Common Planner vs TeachTools

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.

TeachTools is a web service for K–12 teachers who need generated classroom materials. It provides 26 specialized AI tools for worksheets, quizzes, lesson plans, schemes of work, rubrics, report-card comments, crosswords, word searches, bingo cards, parent emails, newsletters and other resources. Grade coverage runs from Kindergarten through 12th grade, with subjects including Math, Science, ELA, Social Studies, World Languages, Art, Music, PE and Special Education. Materials can be downloaded as PDFs, sent to Google Docs or printed directly. Students do not create accounts or interact with the AI, and TeachTools says it collects no student personally identifiable information. It says the service is FERPA compliant and offers a Data Processing Addendum to districts. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Plans include Free at free, Starter at $2 a month, Plus at $5 a month and Pro at $10 a month.