MomsintheGarden Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 UPDATE: See detailed instructions in this post below my first signature! I'm trying to set up an account on the College Board to submit an AP syllabus. I'm running into a road block - the FAQ here says: How can homeschool educators label their courses AP?If you are a home school educator wishing to label your courses "AP," you can create an account on the AP Course Audit homepage at www.collegeboard.org/apcourseaudit by clicking the "Create Account Now" link, then selecting “Home School Providerâ€. Once you have created an account, you will be able to submit your Course Audit materials. If you do not have an account and would like to contact us, please use the "Contact Us" link on the Course Audit homepage or call 877-APHELP-0. Unfortunately, there is no selection called "Home School Provider" available to choose from the list. Instead, it requires that I choose a function (teacher) and an organization (a school in a premade list). You can see the problem by going to the AP Course Audit page for AP Computer Science A and clicking the Get Started Create and Account link on that page. (You don't need to create an account or even type in any information to see the list.) At the bottom of the Create Your Professional Account page that appears, scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the list provided by the label "What is your primary job function?" Note that "Home School Provider" is not there. In addition, it requires you to select an employer from "Where do you work?" Has anyone who homeschools recently successfully submitted a syllabus to the College Board? If so, how did you do it? I plan to call the CB tomorrow, but just thought I'd ask now. Thanks! GardenMom UPDATE: Here are detailed instructions on how to gain access to submit a syllabus to AP Course Audit: 1. Go to the AP Course Audit page for AP Computer Science A and just click on the Get Started Create an Account link on that page. (Of course, you can do this from the AP Course Audit page for any AP test.) This will take you to the Create Your Professional Account page. 2. Fill in your "Account Information" as normal. 3. For the "Professional Information", do NOT enter "Zip or postal code of your organization." Leave that space blank. 4. For "Where do you work," enter your state CEEB code (99XX99 where the "XX" depends on your state). For VA, it is 994799. You must type the number (do not press enter) and then wait for "Statename Home School" to appear below that box in light blue. Then click on the light blue text to enter the proper homeschool information for your state into the form. (You can also accomplish the same result by typing "Statename Home School" directly into the form, waiting, and then selecting the proper result from the list. Note that the CB spells out "Home School" as two words, so you must also use this format. Thanks, Sebastian!) 5. Do NOT check the box "My organization is not listed." 6. For the "What is your primary job function?" selection, choose "K-12: AP Teacher." 7. Click "Next: Review." 8. Review your entries and accept that form. (I don't remember what the button is called on that page.) 9. Go to your email and find one from the College Board entitled "Education Professional Registration Confirmation." Open the email and click the link to sign in again and thereby validate your account. 10. Return to the AP Course Audit page for AP Computer Science A page and this time click on the Continue to AP Course Audit link. (It is located in the same green area at the top left of the page where you originally found the link to "Get Started Create an Account." 11. This will open the AP Course Audit page. You will see an error message which reads: Login Error Your Education Professional account is not associated with a school participating in the AP Course Audit. Please return to your Manage AP Course Audit Information page and add an enrollment by selecting your role and association. Click here. Do not panic! This is normal. The person at College Board explained that this message appears because you have not yet set up the course audit area (with basically the same information you just provided a minute ago). 12. Click Click here. :laugh: A new page entitled Get Access to AP Course Audit will appear. 13. Ensure that "Teacher" is selected for "Job Function." 14. Do NOT enter "Zip/Postal Code." Leave that space blank. 15. For "Professional Organization" enter your state CEEB code (99XX99 where the "XX" depends on your state). For VA, it is 994799. You must type the number (do not press enter) and then wait for "Statename Home School" to appear below that box in light blue. (Again!) (You can also accomplish the same result by typing "Statename Home School" directly into the form, waiting, and then selecting the proper result from the list. Note that the CB spells out "Home School" as two words, so you must also use this format. Thanks, Sebastian!) 16. Click the "Add" button. You will see a message which reads: Success! Your access has been added. You can now see your access on the lower right portion of the screen: Your access Remove Organization Position Expiration Date Remove Association Virginia Home School AP Course Audit Teacher 12-Jan-2040 Woohoo!! I'm all set through January, 2040!! :hurray: 17. Click the "Finished" button to see a page for 10 seconds which reads: Your access has been granted Thank you, access to AP® Course Audit has been added to your account!We'll return you back to My Account, If you're not redirected within 10 seconds, click here. That sounds so official!! 18. After waiting for the prescribed 10 seconds, your My College Board Professional Account page will appear. (Without my husband's encouragement, I could not possibly ever wait for that long! :blush:) 19. Click the AP Course Audit hypertext in the "My Tools and Services" area. This again takes you to the AP Course Audit page, but this time without the error! 20. Click the "Add New Course" button. A pop-up window entitled "New Course for Virginia Home School" appears. Select the course for which you want to submit a syllabus and click "Add Course" and then confirm on the next page. The right side of the screen now shows: Homeschool Teacher2014 - 2015 Click here to select academic yearCourse Status Virginia Home SchoolPO Box 2120Richmond, VA 23218 Submit Syllabus Computer Science AInitial Course Submission Not Complete 21. Click the "Submit syllabus" button to submit your syllabus. (I am not providing that link since it is either for "Computer Science A" or for my specific account or perhaps both.) That's it! Wasn't that easy? Hopefully someone else will be helped by these steps (until they change the website next month :glare: ). Please let me know if you have any questions or problems with these instructions. A BIG thanks to my hubby, RegGuheert, for constructing this post for me!!! GardenMom 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFwife Claire Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Boy, I can not for the life of me remember how I did it, and I've done it twice now. I do remember that I ran into that same problem, and I ended up calling--both times, LOL. They were so nice and helpful, and whatever it was they said to do worked like a charm. If only I could remember what it was! Sorry! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsintheGarden Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Boy, I can not for the life of me remember how I did it, and I've done it twice now. I do remember that I ran into that same problem, and I ended up calling--both times, LOL. They were so nice and helpful, and whatever it was they said to do worked like a charm. If only I could remember what it was! Sorry! Thank you. You give me hope! I'll try to remember what they said to do and post it here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyphoe Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Do you not just check the "my organization is not listed" box for the "Where do you work"? A bunch of the K-12 options seem not inappropriate for someone homeschooling - it doesn't specify in what setting you're teaching not-graduated-HS kids. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I think I chose "my organization not listed" and listed myself as the high school AP teacher. Since it is my audit and I am the teacher that was the closest fit. Keep in mind that when they read your syllabus, unless you specify that you are homeschooling in the syllabus, they will never know. You shouldn't have your name or school on the syllabus as submitted. The other option for where you work is to enter the college board code for homeschool. (Isn't that the CEEB code?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I remember having to enter VA Homeschool with I think Richmond as the city, even though we weren't in Richmond. I did have to call the help desk to get to that solution. They were very helpful and didn't seem phased by dealing with a homeschool. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Like a PP said, your CEEB Code will work to get a homeschool work location (State Homeschool) & I'd use K-12 AP teacher as your job function. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsintheGarden Posted January 12, 2015 Author Share Posted January 12, 2015 Like a PP said, your CEEB Code will work to get a homeschool work location (State Homeschool) & I'd use K-12 AP teacher as your job function. Good luck! This is correct! I called this morning, and the CB rep helped me with a 10-minute phone call. Your state CEEB code worked. Remember to chose your AP/PSAT individual state code RootAnn linked to - don't use the more universal SAT code. But the entire process is a bit confusing and has many steps. As such, I have modified the OP of this thread to included all the detailed steps required by a homeschooler to get permission to submit syllabus to the CB. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFwife Claire Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 This is correct! I called this morning, and the CB rep helped me with a 10-minute phone call. Your state CEEB code worked. Remember to chose your AP/PSAT individual state code RootAnn linked to - don't use the more universal SAT code. But the entire process is a bit confusing and has many steps. As such, I have modified the OP of this thread to included all the detailed steps required by a homeschooler to get permission to submit syllabus to the CB. You are a rock star to type all the instructions out in your original post! Thank you!! I remember how it all made total sense when I did it (having called them and being walked through each step), but then later I could not remember the process at all. Now everyone can just refer back to this thread! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 15. For "Professional Organization" enter your state CEEB code (99XX99 where the "XX" depends on your state). For VA, it is 994799. You must type the number (do not press enter) and then wait for "Statename Home School" to appear below that box in light blue. (Again!) For this step, I think you can also type either your state (ie, Hawaii) or Homeschool and the option "Hawaii Homeschool" will show up. At least that worked for me this morning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomsintheGarden Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 For this step, I think you can also type either your state (ie, Hawaii) or Homeschool and the option "Hawaii Homeschool" will show up. At least that worked for me this morning. Thanks! I have modified the OP to include that option in steps 4 and 15. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom32boys Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Thank you so much. This was really helpful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegGuheert Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Bumping this post now that AP Course Audit season is once again upon us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodBlessAPs Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I was able to create an account following the instructions but it keeps showing me "Courses You do not have any courses at this school for the 2018 - 2019 school year. " Does anyone know why this is happening? Could someone share me 2018 practice exams for AP Chemistry, stats, and psychology? Thank YOU! My gmail is: galenoism@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 1 hour ago, GodBlessAPs said: I was able to create an account following the instructions but it keeps showing me "Courses You do not have any courses at this school for the 2018 - 2019 school year. " Does anyone know why this is happening? Could someone share me 2018 practice exams for AP Chemistry, stats, and psychology? Thank YOU! My gmail is: galenoism@gmail.com Did you just create the account? The deadline for submitting syllabuses for 2018-19 was the end of January, I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Can we submit for 2019-2020 now? And if I am using their publish syllabus, do I just copy/paste it into word with no change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 55 minutes ago, Roadrunner said: Can we submit for 2019-2020 now? And if I am using their publish syllabus, do I just copy/paste it into word with no change? I think submission season for the following year typically begins in August. Although I haven't checked the website this year. For their published syllabus there should be a check box to say you are using one of the samples, if not there are instructions on how to submit using a published or sample syllabus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) 8 hours ago, JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst said: I think submission season for the following year typically begins in August. Although I haven't checked the website this year. For their published syllabus there should be a check box to say you are using one of the samples, if not there are instructions on how to submit using a published or sample syllabus. There may be an earlier submission season this year to go along with the FALL registration deadline for the exam. Eta: course audit scheduled to open May 20, 2019. Still a Jan deadline. Edited March 31, 2019 by Sebastian (a lady) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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