Common Planner vs SchEDU

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.

SchEDU is a planning tool for teachers that turns subjects and class times into a term schedule and classroom activities. It spaces quizzes, orders performance tasks and exams, and accounts for review buffers and holidays. From lesson content, it can draft quizzes, written work, performance tasks and exams. Teachers can track each section separately, including its pace, plan status and completion. Existing PDFs and photos can supply text for lessons and activities, and uploaded templates let generated documents follow a school format. Activities and exams export as Word or PDF. SchEDU supports DepEd school-year calendars and college prelim-midterm-final terms; department heads can see teachers’ plans and progress in one dashboard. The Free plan includes 2 lesson plans for life, 2 subjects, 1 automated activity or exam per day and full-term auto-planning. Pro is $4.99 a month; Max is $9.99 a month. SchEDU says its Android soft launch is planned for the 2026-2027 school year; plan upgrades are available on the web.