Here you'll be able to go to the files below and cherry pick the resources you need for your relevant subjects! You'll find the student facing instructions and questions, a full-credit response for each question, and a list of points possible for each question.

Below is a step-by-step video of how to access the LiveGrader system to grade student essay submissions for AP 4 courses. Currently, LiveGrader is only available for AP retail courses. Please watch the video carefully, even if you have used LiveGrader in the past. There's a specific process for finding the AP Essay submissions and making sure that you're only getting your relevant subjects. The demo essay in the video is for Computer Science A, so instead of a multiple paragraph essay you'll just see a string of HTML gibberish, but the process of finding and viewing student responses is the same regardless of AP subject.

This video was created for the purpose of scoring the 2020 AP exams, so a few things are not applicable for the current exams. As noted below, students will be entering all responses in one window, so the score will not be out of 6. Additionally, rather than having 30 minutes per essay, you will have NO MORE than 60 minutes to score a student's FRQ submission. For example: scoring the responses for U.S. History Test 1 should take approximately 60 minutes (~20-25 minutes for the DBQ, ~20 minutes for the long essay, and 15-20 for the three short answer questions).

Once you've watched the video, please find and download your relevant documents further down in this dashboard.

Below are the main resources you'll need to study to make sure you're ready to grade AP 4 student essay responses. These files, and the questions and/or rubrics therein, are intended only for use by students in our AP 4 products and in your grading of their essay submissions.

At this time, the LiveGrader system cannot be used by tutoring or Cram Course students.

Due to the way our system is set up, it was necessary to have students enter the responses to ALL FRQs for a given test in the same window. As such, when you select an “essay” to grade, you will be grading all the prompts the student provided for that test. You will be provided with a full-credit response to each prompt, but it is up to you to determine the score a student should receive if the submission is not at the level of the full-credit example.

Please note that some AP exams allowing students to submit hand-drawn images to supplement their typed essays. We're replicating this option by giving students instructions (in relevant products' dashboards) to set up an upload location folder via Dropbox or Google Drive and then provide a link in their essay text. Their link will allow you to access and then download or edit the uploaded image or file. If a student's essay provides a link but no file is found, or you're unable to view or download the file, then you should proceed by grading their essay as though the file was not needed or the student changed their mind about including an upload but left the link.

As different AP exams have different scoring scales, you'll be able to enter a number score for the total number of possible FRQ points. However, we'd also like all graders to start their open-ended comments section with a repetition of the student's numeric score in context of the exam's point scale. For example: "Your essays received a total of 35 out of 46 potential points." At the start of the specific comments for each response, graders should indicate the score for that essay. For example: “Question 1 received a 8 out of 10 potential points.” This will help to provide additional context to our students and remind them of how many points of improvement they have to gain towards writing the perfect AP essay for each prompt.

Before logging into your account and jumping into the LiveGrader essay queue, please make sure you're familiar with your subjects' student facing instructions and questions as well as the relevant full-credit response and/or grading rubric for the essay responses. You will want to download the relevant files below to have on hand while working in LiveGrader. You will have TWO HOURS of prep time per test to familiarize yourself with the available resources. This may be submitted at the “extra help” rate.