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Reviewing Student Work and Progress

Key Reminders

  • Students are responsible for submitting their 3 portfolio components (Sustained Investigation Images, Sustained Investigation Written Evidence, and Selected Works) to the AP Program as final in the AP Digital Portfolio by the AP Program deadline. However, it’s a best practice for teachers to set their own earlier deadlines for students to submit their portfolio components so teachers have ample time to review the work for plagiarism and confirm all portfolio components are submitted by the AP Program deadline.
  • If a student submits their 3 portfolio components in the AP Digital Portfolio and the teacher takes no action, the student's portfolio will automatically be submitted to the AP Program for scoring at the AP Program deadline (as long as the AP coordinator previously ordered an exam for the student).
  • If there’s a technical error, a teacher should return the impacted portfolio component(s) to the student. It’s the teacher’s responsibility to alert the student that they need to take action in the AP Digital Portfolio. The AP Digital Portfolio does not alert students if a portfolio component is returned to them. The student will need to resubmit their work in the AP Digital Portfolio by the AP Program deadline for it to be sent to the AP Program for scoring.

Navigating the AP Digital Portfolio

Within the AP Digital Portfolio, you can view the overall progress of students within a class section and review student work that is either in progress or submitted as final. The following sections walk you through the steps to complete each type of review.

 

How to View Overall Progress of Students Within a Class Section

  1. From your AP Digital Portfolio homepage, select the portfolio type and class section you’d like to view. (You can also select the My Classes dropdown menu at the top right of your screen and choose the appropriate class section from there.) 
  2. Under Class Summary select Progress.  
  3. From the Progress page, you’ll see an overview of all students in this class section and their portfolio submission progress. 

Important: Students can upload work in the AP Digital Portfolio even if an AP Exam hasn’t been ordered for them by the AP coordinator. However, work will only be sent to the AP Program for scoring if an AP Exam has been ordered for the student.  

  • If the student’s name has an exam status of Registered, it means an exam has been ordered for them.
  • If you see Not Taking Exam or Not Registered Yet in the row with the student’s name on the Progress page, it means they do not have an exam ordered for them and it won’t be sent to the AP Program for scoring. You and your student should work with the AP coordinator to ensure an AP Exam is ordered for them.

From the Progress page, you’ll see the status for each student’s portfolio components in the class section.  

  • Not Started: Student hasn’t started working on the portfolio component. 
  • In Process: Student started working on the portfolio component, but it hasn’t been submitted as final.
  • Not Reviewed: Student has submitted the portfolio component as final, but the teacher has not yet reviewed the submission and affirmed authenticity.
  • Complete: Student submitted the portfolio component as final and the teacher has reviewed it.

How to View a Student’s Work

To view students’ work in progress:  

  1. From the Progress page, open the portfolio component you’d like to view by clicking the arrow.
  2. From there, you will be able to see the student’s work for that component. 
  3. You will be able to navigate to other portfolio components for that student using the menu bar at the top.
  4. To see other students’ work for that same component, use the Next Student and Previous Student buttons at the bottom of the page.

If a student has submitted a portfolio component as final, you will see a Submitted status next to the component name:

Screenshot of a student’s AP Art and Design portfolio component displaying a Submitted status

If the student has not submitted as final, you will see an In Process status next to the component name:

Screenshot of a student’s AP Art and Design portfolio component displaying an In Process status

To view slideshows or download copies of the work:

  • Sustained Investigation Images and Selected Works Images Components: Select View as Slideshow to see the supporting information that the student entered for each image. To download and save images, select Download under each work.
  • Sustained Investigation Written Evidence Component: To download a PDF of the Written Evidence submission, select Download Latest Submission.

Once a student has submitted a portfolio component as final, you can review their final submitted work, check for plagiarism, and return a portfolio component to the student in the event of a technical error.

Note: You can only report a portfolio component for plagiarism or return a portfolio component to a student once it’s been submitted as final by the student. You can’t take these actions for work that’s in progress but not yet submitted.

Key Dates

Fri, May 7, 2027

11:59 PM ET

Deadline: Students Submit AP Art and Design Portfolios

This is the AP Program deadline for students to submit their 3 portfolio components as final through the AP Digital Portfolio.

AP Art and Design Digital Image Requirements