I am starting to get emails from AP about re-uploading a syllabus for the changes to CS A next year. I have not found one yet on code.org’s website. Change the date on the URL did not help either. Does anyone know if this is out yet? Thanks in advance!
On the College Board forums, one provider said they submitted their curriculum but it’s taking the college board some time to go through and approve it all, and I imagine code.org is in the queue as well. So we’ll have to wait for official approval for them first.
I plan on not even bothering with the new changes until after the AP Exams.
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@jeff.rhodes Jeff, thanks for posting your question. I am sure there are other users that are wondering the same thing. I will reach out to the curriculum team and get an update on when the new course outline might be available.
My AP Administrator wanted all AP teachers to complete their audit sooner than later. I ended using the Sample Syllabus provided by the College Board.
Sylvia
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Thanks for bringing this up-- I just went to the college board site, and while you can start submitting course audits now, the ‘preferred deadline’ is in October 2025, with the final deadline in January 2026, for the 25-26 school year.
In the past, Code.org has tried to keep changes from going live until after the current AP exam, to avoid confusion with which year is which- we will probably see the new syllabus and more info about the updated course after the CSA exam in May 2025.
You can see the college board info at this link:
Best,
Lindsay
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Hi Lindsay,
I want to thank the entire code.org team for creating the AP CSA curriculum and the online IDE.
The current curriculum in Unit 1 starts out with the Painter class (similar to Karel The Robot) which is a fantastic pedogical tool for teaching Objects and Inheritance.
With AP CSA removing Inheritance, how will you redesign the Unit 1 and Unit 2 lessons which extensively use the extends keyword?
A few suggestions:
- While I see the version feature, can you let us know when a student does a copy/paste? This could help detect plagiarism from AI LLM’s like ChatGPT.
- Could the IDE support Junit? so teachers can write their own test cases and challenges for students to do?
Thanks!
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@jwoodward1 - Thank you for you suggestions. I will forward these to the curriculum team. At this time, we (I) don’t know what the new CSA course will look like. It wouldn’t be out of the question to keep inheritance even if it’s not tested. On the other hand, there needs to be a unit that incorporates the new framework - like file reading. Stay tuned until mid to late May for the new course to be released.
Sylvia
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Hello → I was wondering if there is going to be a new Code.org CSA curriculum incorporating the changes to the CSA course for next year. I am looking for Unit Plans for the new course and release of the new units.
The new CSA course will be released on May 30, 2025.
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Are there no multiple-choice assessments at the end of the unit in the CED-aligned APCSA curriculum? Would a teacher be expected to generate our own exams based on College Board materials, since the course now aligns with their units?
I think there is an issue with the CED syllabus. The code.org course only goes up to Unit 5, but the syllabus covers all the old units. Is this a mistake or am I missing something?
@jeff.rhodes Thanks for your post. Just for clarification, are you looking at the CED aligned course?
I was looking for the CED syllabus. I assume the one under resources (has the old unit list) is used for both classes. Just wanted to give the students something that matches the course.
@jeff.rhodes - I looked through the CSA CED aligned course and found a syllabus. Please let us know if this is not what you were looking for. I can inquire further.
The one you linked only mentions the CED aligned on page 5, but the next couple of pages are all referring to the older unit layout, not the newer CED. That is were I am confused.
This syllabus attached doesnt match the actual course on Code.org. It gives 9 units (which is last year’s syllabus), but this new course only has 5 units. Thanks
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Sorry for this trouble, I created a helpdesk ticket to alert the curriculum team that this needs to be updated for the CED aligned course. The syllabus submission is not due to the college board until the end of January 2026 for this current 25-26 school year, see this document from the college board for that timeline. It would of course be nice to have the updated one now, but there is time to get it in before the deadline.
Best,
Lindsay
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I just noticed that the change log refers to the old Units 1-9 and mentions only changes to individual lessons. It would be useful to know which lessons were moved to which new unit.
@andrew.richard Thank you for posting to the forum. I agree with you. The curriculum team has been informed that the Syllabus in the “new” course is still showing the CED mapping for the Objects first course. I will inquire about the status of revising the syllabus and suggest that they incorporate a map of the lessons between the courses (thank you for the suggestion).
I know that change is not easy. I am also using the CED-aligned course and miss the resources that I become accustom to.
Sylvia