Common Sense Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum vs MobyMax

Common Sense Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum is a free web curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12. It gives teachers a framework for digital literacy and well-being, with standards alignment and teacher tools. The program covers healthy habits, relationships and communication, privacy and safety, cyberbullying and online harm, digital footprint, and information and media literacy. Its offering includes more than 165 updated lessons, described on the About page as 170+ lessons. Lessons combine interactive activities and discussion guides, taking about 20 minutes for K–8 or 40 minutes for grades 9–12. Topics include AI literacy, social media, screen time, deepfakes, consent, and AI hallucinations. Schools may follow a complete grade sequence or select and reorder lessons. A free self-paced implementation course is available for teachers and administrators. Lessons can fit library, media lab, subject, advisory, health, or social-emotional learning programs. The curriculum was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco.

MobyMax helps teachers identify and address learning gaps for students from kindergarten through eighth grade. It offers 115 curriculum modules and assigns lessons based on diagnostic results and student progress. Assessments include Skill Checker, Placement Tests and Benchmarker tests based on state standards. Teachers can monitor progress in real time and review standards data by student, class, school or district. Interactive Class tools support live lessons using the curriculum. Automatic rostering is available through Clever and ClassLink; users can also sign in with Google Classroom credentials or import a CSV. Clever use has licensing eligibility requirements, and continued syncing requires at least 11 active students per school. MobyMax is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web and Windows; its remote-learning document says it works on a device with a browser and internet connection. The free educator version provides limited access compared with licensed features. The Family plan costs $7.99 per month for K–8 subjects. The maker says it complies with COPPA and FERPA, does not collect students’ personal home addresses, Social Security numbers or dates of birth, and uses encryption to protect personal information.