Common Planner vs OnCourse Lesson Planner
Common Planner
commonplanner.com
OnCourse Lesson Planner
oncoursesystems.comSide by side
| Figure | Common Planner | OnCourse Lesson Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5.59/mo | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 5 | 1 |
| Spec score · Lesson Planning Software | 9.4 (#1) | 7.0 (#22) |
| Collaboration | Teachers can co-plan in a shared planbook, share plans with administrators, and borrow plans from other teachers. | Teachers can share plans with colleagues, submit them to administrators, and receive supervisor feedback. |
| Purpose | Common Planner describes itself as a real-time collaborative lesson planner for teachers, schools, and districts. | OnCourse Lesson Planner is designed for K–12 lesson planning and aligning lessons with a district’s curriculum. |
| Standards | Users can search for standards, attach them to lessons and track standards coverage. | The subscription includes updated academic standards for common content areas; OnCourse says its Academic Benchmarks library contains more than 4 million standards. |
| Support | The Schools plan includes free staff training and ongoing support throughout the year. | Support requests are answered seven days a week, while live chat or telephone support is available from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. |
Plans
Common Planner
- Basic for TeachersFree
- Pro for Teachers$5.59 a month
- Pro for Teachers (monthly)$5.59 a month
- Pro for Teachers (annual)$71.88 a year
- Cc for SchoolsPriced on request
In their own words
Common Planner
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.
OnCourse Lesson Planner
OnCourse Lesson Planner has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.