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Yes, if you want to use a cell phone and/or a computer to complete your tasks you should have some basic knowledge about how it operates. You can shift respons

Yes, if you want to use a cell phone and/or a computer to complete your tasks you should have some basic knowledge about how it operates. You can shift responsibility for that knowledge wherever you want but I would say that at the age between 16 and 19 (which google tells me is the average age for AP classes) I would expect that knowledge from someone applying for AP credit. And if someone didn't know what the accepted file types (as stated in the FAQ) meant at that age I'd expect them to figure it out for themselves.

thomasfedb 6y ago
I'm unsure that any of these students wanted to take their AP exams on their phone or computer. That this is a new problem suggests that this is something they've been newly forced to deal with. It's certainly not a well engineered user experience. Passing a physics test should require physics knowledge, not knowledge of image formats. I think understanding of image formats is actually fairly obscure outside of technical circles.
- consonaut 6y ago
  Nobody gives a shit what they wanted. This is not a new problem. Take a test, fulfil all conditions of that test. Yes the fulfillment conditions are part of the test. Oh no, teenagers have to learn for 5 minutes about file formats. Your iphone upload does not fulfil the requirements? Oh no, you have to spend 5 minutes to figure it out. This is not an obscure issue. Upload form only takes JPG/PNG? It does not work! Oh no! https://heictojpg.com/ https://heictojpg.com/ Oh, ok. Done. I feel so sorry for your AP candidates. Actually, I feel kinda sorry for your universities.
  - jessaustin 6y ago
    No one rational feels sorry for universities.
    - consonaut 6y ago
      No one rational makes absolute comments on the internet. Maybe university IT departments are staffed by people. Maybe even at the college board it's just some IT guys trying to keep a shitty platform working. Maybe they did the best they could working within their constraints and they expected the same from students who have a vested interest in getting their results submitted. Maybe this is just much ado about nothing.
      - thomasfedb 6y ago
        I don't see why you'd assume that the students did anything less than their best.

thomasfedb 6y ago

I'm unsure that any of these students wanted to take their AP exams on their phone or computer. That this is a new problem suggests that this is something they've been newly forced to deal with. It's certainly not a well engineered user experience. Passing a physics test should require physics knowledge, not knowledge of image formats. I think understanding of image formats is actually fairly obscure outside of technical circles.

consonaut 6y ago
Nobody gives a shit what they wanted. This is not a new problem. Take a test, fulfil all conditions of that test. Yes the fulfillment conditions are part of the test. Oh no, teenagers have to learn for 5 minutes about file formats. Your iphone upload does not fulfil the requirements? Oh no, you have to spend 5 minutes to figure it out. This is not an obscure issue. Upload form only takes JPG/PNG? It does not work! Oh no! https://heictojpg.com/ https://heictojpg.com/ Oh, ok. Done. I feel so sorry for your AP candidates. Actually, I feel kinda sorry for your universities.
- jessaustin 6y ago
  No one rational feels sorry for universities.
  - consonaut 6y ago
    No one rational makes absolute comments on the internet. Maybe university IT departments are staffed by people. Maybe even at the college board it's just some IT guys trying to keep a shitty platform working. Maybe they did the best they could working within their constraints and they expected the same from students who have a vested interest in getting their results submitted. Maybe this is just much ado about nothing.
    - thomasfedb 6y ago
      I don't see why you'd assume that the students did anything less than their best.