Intended Audience: Affiliation Users
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This guide outlines the responsibilities of local school districts when supporting students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) courses through Michigan Virtual. It explains how affiliation users and AP Coordinators should handle registration for AP Exams on the College Board website, particularly for students who receive instruction from a Michigan Virtual teacher but test at their local school.
Instruction
What Students Must Do
Students enrolled in an AP course with a Michigan Virtual instructor must:
- Create an account on the College Board website.
- Use the “Join Code” provided by their Michigan Virtual AP teacher to join their course section.
- A separate join code must be used for each AP course the student is taking online.
- Access instructional resources in their College Board class section provided by their online instructor.
- Join the “Exam Only” section created by their local school for AP testing purposes.
Important: If a student does not join both the instructional course section (provided by the Michigan Virtual teacher) and the Exam Only section (created by the local school), the AP Exam cannot be ordered.
What Local School AP Coordinators Must Do
To ensure students can take the AP Exam, AP Coordinators at local schools must:
- Create an "Exam Only" section in the College Board system for each AP course being tested locally, even if instruction is provided by Michigan Virtual. If a student is not added to the correct "exam only" section at their local school, it will not be possible to order an exam for them.
- Share the Exam Only “Join Code” with students taking AP courses online through Michigan Virtual.
- Avoid adding students to the roster of a local teacher teaching the same AP course. This ensures that classroom resources and instruction remain correctly aligned with the Michigan Virtual teacher.
- Confirm that students have joined both:
- The Michigan Virtual AP teacher’s course section.
- The local school’s Exam Only section.
By following this process, both the online teacher and the local school will receive the student's AP scores.
Important Reminders
- Michigan Virtual provides instruction only. They do not administer AP Exams.
- Students no longer need to bubble in the “online provider code” on their answer sheets.
- Students in Exam Only sections will not have access to AP Classroom resources. These are managed by the Michigan Virtual instructor.
- The AP Coordinator Manual (see page 64) offers further guidance.
- Visit the AP Exam Administration, Ordering & Scores page for important dates and additional information.