Common Planner vs Education Copilot

Common Planner is a web-based collaborative lesson planner for teachers, schools, and districts. Teachers can create lesson and unit plans, organize classes, and reuse planbooks and lessons across school years. They can search for standards, attach them to units, and track which standards have been taught. Shared planbooks support co-planning, sharing plans with administrators, and borrowing plans from other teachers. School leaders can review planning status, standards coverage, and pacing, then comment on lesson plans. The school product page describes AI-assisted insights for identifying missing standards, pacing issues, or instructional gaps. Basic for Teachers includes an AI-powered lesson assistant, daily, weekly, and monthly planning, up to 50 Google Classroom posts, and file uploads from a computer or supported storage services. Pro includes unlimited Classroom posts, unit planning, automatic standards tracking, and up to five collaborators. The Basic plan is free forever; Pro is listed at $5.59 a month, with a one-payment amount of 71.88 USD. The Schools plan includes school-wide templates, membership management, staff training, and ongoing support. There is no app, but the service works through a browser on tablets and smartphones.

Education Copilot is a web-based AI toolkit for teachers creating classroom resources. Its tools generate lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, slides, rubrics, quizzes, student reports, writing prompts, and unit plans. Teachers can request alignment to Common Core, state standards, or standards and curriculum specified in a prompt. Depending on the resource, generated materials can be edited and exported to PDF, Word, Google Docs, or slides. The Free plan costs nothing and includes access to three core AI templates, lesson plans and handouts, editing and exporting, training videos, and community support. Pro costs $9 a month, billed annually at $108/year, and includes 10+ templates, unlimited usage and storage, and access to all AI tools. The pricing page says the toolkit works best for teachers with students in grades 4 and up. The site recommends not entering students’ personally identifiable information and advises users to follow school or district AI guidelines. School and district plans are available by request.