What is Tassomai?
Tassomai is an adaptive learning program helping schools impact on attainment levels in core subjects at Key Stages 3 and 4.
Originally designed to support GCSE science, Tassomai has expanded to cover KS3 and KS4 English (literature and language), maths and science.
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. 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.
A detailed report into Tassomai's impact is available to download below.
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
Additional evidence
 Company | HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2012 |
| Age Range | 11-13, 14-16 |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Tassomai is accessed through a web browser or via our mobile app and it doesn't use a lot of mobile data. |
 Set Up | First, schools are sent a setup form, in which we take the information required to build orders to our system. During setup, we recommend schools book in a training demo, with at least two members of staff present. Once setup is complete, all staff receive a launch email, containing their school’s unique activation code. This code is then used by their students on our website to create their accounts. Students select their class from a dropdown which is created from the information provided on the setup form. Both staff and students require access to an internet-enabled computer or laptop in order to login to Tassomai. Tassomai is supported by all major internet browsers. Additionally, students with a smartphone will be able to download our mobile app for free and access Tassomai anywhere with an internet signal. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineDocumentationVideos We strongly encourage schools (particularly new schools) to book a 30 minute training demo. Conducted via screen-share software, unless specifically requested to be in-person, departments will go through how Tassomai works from both a staff and student perspective, with time left at the end for general Q&A. These can be filmed and shared with the school afterwards as a reference point, or for teachers who were unable to make the original demo. We also have lots of helpful content for teachers and students on our blog. |
 Support | EmailKnowledge BasePhone Support Teachers can find relevant information on our Teacher Hub at www.tassomai.com/teacher-hub |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. If you are a parent whose child has Tassomai through their school you will be able to log in to view their progress and you will receive weekly progress reports by email. If you do not receive parent reports, you can ask your child's school to contact the Tassomai admin team to get this up and running. If you are a private subscribing parent you will have access to your own account to manage it. |
Tassomai PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Tassomai pricing starts from £5.00 / per-pupil School packages: For each cohort that Tassomai is bought for, the cost per student becomes cheaper. Buying for 1 cohort costs £15 per student, but if you buy for 5 cohorts (i.e. years 7-11), the most you will pay is £5 per student. When you buy for a cohort, all of the content for that age group is included in the price - there are no add-ons or hidden costs. Private subscribers: Payment is by a monthly rolling subscription which gives access to all relevant subjects, these vary depending on the child's age. Private subscriptions start from £8.99 per month for younger learners. See the Tassomai website for more information and to start a free 7-day trial. | |
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Tassomai Reviews
from 41 Verified Reviews
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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.”
Chris
Physics Teacher
Used Tassomai daily for 4-6 months
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”
Nicky Crum
Subject Improvement Lead - Science
Used Tassomai for 12 months
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”
Judith Bailey
Teacher of science/chemistry/ Head of Year
Used Tassomai for 5 years
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”
Apr 2020
It is excellent for independent work and factual recall and useful for HW
Jane found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“improved recall”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“use of keywords and their recall”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“they are mainly a HW or independently, so they benefit my teaching but i rarely plan from it”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“it is a revision tool and it aids pupils more than me.”
- Does not significantly provide school data
Helen
Head of Science/Lead Practitioner
Used Tassomai for 2 years
Apr 2020
It is very very good but expensive
Helen found Tassomai:
- Moderately improves attainment“Increased grade 9s in our engaged students”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“As previsouly”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency and productivity“Feedback to students and teachers during lockdown”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“As previously”
- Slightly provides school data
Apr 2020
Great support great reports ease of use very powerful tool Murray abs his team are fab
Louise Daniels found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Students in classes who have achieved over predicted outcomes attributing being able to answer questions in assessments because they’ve seen them on Tassomai”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Retrieval tests”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Recognising interweaving topics can be very powerful”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Home learning mechanism easy to set and monitor equally easy to see good and poor performance across topics in order to pitch planning and interventions in the classroom right”
- Moderately provides school data“Attendance and usage of Tassomai vs outcomes to be looked at”
Apr 2020
Tassomai is easy to use, student-centred, tailored to individual students' needs, has excellent content coverage and reduces teacher workload.
Louisa Miller found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Tassomai has helped improve attainment with our current Y11 cohort between their November and February mock exams. This increase was most significant with our Physics cohort.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Regular, low-stakes testing with Tassomai has found to improve our students' ability to access and answer AO1 style exam questions.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Tassomai is used as a starter in every KS4 science lesson as part of our Tasso Ten strategy. This feature helps review the learning at the start of every lesson and ensures that staff can pinpoint where teaching needs to be targeted.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Tassomai helps to reduce the home learning workload on teachers.”
- Moderately provides school data“We have used the data collected from Tassomai to successfully show a positive correlation between value added (progress 8) against Tassomai progress (perecentage of course complete)”
Apr 2020
Impactful - it really does help students to remember more facts. Great team of people supporting it - efficient, helpful and genuinely in edtech for the right reason. Innovative - the platform is always finding ways to help schools and students to improve their learning of key facts.
Reece Broome found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Positive correlation between % of Tassomai completed and science index score. Also a positive correlation between % of Tassomai completed and GCSE grade.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Ample anecdotal evidence of students knowing key facts as a result of the retrieval practice they are benefiting from through using Tassomai... 'I remember this was on Tassomai' is a common phrase in Torquay Academy science classrooms.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Through regular usage of Tassomai, students remember more facts. This means lessons will run smoother and at a faster pace, as less time is spent recapping and more time is spent teaching/learning.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Tassomai is our principal science homework for key stage 4. All teachers have to do is track their classes performance, which we now do through the use of a display in the science corridor and a class vs class competition.”
- Significantly provides school data“Tassomai's data is a key component in a multitude of data points we capture for each student. We use a student's Tassomai completion data as a measure of raw effort. The basic premise is that if a student is motivated enough to spend circa 20 mins every other day answering MCQs throughout year 11, then they will be bothered enough to do the extra revision we put in place in the run up to their exams. This gives us a proxy to use when trying to predict a student's final grade. As a subject our prediction were the most accurate in the school and the Tassomai data was one of the main reasons why.”
Apr 2020
This is the only platform which systematically helps students learn the thousands of facts necessary for a solid grounding In science. It’s algorithms make it truly personalised to students. Our large, mixed coastal comprehensive school enjoys exceptionally high pass rates and a disproportionate share of top grades. Tassomai is part of this success story.
John Mellitt found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Tassomai is a key part of our science education success formula which has seen outcomes increase to an exceptional level.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Particular impact on lower and middle attaining students who benefit from the stronger foundation in factual knowledge”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Most helpful in motivating students to study”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“The alternative would be to set up a complex retrieval practice stream which would be clunky and time consuming.”
- Significantly provides school data“Tassomai data is a key contributor to our holistic data set for years 10 and 11. The qualityI of this data is part of our success.”
Apr 2020
Quality of product, quality of customer service
Richard Butler found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Formative and summative assessments”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Question and answer sessions, assessments”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Reduces workload, allows more time to focus on lesson planning”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Less time spent organising, monitoring and supporting homework”
- Significantly provides school data“PPEs highlighted key subject knowledge acquired from Tassomai”
Apr 2020
It is an excellent online resource that is invaluable to our staff and students.
Steve Margetts found Tassomai:
- Significantly improves attainment“Improvement in engagement and GCSE achievement”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“GCSE grade improvements”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Its AI features enable the questions to focus upon areas of weakness.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Automatically marking work.”
- Significantly provides school data“Detailed student by students and class by class data analysis.”
