Almanack vs TeachShare

Almanack is a web platform for educators planning curriculum lessons and classroom resources across subjects, grade levels, and languages. Teachers can adjust a lesson’s reading level, topic, content, and pacing while keeping the unit structure intact. It can create below-grade, above-grade, ELL, and IEP versions aligned to the same standards, and generate assessments tied to standards, letter grades, and curriculum units with gradebook-ready artifacts. The free plan costs nothing and includes standards-aligned lesson planning, curriculum design, a lesson and unit planner, slides, basic worksheets and activities, quizzes and assessments, educational games, and custom video recommendations. Almanack lists integrations including Google Classroom, Google Forms, Kahoot, GimKit, Blooket, Wayground, Quizlet, Google Slides, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF. Its Google Classroom integration can import courses, publish lessons as assignments, and display classwork in Almanack course pages. School and district users can sign in through Google, Microsoft Entra ID, Clever, or ClassLink, depending on district configuration.

TeachShare is a teaching platform for planning instruction, creating materials, adapting them for students, and reviewing assessment results. Its pacing planner builds guides from adopted curriculum or standards, district calendars, and fixed dates, then adjusts them when schedules change. Teachers can describe a resource in plain language to get a standards-aligned draft, or upload PDF, DOCX, or PPTX files up to 50 MB to create scaffolded, enriched, translated, or accommodated versions. Formative assessment results are grouped by standard and question, helping identify weak areas and students who missed them. The free plan supports assigning and exporting through Google Classroom. TeachShare Copilot, a Chrome extension, reads articles, YouTube videos, and other pages and suggests three classroom ideas. Students do not need paid accounts, and there is no per-student charge. The free plan includes five resources a week; paid plans start at $15/mo (annual). School and district pricing is available by request.