For international schools teaching AP
AP Economics for schools outside the United States
If your school teaches AP Macroeconomics or AP Microeconomics abroad, you have the same syllabus as a school in Ohio and almost none of the same support around it. No district licence, no local publisher rep, and a review process that was designed for a different country's vendors.
EconLearn's public study tools are free and need no student accounts. Graphs can run inside LMS pages that allow embeds. No software installation is needed, but your school's technology and privacy approval process still applies.
- Free study tools in the browser
- No software installation or payment is needed for the public study tools. Check your school's privacy, vendor-review and classroom-use requirements before a rollout. See what is free.
- It lives inside your LMS
- 21 interactive graphs embed in pages that permit iframes, or ask us about a guided LTI 1.3 setup with your administrator. Install in your LMS.
- Browse graphs without a student account
- Public graphs do not ask for a name or email. Usage analytics still record events, referring hostnames where available, and a random per-tab identifier. Signed-in classroom tools collect account and learning data separately. Read the privacy policy.
- Every time zone, no live support needed
- The whole thing is self-serve and asynchronous. Nothing here depends on a US business day, which matters if you are twelve hours away. Start with microeconomics.
If you teach a different syllabus
Plenty of international schools run more than one programme. The economic models are the same; the exam craft and national context are not, and both of these pages say plainly which parts do not transfer.
- IB Economics, mapped to the syllabus topic by topic.
- A-Level Economics, mapped to AQA and Edexcel.
- Self-studying AP Economics, for a student whose school does not offer the course at all.
Questions international schools ask
- Do our students need accounts to use EconLearn?
- Not to browse the public graphs, glossary, comparisons, worked calculations and study modules. Saving module progress and joining an EconLearn classroom for assignments and grade reporting require a student account with a name and email address. Students sign in before entering the join code; the code does not replace an account. Your school's privacy and technology review requirements still apply to both public tools and classroom use.
- Can we put the interactive graphs inside our own LMS?
- Yes, where your LMS permits external tools. For an iframe, copy a snippet into a page that accepts iframe HTML. For LTI 1.3, ask us about a guided pilot with your LMS administrator. Both graph-embed options are free; your school decides what approval or data agreement is needed. Ungraded graphs do not create learner activity records. Auto-graded LTI activities are different: they store LMS learner and course identifiers, answers, and scores as described in the privacy policy.
- Is the content usable if our students are not native English speakers?
- It was written to be, though not originally for that reason. Definitions are answer-first and capped at about 160 characters, explanations run two to four sentences, and every economic model is available as a diagram you can drag rather than only as prose. A student who is still building academic English can get the model from the graph and use the text to confirm it, rather than needing to parse a page of writing first.
- Does AP Economics content assume US context our students will not have?
- Partly, and that is a feature rather than a problem, because the AP exam assumes it too. The models are universal, but monetary policy is taught through the Federal Reserve and fiscal policy through the US federal budget, exactly as the College Board's course description specifies. If your students are sitting the AP exam, that context is what they are examined on. If you are teaching economics without the AP exam at the end, the IB and A-Level pages map the same graphs onto those syllabuses instead.
- What does it cost, and is there a purchase order process?
- The public graphs, glossary, practice questions and study modules are free permanently, for any school. EconLearn does not require payment or a purchase order to use those resources. Your school may still require approval or a data agreement. Classroom assignment tracking and grade export are optional, with a free pilot semester before paid plans.
- Who runs EconLearn, and will it still be here next year?
- It is built by Jude Wallis, a high school student in California, and it is a real project rather than a class assignment: it is used daily, updated most weeks, and the free tier is the product rather than a trial of it. That is an honest answer to a fair question, and it is why nothing here asks a school to migrate anything or depend on it for grades.
Something here does not fit how your school works? Email jude@econlearn.org with your classroom setup questions.