Common Planner vs Ignite

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.

Ignite is a free web platform from Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education for educators preparing lessons, collaborating, and sharing resources. It provides planning tools, materials, templates, and formats, plus a repository for educator-developed lesson plans and teaching aids based on master templates. Its resource library includes curriculum materials and past questions and answers. Listed subjects include Mathematics, English Language, Agriculture Science, Physical and Health Education, Basic Science, and Home Economics. A sample topic page organizes performance objectives, teacher activities, teaching aids, student takeaways, and assessment questions, with an option to download questions. The site says it aims to keep lesson-planning resources available across different local network conditions. A free plan is listed at free. Registration requests first and last name, email, phone number, gender, and password, while TRCN is optional. Sign-in accepts an email address or phone number with a password and provides a password-reset link. The web platform is presented as a resource and lesson-planning service for educators.