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Tassomai comes top in this year's EdTech 50 poll!
The Tassomai team are absolutely delighted to be named number 1 in Business Cloud Magazine’s EdTech 50 for 2025!
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January Challenge 2025 - Prize Draw Results
We’ve had a look at the Tassomai usage stats and can now reveal the students who have won prizes in our Big January Challenge .
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'Mai Explains' on the Tree - and extra Mai credits over half-term!
The Tassomai Tree just got bigger and better! Now students can learn from their mistakes by exploring detailed explanations on the Tree - and they’ll have extra Mai Explains credits over half term week .
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Help us secure a spot in the EdTech 50!
If you’re a Tassomai fan, please take a moment to vote for us inBusiness Cloud Magazine’s EdTech 50 . The polls close at 23:59 on Sunday 16th February.
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Time to Talk Day 2025: Encouraging Conversations with Children – Tips for Parents
Ahead of Time to Talk Day, Emma Yentis hosted a webinar for Tassomai parents about having conversations with children and how vital they are for fostering understanding, emotional intelligence, and resilience.
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Win a free Tassomai subscription – Introducing Tassomai Tuesdays!
Enter Tassomai Tuesdays , our new weekly competition where five families will receive a free 5-month Tassomai subscription ! The prize-draw starts on Tuesday 11th February.
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The Science of Effective Learning: How to Help Your Child Revise Smarter, Not Harder
Many students revise the wrong way — re-reading and highlighting don’t help knowledge stick! Discover the science-backed strategies that make revision more effective and help learners prepare for GCSE exam success.
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New features for Tassomai teachers
Learn more about Tassomai’s new data-driven weekly reports for teachers , our dashboards for senior leaders and a change to our binary quiz-question format .
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Exams this year? Here’s how to make the most of the next few months (and how Tassomai can help!)
2025 is just beginning but exam season will come around quickly! Here’s what parents can expect over the next 6 months, and how they can help students prepare for exams.
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Tassomai’s January Challenge 2025!
To kick-start 2025 Tassomai is challenging students to complete 20 or more Daily Goals in January to be in with the chance of winning a prize! Are you up for the challenge?!
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Displacement reactions explained: GCSE chemistry
Displacement Reactions are an important topic for GCSE chemistry students to understand and one which comes up regularly in GCSE science exams. It’s also a topic which we know many students struggle with. Read this blog post to get to grips with Displacement Reactions !
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A very Mai-rry Christmas!
Tassomai’s AI-tutor is getting into the Christmas spirit this holiday season and we are increasing the Mai allowance for school users for a 4-week period!
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Tricky topics in GCSE Maths: Calculating Percentages for Ratios
Calculating Percentages for Ratios is an important topic for GCSE maths students to get to grips with, as it’s an exam specification point for major exam boards . It’s also a topic which we know many students struggle with. Read this blog post to get to grips with Calculating Percentages for Ratios !
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How Class Tasks make homework less work
Holly Bradshaw , Curriculum Leader for Science at Marple Hall School , spoke to us about how Class Tasks are helping with homework setting and boosting students’ confidence.
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Version 2.0 - We’re Updating Class Tasks
After some very helpful teacher feedback , we’re excited to announce that we’ve updated the Class Tasks feature. Read this blog to find out what’s new .
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Free accounts for Tassomai teachers’ children!
One of the benefits of being a Tassomai teacher is a free private subscriber account for your own child, or to gift to a family member or friend’s child.
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Our Best Ever Offer for Private Subscribing Families!
Our autumn 2024 promotion gave new private subscribers a discounted rate for 8 months. This offer has now ended.
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Extra Mai credits (and 'spooky Mai') over half-term!
Tassomai’s AI-tutor is getting into the Halloween spirit at half-term and we are increasing the Mai allowance for school users for one week to help students prepare for mock exams.
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Your Mental Health is their Educational Wealth
Chris Gunner, the Customer Success Manager at Tassomai and a former English teacher shares his tips on reducing teacher stress and how Tassomai can play a part in helping by reducing marking and making homework setting easier.
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Tassomai and YoungMinds' webinar on Teenage Mental Health
For World Mental Health Day, Tassomai invited parents to join a webinar on Teenage Mental Health with Stevie Goulding, from the charity YoungMinds . In this blog you can find out what was covered and watch a recording of the webinar .
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Quiz Powers
New: Quiz Powers! Students can now use special abilities during quizzes — eliminate a wrong answer or get hints from AI tutor Mai. Powers are earned by hitting the correct answer target, encouraging accuracy while making quizzing more fun.
Tools for teachers
The Group Quiz feature!
Teacher-led, group-based Tassomai quizzes — personalised for each class — powered by students’ usage data. Put Tassomai on screen in the classroom and use Group Quiz for:
Quick and easy lesson starters
Targeted, high-impact revision sessions
Cover lessons any teacher can run
Headteacher CASE STUDY
“Great bang for your buck”
Less marking. Fewer admin headaches. More meaningful impact. Find out how Tassomai helped Horsforth School reduce teacher workload while improving student outcomes.
TIPS FOR TEACHERS
Big changes to your Teacher Dashboard
We've made a series of enhancements to make management and admin easier for teachers and TassoChamps.
The latest update makes it easier to organise learner accounts — from creating and editing students to managing groups and settings.
Trial results data
Closing the attainment gap with ‘Pupil Premium Boost’
Twenty schools that use Tassomai partnered with us to trial a differentiated intervention for their Pupil Premium students.
The results showed a profound impact on attainment, with PP students on the trial making 35-45% more progress than their peers!
Media coverage: Business Cloud Magazine
Beyond homework: How Tassomai is powering learning in the classroom
With the growing use of Class Tasks and the introduction of its brand new Group Quiz feature, Tassomai is evolving.
Awards and accreditations
Top of the 2025 EdTech charts!
The Tassomai team were absolutely delighted to be named number 1 in Business Cloud Magazine’s ‘EdTech 50’ for 2025!
Thank you to the EdTech 50 judging panel and to everyone who voted for Tassomai.
Media coverage: Pupil Premium Boost
Closing the Pupil Premium attainment gap
Tassomai’s founder Murray Morrison was featured in Education Today magazine talking about Tassomai’s new intervention for Pupil Premium students and the impact it’s had so far.
Product feature: “Engagement Rankings”
Teachers… track and compare your school’s performance!
Dashboards have a smart feature for teachers to track their school’s Tassomai performance. Our national Engagement Rankings show teachers and school leaders how their school compares to other Tassomai using schools in 4 key areas.
