Common Planner vs Planboard

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.

Planboard is Chalk’s lesson-planning tool for teachers building and organizing units and lessons for students. Teachers can create, edit, and share lesson plans, then arrange lessons, subjects, and semesters in a timetable. Plans can include curriculum standards, photos, and files. The service is available on the web, iOS, and Android, and its mobile app syncs with the web version. The free Planboard plan costs nothing. Chalk Gold adds features such as custom colors, lesson search, and Google Classroom integration. Gold users and teachers at schools subscribed to Instruction Solution can also export timetables to Google Calendar and attach Google Drive files; free users cannot share lessons to Google Classroom unless their school has that subscription. Chalk Teams is for teaching groups of 2–10 and includes Gold features and shared lesson collaboration. Public lesson links can make lessons and attachments available for the configured time frame. Chalk says users can view and export their data, request account and data deletion, and download lesson plans.