to 3.1
  • Development tips
  • Functionality access control
    This pages describes the implementation of the funcACL in TAO_2_2|TAO 2.2. Changes can be found in FuncACL 2.3.
  • How to install TAO on a Bitnami LAMP stack / Bitnami on Amazon Web Services
  • Installation solr centos
  • JavaScript unit tests
  • Make a new extension
  • PCI/PIC development
  • QTI in TAO
  • Raspberry30
  • RDF by example
  • Rest Services Layer Tutorial
  • TAO 3.0
  • TAO 3.1
  • TAO Continuous Integration
  • TAO on a Raspberry
  • TAO on Windows with Apache2 & MySQL using MAMP
  • TAO Service injector
  • Uninstall taoWorkspace
  • Usage of DatatablePayload
  • Use complex search API
  • User modules & user scripts
  • Writing HTML and CSS for new interaction types