Akari vs OpenCurriculum

Akari is curriculum management software for higher education institutions. It supports collaborative curriculum design, review, approvals, and publication, then maps teaching and assessment activities to learning outcomes and professional accreditation standards. The platform maintains curriculum versions across downstream systems serving different student cohorts. Governance features include automatic publication, CMA compliance support, evidence of pedagogy evolution, and organisational risk reduction. Integrated intelligence and visualisations support curriculum and operational management. Akari’s RESTful open APIs connect with student information systems, virtual learning environments, content management, CRM, timetabling, library systems, and data warehouses or BI tools; named integrations include SEAtS ONE, Tribal SITS, MortarCAPS, Amos, and DegreeReady. It runs in modern browsers without installation and is designed for mobile devices. Public-cloud and private-cloud deployment are available as a single-tenant service hosted in AWS. Akari states 99.5% standard uptime. The company was established in 2010 as a Cork, Ireland spin-out. Pricing is available on request.

OpenCurriculum is a curriculum planning tool for creating lessons and units with an editor and a library of teaching materials. Its library includes hundreds of lessons, strategies, activities, formative assessments, discussion questions, and worksheets contributed by teachers, researchers, and publishers. Plans can be viewed by course, unit, or lesson in planner, calendar, and semester or academic-term views. A standards picker supports national and state standards as well as school-created learning targets. Sharing permissions, department or PLC Groups, Libraries for organizing materials, and school-wide search support collaboration. The plan comparison lists Google Drive and Google Calendar integrations, along with reporting on standards, planning processes, vocabulary, learning objectives, and assessments. School leaders can use custom templates, learning outcomes, course catalogs, and activity templates. The free Teacher plan is for one user and up to 10 courses; the free Team plan supports up to 10 users and 50 courses. School costs $5 per user per month with a 10-user minimum and unlimited courses. Network pricing is custom. OpenCurriculum describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.