Common Planner vs TeachShare

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.

TeachShare is a teaching platform for planning instruction, creating materials, adapting them for students, and reviewing assessment results. Its pacing planner builds guides from adopted curriculum or standards, district calendars, and fixed dates, then adjusts them when schedules change. Teachers can describe a resource in plain language to get a standards-aligned draft, or upload PDF, DOCX, or PPTX files up to 50 MB to create scaffolded, enriched, translated, or accommodated versions. Formative assessment results are grouped by standard and question, helping identify weak areas and students who missed them. The free plan supports assigning and exporting through Google Classroom. TeachShare Copilot, a Chrome extension, reads articles, YouTube videos, and other pages and suggests three classroom ideas. Students do not need paid accounts, and there is no per-student charge. The free plan includes five resources a week; paid plans start at $15/mo (annual). School and district pricing is available by request.