The AP Year: An Overview

August 2016

Announcements of upcoming AP workshops for professional development are mailed to schools.

Principals or designated school administrators should access their AP Course Audit accounts to renew previously authorized courses for the new school year. All AP Computer Science Principles and AP Research teachers must submit a new course syllabus for authorization during the 2016-17 academic year. AP Calculus AB, Calculus BC, and World History teachers must visit the AP Course Audit website to confirm their awareness and understanding of the updated curricular requirements. New teachers of AP courses should be encouraged to participate in the AP Course Audit if they haven’t already done so. For more information, visit www.collegeboard.org/apcourseaudit.

2016 AP Scholar Award and AP International Diploma recipients are notified via email and may go online to view and print their award certificates.

September 2016

Schools receive annual AP participation materials.

AP Studio Art Portfolio Requirements are mailed to schools to the attention of the AP Studio Art teacher.

Sept. 15 — Deadline for ordering free-response booklets from the 2016 AP Exam administration.

October 2016

Oct. 1 — Deadline for AP Seminar and AP Research teachers to complete the AP Course Audit form and submit course syllabi. Designated administrators must approve Course Audit forms prior to this date.

Schools complete the annual AP participation materials and designate their AP Coordinators.

Mailing of 2016 AP Exam free-response booklets begins to schools that have ordered them.

Oct. 15 — Preferred date by which administrators should renew previously authorized courses for the 2016-17 school year.

Oct. 31 — Deadline for students to request the Multiple-Choice Rescore Service for the 2016 AP Exam administration.

November 2016

AP Course Ledger of authorized 2016-17 AP courses is available at www.collegeboard.org/apcourseledger.

2016 U.S. State and National Summary Reports and the Canadian Summary Report are posted on research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data.

Rebate checks are mailed to AP Coordinators administering at least 150 exams.

Nov. 15 — Deadline for schools to return the AP Participation Form and Survey.

December 2016

The AP Program begins to mail the AP Coordinator’s Manual, a supply of the Bulletin for AP Students and Parents (available in English and, by request, in Spanish or large type), and other information to schools that have submitted AP Participation Forms.

Principals and AP Coordinators receive their AP PotentialTM access codes, which are also available in the K12 score reporting portal.

AP Potential becomes available this month at appotential.collegeboard.org.

Identify students who may need to test with accommodations and start the request process well before the application deadline in February. Visit www.collegeboard.org/apssd for details.

January 2017

AP Coordinators can begin ordering AP Exams online at www.collegeboard.org/school.

Mid to late January — The AP Studio Art Digital Submission Web application becomes available. Visit apstudiodemo.collegeboard.org/ for details.

Jan. 31 — Deadline for initial AP Course Audit submissions, renewals, removal of teachers and courses, addition of online/distance learning courses, and AP Course Audit form approvals for 2016-17 courses.

February 2017

Upcoming AP Summer Institutes for professional development are announced.

Feb. 15 — Postmark deadline for College Board AP Scholarships for Teachers grant applications. Visit www.collegeboard.org/apfellows for details.

Feb. 17 — Deadline for submitting requests for testing accommodations for students with disabilities.

March 2017

Schools may begin submitting AP Course Audit materials for new courses offered in 2017-18.

AP Coordinators work with SSD Coordinators to ensure nonstandard test formats are ordered online.

Deadlines to place orders for preadministration materials: Orders placed by March 8 will be delivered by March 31.

Orders placed between March 9 and March 29 will be delivered by April 10.

April 2017

AP Coordinators receive and check exam materials.

Various exam ordering deadlines occur throughout April — See page 10 for details.

April 21 — Schools outside the United States, U.S. territories, and Canada receive shipments of regular exams no later than this date if exam orders were placed by April 7.

April 24 — Schools in the United States, U.S. territories, and Canada receive shipments of regular exams no later than this date if exam orders were placed by April 14.

April 30 — AP Capstone students must submit all final AP Seminar and AP Research performance tasks and those tasks must be scored by AP Seminar and AP Research teachers by this date.

April 30 — AP Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) performance tasks must be submitted by this date.

May 2017

AP Exams are administered May 1–5 and May 8–12, 2017. See the exam schedule on the back cover.

Alternate exams are administered May 17–19, 2017. See the late-testing schedule on the back foldout panel.

June 2017

AP Exams are scored.

June 1 — Deadline for AP Services to receive all exam materials. Schools are billed twice the fee for each exam in shipments received after this date.

June 15 — Postmark deadline for exam payments and invoices submitted to AP Services. Late payments incur a $225 fee.

June 15 — Deadline for AP Services to receive students’ requests to: change college score report recipients, cancel scores, or withhold scores from the college indicated on their 2017 AP registration answer sheet. Students may withhold or cancel scores at any time, but June 15 is the deadline before release of the 2017 AP score reports to the college indicated on their 2017 AP registration answer sheet.

July 2017

AP score reports are available to designated colleges, students, high schools, and districts.

Teachers of 2016-17 authorized AP courses and school administrators can access AP Instructional Planning Reports. These reports include subject-specific data on how students performed on the various topics within the AP Exams.

July 26–30 — AP Annual Conference 2017, Washington, DC

August 2017

Announcements of upcoming AP workshops for professional development are mailed to schools.

Principals or designated school administrators should access their AP Course Audit accounts to renew previously authorized courses for the new school year. New teachers of AP courses should be encouraged to participate in the AP Course Audit if they haven’t already done so. For more information, visit www.collegeboard.org/apcourseaudit.

 

September 2017

Sept. 15, 2017 — Deadline for ordering free-response booklets from the 2017 AP Exam administration.

 

October 2017

Oct. 15, 2017 — Preferred date by which administrators should renew previously authorized courses for the 2017-18 school year.

Oct. 31, 2017 — Deadline for students to request the Multiple-Choice Rescore Service for the 2017 AP Exam administration.

 

source: AP Program guide 2016-2017