BookWidgets vs Teach Starter

BookWidgets is a content creation and evaluation tool for teachers to build digital exercises and activities and share them with students. Its library has over 40 widget types, including quizzes, worksheets, games, and interactive activities. Quiz, Video Quiz, Worksheet, and Split Worksheet activities offer 36 question types, 30 of which can be automatically graded. Teachers can use activities for formative or summative assessment, monitor progress, and collect, review, grade, and return work with feedback. LMS integrations include Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard, Brightspace, itslearning, and Smartschool. Through a connected LMS, teachers can monitor students in real time and synchronize grades. Students can access activities through a web link, LMS, QR code, or short code without logging in to BookWidgets. A free 30-day trial offers unlimited widget creation. Without an active subscription, users cannot create or edit widgets, and LMS integrations stop working.

Teach Starter is a web-based library of teaching resources, classroom tools, and educator apps for K–6 teachers. Its collection covers curriculum-aligned printable and digital worksheets, activities, games, and classroom materials across subjects including English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, health, fine arts, languages, and social-emotional learning. Resources come in formats such as Google Slides, PowerPoint, PDF, Word, and Google Sheets. With Plus, teachers get editable resources, lesson plans that combine materials with differentiation and assessment guidance, and unit plans that group lessons. Teach Starter Studio supports creating and adapting resources and display materials. The Free plan costs nothing, requires no credit card, and limits downloads to free resources, which are non-editable. Plus costs $6.08 a month, billed $73 yearly. School Plan costs $73 a year per teacher, requires at least five teachers, and includes Plus and one administrator account. Plus resources and digital tools remain available only during the subscription period.