Tassomai

What Tassomai is

Tassomai is an adaptive learning app for school-age students in the UK, built around retrieval practice: short multiple-choice quizzes that keep testing what a learner knows and send them back to what they have not yet secured. The home page calls its adaptive learning program "the ideal way to help students prepare for GCSEs, 11+ and other exams". It reaches students two ways. Schools use it to set and mark homework, and families buy it directly as a private subscription. A banner on the homeschooling page sums up the family offer as courses for learners aged 7-17 on monthly subscriptions.

The About page says Tassomai was founded by learning and revision expert Murray Morrison, who built the program to help his own students learn more effectively. He borrowed techniques from sports and music coaching to create a program that would "test and teach through continuous practice and adapted repetition." Since 2012, the page says, he has focused fully on developing Tassomai as software and a business, and the tool has helped "over 250,000 students get their best possible grades." The home page adds that it is trusted by 500+ schools, that millions of quiz questions are answered every day and that more than 2 billion have been answered in total. The company is Tassomai Ltd, and its footer gives a London studio address.

The home page also lists its awards: #1 in Business Cloud's EdTech50 for 2025, three Education Resource Award wins, eight places as a Bett Award finalist, and a Home Learning award.

How the quizzing works

A learner works through quiz questions mapped to the subjects on their account. According to the homeschooling page, Tassomai's algorithm "works out which topics they need to focus on and guides them through the material", so the student does not have to decide what to revise next and a parent does not have to plan every session. The About page describes the same idea from the other side: the program's "essential power" is to identify where students need more support and direct them, along with their teachers and parents, to practice and resources that can help.

When a learner is stuck, help comes from Mai, which the site calls its built-in AI-powered tutor. The homeschooling page says Mai is accessible 24/7, explains errors and assists learners who need help, without giving away the answer. That last detail matters for a revision tool: the student still has to reach the right answer, rather than copy it.

Motivation is built in. Each subject carries Daily and Weekly Goals, and the home page testimonial from a head of science credits those goals with her results. The site describes an intuitive interface and a "gamified learning environment", and a banner on the home page announces new Bronze, Silver and Gold Tassimal Ranks, plus three ultra-rare Lemur Tassimals. Progress is mapped on what the site calls the Tassomai Tree, which shows where a learner's knowledge gaps sit.

Subjects and courses

The site's subject menu lists science, math, English, history, geography, computer science, Latin, French and MFL vocabulary. Content is exam-board specific, and the homeschooling page says the quiz content covers the relevant curriculum points in up to 10 GCSE subjects, depending on the learner's age. Below GCSE there is a separate route for KS3 private subscribers, and the footer links to pages on 11+ exams and CE 13+ exams, so the app covers entrance exams as well as GCSEs.

The newest addition is a set of three vocabulary courses for Spanish, French and German. A company blog post says they hold more than 6,000 multiple-choice questions in total and suit learners in years 7 to 11. They were developed in line with the new DfE prescribed vocabulary list, which the post says was selected mostly on how often words occur in the language. The courses are not board specific: they apply across all exam boards, though they are structured by reference to the AQA specification. Because no vocabulary list is set at KS2 and KS3, the courses assume no prior knowledge and suit beginners below GCSE level. The French vocabulary course sits beside the original French grammar course rather than replacing it, and account overseers see both in the courses menu on their dashboards.

For schools and teachers

For a school, Tassomai is a homework engine. The home page invites teachers to let Tassomai set and mark homework and to use the insights from their Teacher Dashboard to make targeted interventions, and it promises time savings for teachers. The footer points schools to further pages on impact reporting, case studies, Leapfrog Sessions, free live lessons, videos and linked resources, and information for parents whose children use Tassomai through school. Separate subject pages exist for science, English, math, computer science, geography, history and MFL teachers.

The school testimonial on the home page comes from Claire Crichton-Allen, Head of Science, who calls Tassomai one of her best investments as Head of Faculty and writes: "Encouraging students to hit their Daily Goals paid off and results that year didn't just speak for themselves - they sang from the rooftops!" The homeschooling page notes that she now uses the program to homeschool her own daughter.

Families whose child gets Tassomai through school are not left out. They can join the Parent Club and Boost their child's account, adding extra subjects such as the new language courses for a low-price monthly subscription, according to the vocabulary course post.

For families and home educators

Private subscribers use the same app at home. The homeschooling page says home-educated learners can use Tassomai "when and where they want using any online device", and that most students choose the Tassomai app. Parents and guardians get their own Parent Dashboard, where they can keep an eye on Daily and Weekly Goals for each subject, control which subjects and topics the learner focuses on, and find knowledge gaps through the Tree. A weekly email progress report goes to parents, the algorithm recommends learning resources for parent and student to review together, and parents, or a private tutor, can view usage data to see what has been understood.

The site says its approach is also beneficial for SEND students, and a linked article on the same page notes that many parents find the personalized nature of the platform and its "low-stakes" approach particularly suitable for children with special educational needs. One homeschooling parent, Kenneth, describes his son's routine: "He typically starts each day using Tassomai on his iPad to complete goals in all of his subjects. Tassomai has given him a clear foundation and he can go through enough material in an hour or two on the app that would rival what he would learn in a week at school."

The homeschooling page also offers free downloadable PDF guides: a GCSE Survival Guide for Parents running to 35 pages of practical advice, a shorter edition for students, a guide for parents of children in years 7-9, and one on teenage mental health and wellbeing. It links out to home education help from Gov.uk, the Home Education Advisory Service and Education Otherwise.

Plans and trials

Families and home educators can try Tassomai free for 7 days before subscribing, and the home page advertises free trials for schools as well, with a separate route for teachers to trial it in school. Private plans are monthly subscriptions, and the vocabulary course post refers to packages for Y7-8 and Y9-11 students, with the new language courses included in those existing price plans. The site shows no prices for either the family or the school route.

Who it suits

Tassomai suits UK families and schools working toward GCSEs, 11+ entry or CE 13+, or building KS3 knowledge, especially for students who respond to short daily goals, ranks and visible progress. Home educators get a structured, curriculum-based option with parent oversight and weekly reports, and teachers get homework that sets and marks itself. The main caveat is the format: Tassomai is a practice tool built on multiple-choice quizzes and feedback from Mai, not a course of taught lessons, so a learner meeting a topic for the first time will lean on a teacher or on the videos and linked resources the site points to. For recall of core knowledge across many subjects at once, it is a well-supported choice with a free trial to test it first.