What is Tassomai?
Tassomai is an adaptive learning program helping secondary schools impact on attainment levels in a range of subjects at Key Stages 3 and 4.
Originally designed to support GCSE science, Tassomai has expanded to cover maths, English language and science at KS3/4 and English literature, geography, history and computer science at KS4 only.
Tassomai’s multiple choice micro-quizzes reinforce knowledge through targeted repetition, like a flashcard. The quizzes are supported by short explainer videos and curated links to relevant external resources. An in-built, AI-powered tutor is also available to help answer questions from students. At the same time the algorithm is learning each student’s strengths and weaknesses; it uses this information to target the gaps in a student’s knowledge and provide feedback to teachers on which areas individuals and entire classes need help with. Tassomai saves teachers time in two ways; it teaches AO1s, while also reducing the time they need to spend analysing their students, meaning they can focus on teaching and targeting intervention.
As well as being used in schools, Tassomai is also available for private subscribing families supporting learners from year 3 to year 11 in the subjects mentioned above, plus French and Latin.
Recommended Usage
Our product presents students with a target: a “Daily Goal” of multiple choice questions for them to try and answer, on average the goal is about 40 questions per day.
The teacher dashboard presents students’ usage over the past 7 days, and classifies engagement under three headings: Engaged (students who’ve completed their Daily Goal 4+ times over the last 7 days), Struggling (students who’ve completed their DG 2-3 times) or Lapsed (students who’ve completed less than 2 DG). However, not all schools use the DG system as a means of measuring engagement.
Educational Impact
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Tassomai Reviews
from 49 Verified Reviews
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Mar 2024
Fantastic software
Rezaul found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Ease of monitoring”
- Significantly provides school data“Communication with parents”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“shows gaps”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Feb 2024
I think it has given significant improvement to work load and to closing gaps in student knowledge
Hetty Ollivant found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Not having to set or mark work weekly”
- Moderately provides school data“No”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“No”
- Significantly improves attainment“Student have targeted support”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Feb 2024
It's a great revision tool
Sarah-Jane Ryan found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Set as homework so no marking.”
- Moderately provides school data“Homework grades”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Not a teacher”
- Moderately improves attainment“We have had students who have significantly improved grades when completing the whole course”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It really helps with embedding specialist vocab and concepts”
Feb 2024
Has been very useful and great easy access for students (can do on phone on bus to school etc). To improve it would be good to have breakdowns of what students are commonly getting wrong in our school compared to similar centres. We got sent this as a separate spreadsheet but a built in part of the software to do this and export to csv would be amazing.
Mr O Snell found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Self marking homework”
- Moderately provides school data“Use commonly misunderstood questions as starters in lessons”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Quick quiz at the end of lessons”
- Moderately improves attainment“Correlation between Tassomai usage and residual grades”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students will say "oh yeah I was doing that on Tassomai" when covering concepts in lesson”
Feb 2024
Still waiting for evidence of impact and challenge in English but the system itself seems accessible.
Alison Scott found Tassomai:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Analysing the data provided and on a school level issuing achievement and behaviour points/detentions for completion/non-completion”
- Moderately provides school data“Being able to target intervention in class”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Targeting content at specific students based on question level data”
- Slightly improves attainment“Still waiting for evidence as we are early in our Tassomai journey”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Still early in our journey”
Feb 2024
Students really like it compared to other resources, the data you can gain from it is really useful for positive praise, and teacher workload is reduced
Neil found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Don't need to set or mark homework”
- Significantly provides school data“Homework engagement data”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“I haven't used it long enough to comment on this yet”
- Moderately improves attainment“Helps students learn more and remember more”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Provides students with the basics to build upon”
Paula Suttle
Head of English
Used Tassomai weekly for 1-2 years
Jan 2024
It's excellent for pupils and teachers both
Paula Suttle found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No homework to mark”
- Significantly provides school data“accuracy of memory and knowledge of texts”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“reteaching misconceptions”
- Significantly improves attainment“Progress 8 improvement in English”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“more confidence, better understanding, better memory recall”
Jan 2024
It is a superb learning platform for both students and teachers. I would not want to operate without it in teaching the science curriculum. It is a firm component in our raft of curriculum delivery strategies.
Ray Hague found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Setting weekly HW for Y7-11. Easy to check if students have completed their fDG weekly and apply rewards/sanctions.”
- Moderately provides school data“Use of Tassomai reports during parents evenings Y7-11 as well as informing data captures for reporting.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Individual monitoring of progress via BCP trees and identifying common areas of weakness via the same.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Students who routinely use Tassomai improve retention of basic facts supporting AO1”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Many students attribute their developing knowledge and improvement to their use of Tassomai”
Tahmina Akhtar
Maths teacher
Used Tassomai monthly for 4-6 months
Sep 2022
Student and teacher really enjoy using tassomia and helps teachers work load
Tahmina Akhtar found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Student can practice their skill while teacher mark their books or homework.”
- Slightly provides school data“You can see how much students have improved and where there are at in their score for a particular topic”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“They are practising the skills they have learned which help them to remember the basic skill need to teacher harder topics”
- Significantly improves attainment“students enjoy using tassomai and increase their love for maths”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“if they have got a questions wrong they are able to get it right the next time round and learn from their mistakes”
Gavin Terry
Head of Science
Used Tassomai weekly for 7–12 months
Aug 2022
I have already recommended it to Maths and English as well as the trial for Business and Computer Science. It definitely suits certain subjects more than others.
Gavin Terry found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Using it as homework assignments reduces time spent marking work and allows teachers to focus their attention on where there are gaps in a students understanding”
- Significantly provides school data“We have been able to get an idea of how much time students are committing to the subject independently. We can see how many questions are being answered, the accuracy of those answers, and which topics within a Science subject students are answering easily or having difficulty with.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Establishing routines with Tassomai has helped. Whether it is being used as a starter, plenary, or for homework, it allows a quick assessment of every individual in the class and provides an independent resource for students to use.”
- Slightly improves attainment“It is perhaps a little early for us to see this yet - we may know more once the IGCSE results come out. In shorter term end of unit tests I haven't seen a noticeable increase in attainment. Having said that, students do appreciate the additional revision resource. It should help with our CIE IGCSE Paper 1/2 as these are multiple choice.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Tassomai is great at testing student knowledge and identifying areas of weakness to both the teacher and the student. Given it creates a unique learning experience for each student it helps them to focus on areas they need to. There is often a tendency for some students to simply repeatedly guess. If it had a feature where there is a simple explanation of why an answer is correct or incorrect it would have a bigger impact.”
Robert Aslett
Teacher
Used Tassomai daily for 3-4 years
Jul 2022
It’s a great program that provides lots of data and improves students knowledge with great algorithms
Robert Aslett found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“No homework marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Gap analysis”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Recall”
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Recall”
Celina Lowe
Director of learning
Used Tassomai daily for 5 years+
Jul 2022
It has made tracking of homework easy and looking at areas of weakness way. Getting students to track their own tree to to ensure they re cover areas of weakness
Celina Lowe found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework that can easily be tracked but no need for marking”
- Significantly provides school data“Using the coloured dots to see which topics need extra support”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Being able to see which topics are weakest”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students that use it for at least 4 daily goals per week have better understanding of topics”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Once a daily goal is achieved students can choose areas to improve upon”
Toby Boram
Assistant Headteacher
Used Tassomai weekly for 3-4 years
Jul 2022
Toby Boram found Tassomai:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge
Harry Hamilton
Head of Student Wellbeing
Used Tassomai daily for 3-4 years
Mar 2022
It is brilliant however its style of learning is not good for all; Such as those with special needs.
Harry Hamilton found Tassomai:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“It allows students to learn lesson basics earlier meaning you can fit more learning overall into one lesson.”
- Moderately provides school data“Allows school to know what level of work is needed for them.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Allows a calmer want, on learning a certain topic as they know it partly already.”
- Significantly improves attainment“A student who was deemed failing to pass last year ,started trying in Tassomai and managed to get a grade 8.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Look back to my point on attainment.”
Oct 2021
10 is a high score, I know. And this software deserves it. It is more than a learning tool. It reduces teacher workload, and individualises learning in an efficient way. The best part is that this software is not just a buy and use. It is given soul by the dedicated staff that are always enthusiastic and available to help. There are so many online videos and a blog that shows that Tassomai will continue to evolve.
Chris found Tassomai:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Teachers are able to check up on individual students in minutes. There is no time spent on setting homework at all!”
- Significantly provides school data“Tassomai offers metrics on the most important academic data, like who is putting in effort, what their accuracy is, and how much progress they are making.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I've been using Tassomai data to drive my feedback, starters and plenaries. It removes the need for paperwork and time spent checking answers... Time is now spent guiding learners”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students knew the answers to the synoptic section in their test, which usually trips them up.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students knew answers to questions ahead of the actual lesson (plum-pudding model).”
Jul 2020
Easy to use and gain is clear. Nothing to lose.
Alex Irvine found Tassomai:
- Moderately improves attainment“Grades improved, especially for low attainers”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Improvement in answers to AO1 questions”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Not sure if any more efficient”
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Tassomai is additional to homework so not significant”
- Significantly provides school data“Evidence of engagement and understanding improved”
May 2020
tassomai is a great way for students to engage in learning at home. It allows stretch and challenge for them
Sobia Rafiq found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“student do better on end of topic tests”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“engaged in lessons due to use of tassomi”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“yes students are more engaged in lessons due to time spent on tassomai”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“setting tassomai as homework and monitoring progress on there”
- Slightly provides school data“topic tests have improved”
May 2020
There are many positive elements to Tassomai which have made supporting our students and staff within schools far more effective. The students are provided with up to date feedback and can address areas of misconception or gaps in knolwedge. For staff, assessment of students is fedback quickly and the information can be used to provide effective and timely interventions to address potential areas of concern.
Nicky Crum found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“By regular exposure to science content, students become more familiar with key concepts and application of knolwedge. This imporves confidence and so students begin to build up examination resiliance”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Regular exposure to content that students find more difficult allows them to build thier knowledge and understanding up quickly. The personalised feedback from Tassomai allows teachers to work on bespoke interventions with their students and as a class if there are obvious gaps in knowledge.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Tassomai makes assessing student understanding incredibly simple and does the hard work for staff. Bespoke feedback on individuals as well as whole class and cohort ensures that interventions can be in place quickly to address misconceptions or gaps in knowledge.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Tassomai can be set as homework or as additional support work for students. As the program is constantly assessing the users, the marking element is removed for teachers allowing them to spend thier time creating enrichment and intervention materials.”
- Significantly provides school data“The data that Tassomai produces is realtime data and is used across our schools to support with accurate assessment of our students.The program also provides bespoke feedback to parents to allow for regular dialogue between school and home”
Apr 2020
It really works, a great piece of kit that students find really use friendly and supportive
Amy Borrick found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Obvious improvement in basic recall particularly for foundation”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“see previous answer!”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“We allocate Tassomai work as independent work, so doesn't really impact what I deliver in the classroom”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“As this is additional to students work, doesn't really affect my workload”
- Moderately provides school data“really helpful in identifying weaknesses for a whole class, to help target intervention”
Apr 2020
Minimum input from a teacher point of view, enables students to learn the facts.
Judith Bailey found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Massive improvement of factual knowledge.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“A student last year started using Tassamai daily after Feb mocks and went up 2 grades in the GCSE exam.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Significant factual knowledge already there!”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Students using tassamai as revision”
- Moderately provides school data“Where used on a daily basis the students grades invariably go up”
Apr 2020
Tassomai has completely revolutionised our revision strategy, helping us to gain above national average results across all sciences for 3 years in a row!
Abbie Telford found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Borderline grade 4 students gaining a pass at GCSE due to use of Tassomai”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students often answer questions before we have even done the topic and always say "that was on Tassomai"”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“We can set/open the topics early and encourage pupils to use it for factual recall so we don't waste lesson time on it”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Can be set as homework, can save on marking and tracking of pupils engagement with revision”
- Significantly provides school data“We can use it to help support any significant changes in our data entry or use it as evidence for ambition score entries”
Apr 2020
The most important thing for me is that students value the use of Tassomai and really buy onto the benefits.
Mr Brown found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Many students who have engaged with the platform, over the past few years, have often been awarded great results.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“I always have all students in my classes enrolled on the program and they are expected to use it as part of our curriculum. Those who engage always go onto achieve well.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I do often look to see which topics need to be revisited, which helps to inform revision sessions.”
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload
- Does not significantly provide school data
Apr 2020
It supports staff and students in a whole variety of different ways; 1. students begin revising earlier than they usually would 2. staff can very easily monitor how much it is used and use this to praise (or contact parents) 3. it develops good working routines of revising little and often
David found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Especially good at raising attainment of middle ability grades 4/5 up to 5/6”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Especially good at improving recall of key facts”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
- Moderately provides school data“Used at parents evenings etc...to show how much it has/hasn't been used by students. Used as a way to reward dedication and hard work by students”
Apr 2020
Jo Barnes found Tassomai:
- Moderately improves attainment“students know key basic recall facts and this helps in lessons and revision”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Recall, they are able to apply information with more confidence as they understand the questions and have accessed the basics”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“more time is spent on being able to apply knowledge than simple factual recall”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“homework tasks”
- Slightly provides school data
Apr 2020
track student engagement, parental involvement, user friendly
Darren Blyth found Tassomai:
- Moderately improves attainment“students attaining above target grade linked to daily usage”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“scientific language and confidence in handling it”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“good to track student progress and have conversations around this”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“easier to track improvement”
- Significantly provides school data“improved grades linked to usage”