DAC App vs Story Wheels

The Digital Audio Capture (DAC) app is a free app developed by College Board and ETS to use for recording students’ audio responses for the AP Music Theory Exam and AP French, German, Italian, and Spanish Language and Culture Exams. This app has been developed to simplify the recording process for students and proctors, utilizing current technology that is intuitive to most students. It streamlines post-exam tasks for school staff by directly uploading student audio files after recording. School staff will follow the instructions in the 2025-26 AP Exam Instructions book to administer an exam using the DAC app. NOTE: The DAC app is limited for use on school-owned and -controlled iPad tablets (iOS 15.0 and above). Schools must update to the 2026 version of the DAC app; previous versions of the app will not work in 2026.

Story Wheels is an app by the Cleveland Play House that is a tool for inspiring stories. To start you decide how many wheels in your story and then choose 3 to 8 wheels. The wheels are created from over 1,100 different images of people, places, and things. The wheels spin and you get a few re-spins to perfect your story wheels. Then you get to write your story and save your story wheels. -- Developed in Partnership with the United States Department of Education. * Something is bound to offend someone. Some of the items are not appropriate for children to use, such as a cigar or a knife or a fire extinguisher, but could still be useful in telling a story. If you don’t like an item or don’t know what it is - you can use one of your re-spins to try for something else. If it still shows up you can always start over. Have fun and enjoy!