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Some of the exams (like biology) no longer require calculations this year--instead of doing the calculation, you just explain how you would do it. This has been confusing for a lot of students, but it solves the "special input methods" problem.

Right, but Biology isn't the only AP exam that requires calculations. Dealing with integrals for AP Calculus is much more of a pain.

This brings back horrible memories of the janky-ass software we used in calculus for our exams. It took probably 10x longer to answer a question with the GUI because of the symbols and half the time they'd be marked wrong because the system couldn't handle equivalent variations of the correct answer.

I doubt things are much better today. This was probably the "low-tech" solution to a decade+ of dealing with the above problem.

I see, so typing entries is purely a Covid-19 reaction? Sorry, hadn't appreciated that earlier.

Definitely feels like something to keep after things go back to closer to how they were.