AP and Pre-AP Courses

Students register for their AP courses in My AP, where College Board may collect certain information about the student, including their legal name, nickname (optional), date of birth, gender (optional), email address, mailing address, high school name, grade level, student ID (optional), race/ethnicity (optional), parent education level (optional), and best language (optional), as well as their AP subject and class section. If enrolling in an AP world language and culture course, we also ask a student if they regularly speak or hear the language at home.

Our AP and Pre-AP platform gives AP and Pre-AP students and teachers resources to use for their AP courses. In contrast to most other College Board products, assessments, and services available to students through their online College Board accounts, students access My AP, AP Classroom, and Pre-AP Classroom as students in a class. AP Classroom collects data on student use of instructional resources, including video viewing, assessment submissions, and assessment scores and results. College Board also captures a student’s IP address and device information collected by the browser (i.e., browser name and version, operating system, and device type), when they take an assessment in the AP and Pre-AP Classroom platform, and shares this information with education professionals of their school to support the course-related activities. College Board conducts internal analytics, such as analyses of course-taking behavior. AP Classroom enrollment information and data on student use of resources (e.g., video viewing activity, assessment submissions [including free-form responses], and results) are shared with the student, their teacher, and school and district administrators.

The school may enter into an agreement with College Board for the BigFuture School mobile app and/or Connections to be available to students enrolled in AP Courses. Both are optional for AP students. College Board collects a mobile phone number from the student in My AP, used only to access the BigFuture School app, and may use a student’s AP course participation and information collected through My AP Profile in BigFuture School and Connections. Learn more about these programs here. 

Students taking certain AP courses will submit student work for scoring and complete tasks in the AP Digital Portfolio platform, through which their My AP information will also be shared with the education professionals of their school. Learn more here.

To learn more, go to AP Central and see AP Services Terms and Conditions.