Why Aim for Five
Keep AP Classroom. Add the parts that save you time.
Most AP® teachers already use AP Classroom from College Board, and you should keep using it. Aim for Five is free and does a different job: it takes the first pass at grading free response, shows you exactly what to reteach, and sends each student follow-up practice on their own. Here's an honest look at what each one is for.
The demo needs no sign-up. Making a class takes about a minute.
Use both
Two tools, two jobs
Aim for Five follows the same unit and topic numbers as the official course and exam descriptions, so Unit 3 here lines up with Unit 3 in AP Classroom and you can use both in the same week.
Keep using AP Classroom for
- Personal Progress Checks. College Board's own unit checks, with the progress dashboard that goes with them.
- Topic Questions. Short official question sets on topics across the course.
- AP Daily videos. Short videos by AP teachers that go through the course topic by topic, to assign or use in class.
- The AP Question Bank. Official questions to build your own quizzes and tests from.
- Unit guides. The course framework, unit by unit, as College Board lays it out.
- Official scoring materials. Scoring guidelines, sample student responses and past free-response questions from College Board, on AP Central.
Add Aim for Five for
- AI first-pass scoring of free response, row by row, which you review
- Item analysis with the most-picked wrong answer
- Reteach suggestions with one-click follow-up sets
- Automatic follow-up practice for each student
- A teacher-only question bank with answers held back
- Projector warm-ups and printable quizzes with answer keys
- Pacing to exam day, co-teachers and a CSV gradebook
- Free, with no ads, no school setup and minimal student data
Aim for Five is independent. AP®, Advanced Placement® and Bluebook™ are trademarks registered or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this site.
What Aim for Five adds
Built for the slow parts of teaching an AP class
Ready in 21 courses. Every piece below is on the site today, and each links to the step in the guide that shows how it works.
Free response
Start grading from a first pass, not a blank stack
- Students type their answer part by part. The AI scores each answer row by row against the question's rubric, with a short reason for every row.
- In the review queue, go one student at a time or one rubric row for the whole class. Accept each row in one click or change its points, then accept the rest you agree with in bulk.
- Your score always wins and replaces the AI's in the gradebook. Students see each row's points, the reason and your comment only when you release feedback.
Results
See which question, and which wrong answer
- Multiple choice scores itself. Item analysis lists the most-missed questions first, how many students picked each choice, and the most-picked wrong answer with why it's tempting.
- A class heatmap shows each student's share right by topic, skill or unit, with a plain table view too.
- Check-in flags point out students under 60% on two of their last three assignments, or with past-due work. A nudge to look, not a verdict.
Reteaching
Data with a next step attached
- Reteach suggestions list topics under 70% across the class, weakest first, each linked to notes and videos on the site.
- Each one comes with a short follow-up set you can assign in one click.
- After every assignment, each student automatically gets a short practice set on the topics they missed. You can turn this off per assignment.
Teacher-only questions
Questions whose answers aren't online
- Verified teachers get a teacher-only question bank, ready now in 17 courses. It never appears on public pages, in search or in the site map.
- Students only receive the questions in an assignment they're in. Correct answers and explanations stay on the server until the due date, or until you release them.
- Question order and answer choices are shuffled for each student, unless you turn that off.
In the room
Warm-ups on the projector, quizzes on paper
- A question of the day in big type for the projector: give the class a minute, then reveal the answer and why it's right.
- Build a quiz from exam-style questions, save it to your library, and print a clean student copy with a separate answer key.
- A pacing view counts the weeks to exam day, shows which units you've covered and suggests a week-by-week plan.
Running the class
Set up in a minute, with nothing for the school to do
- Students join with a six-letter code, a link, a QR code, a printed handout or a post to Google Classroom. No rostering and no school or College Board account.
- Add a co-teacher, student teacher or colleague to share a class.
- Download the gradebook as a spreadsheet (CSV) to copy scores into your school's gradebook.
Free and private
No cost, no ads, little data
- Everything for teachers is free, for you and your students. There are no ads anywhere, and we never sell data.
- You see the name a student gives when they join and the work they do for your assignments. Their own studying on the site stays private to them.
- AI scoring gets only the question and the answer, never a student's name or email.
- Students can leave a class or delete their account any time, and removing a student or deleting a class deletes that work.
Good to know
What we don't do
So you know what you're getting before you make a class.
- It isn't official College Board material. Our questions are exam-style practice written for this site, following the same unit and topic numbers as the official course descriptions. They aren't College Board's questions, and they don't replace its Progress Checks.
- AI scores are a first pass. They can be wrong, especially on unusual or very short answers, so review them before you release feedback. Answers too short to score are left for you to score by hand.
- AI scoring has a daily limit per teacher. If you reach it, the queue tells you, it resets at midnight UTC, and you can score the rest yourself in the meantime.
- No roster or grade sync. The Google Classroom button posts a link; it doesn't sync rosters or grades with Google Classroom or your school's gradebook. The CSV download is how scores get across.
- Teacher-only questions need a check first. A person looks at each teacher-access request, usually within a couple of days. The bank isn't in every course yet: it's ready for 17 of the 21 courses. Everything else works with the public questions while you wait.
- Full practice exams are World History only for now. In the other courses you assign unit multiple choice, free-response questions (short answers, DBQs and long essays in the history courses) and your own quizzes.
- Students must be 13 or older, and each one signs in with their own free account. We don't hold a formal privacy certification and won't claim one; the privacy answers for teachers say what we do instead.
See it with a real class
Look around the demo class first, or make your own in about a minute. The guide walks through every screen.
Know a teacher who'd want this? Print a flyer or send an email.