TAO Community Labs: TAO in a Box: Low-Cost, Accessible Assessment Infrastructure

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Through our Innovation Lab program, we are developing TAO in a Box — a compact, all-in-one distribution of TAO Community Edition that runs seamlessly on a Raspberry Pi 4 (8 GB). This monolithic version of TAO can be deployed instantly in classrooms, creating its own Wi-Fi hotspot and providing educators and learners with a ready-to-use assessment environment without the need for complex infrastructure.

By lowering total cost of ownership and reducing technical barriers, TAO in a Box is designed to expand access to digital assessment, especially in schools and regions with limited resources. Its lightweight, portable setup makes it ideal for pilot projects, rapid deployments, and use in medium- and low-resourced countries. This initiative reinforces TAO’s mission to democratize assessment technology, making open source innovation available to all educational communities worldwide.

This project is sponsored by OAT and at the personal initiative and original proposal from Geoffrey Gouez. Stay Tuned for more information.

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TAO on a Raspberry Pi: Our Update from conference.opensource.lu

We were excited to share our latest work at the Open Source Conference in Luxembourg, where we presented how TAO could run “in a box” on a Raspberry Pi.

This simple setup demonstrates how low-cost, open-source infrastructure can make digital assessment tools accessible anywhere even in schools and communities with limited resources. The Raspberry Pi in a box offers:

  • Ultra-low TCO: affordable hardware, no license fees

  • Portability and resilience: works in challenging environments

  • Equity by design: brings standardized assessments to learners everywhere

Our message was simple: open source makes fairness possible everywhere granting to modern technology, but only if paired with collective efforts to strengthen the foundations of education systems.

We’d love to hear your thoughts.