Important Updates for AP Coordinators for 2025-26
Chromebook Updates
If your school will use Chromebooks for the 2026 AP Exam administration, please note the following updates:
Bluebook on Chromebooks
- To learn the latest about how Bluebook works on Chromebooks, visit the Bluebook website.
DAC App for Chromebooks
- If your school uses the DAC app for Chromebooks to record responses for AP French, German, Italian, Spanish Language and Culture, or AP Music Theory Exams and your school deployed the 2025 version of the DAC app, the app appears updated in the Google Admin console (it will say “DAC App 2026"). However, the app installed on Chromebook will remain the 2025 version. To be ready for the 2026 administration, you must manually uninstall the app before installing the 2026 version (2.0). If the previous version isn’t uninstalled, recording won’t work on exam day.
To ensure the latest version is installed:
- Launch a Chromebook. Don’t log in.
- Click the Apps menu, and then the 2026 DAC app icon to launch the app.
- Click on the ETS logo at the bottom-right corner of the home screen. If it says version 1.0, uninstall the 2025 DAC app and install the 2026 DAC app. If it says version 2.0, the 2026 DAC app is installed.
- All details are in the AP Digital Audio Capture (DAC) App Overview for Chromebook.
Note: There aren't any changes for Chromebooks for AP Chinese and AP Japanese Exams. If you already installed the AP Chinese and AP Japanese exam application on Chromebooks for last year's exam administration, no updates are required aside from the standard readiness checks before exam day.
Guidance for 2026: Smart Glasses
New (March 2026): There’s an update for smart glasses, including details for AP coordinators and proctors when monitoring for smart glasses in the exam room. Go here and scroll to “Guidance for 2026: Smart Glasses”.
Reference Information
For the 2026 fully digital and hybrid digital AP Exams that have relevant reference information, such as equation sheets and reference tables, the reference information will be printed and mailed to schools in addition to being available in Bluebook in the test preview and on exam day. Learn more.
Scratch Paper
For the 2026 AP Exam administration, proctors will initially distribute the same number of pieces of scratch paper (2) for all digital AP Exams—there’s no longer a difference between the number to be distributed for fully digital and hybrid digital AP Exams. See the Exam Day Procedures section in the 2025-26 AP Coordinator’s Manual, Part 2 for details.
Desmos Calculators
All 2026 AP Exams that allow or require the use of calculators—including AP Statistics—will now have the appropriate built-in Desmos calculator in Bluebook. Depending on the exam, this may include graphing, scientific, and/or 4-function (basic). These Desmos updates will also be available in AP Classroom. Note: The AP calculator policies about the types of calculators allowed and how they can and can’t be used aren’t changing. Review details at AP Exams Calculator Policy.
AP Latin
Beginning in 2025-26, AP Latin will include two in-class checkpoint tasks as part of the course project. Teachers will enter students’ checkpoint scores in the AP Digital Portfolio.
2026 AP Capstone Fee Update
Beginning in 2025-26, the exam fee for AP Capstone™ courses (AP Seminar and AP Research) is the same as all other AP Exams: $99 per exam at schools in the U.S., U.S. territories, and Canada, and all DoDEA schools; $129 per exam at schools everywhere else. Review all fee information at AP Exam Fees.