CourseLoop vs OpenCurriculum

CourseLoop is an end-to-end curriculum management platform for higher education institutions, with modules for structured curriculum data, governance, review, mapping, publishing, marketing, and student study planning. Curriculum Data Management stores programme, module, and area-of-study information in configurable forms. Governance automates proposal workflows and task allocation, while audit records track changes and connect item versions. Review supports scheduled reviews, templates, and feedback; Mapper visualizes curriculum relationships and can highlight gaps against standards, accreditation requirements, learning outcomes, and competencies. Marketer lets institutions create and publish marketing content alongside curriculum items. Student Study Planner supports digital study plans that help students track pathways to qualification goals, and plans can be published to a course catalogue with links to relevant pages. APIs make curriculum data available to downstream systems, with schemas in the Developer Portal. CourseLoop describes its offering as modular, so universities can add functionality as needs grow. It is available via web and API; pricing is on request.

OpenCurriculum is a curriculum planning tool for creating lessons and units with an editor and a library of teaching materials. Its library includes hundreds of lessons, strategies, activities, formative assessments, discussion questions, and worksheets contributed by teachers, researchers, and publishers. Plans can be viewed by course, unit, or lesson in planner, calendar, and semester or academic-term views. A standards picker supports national and state standards as well as school-created learning targets. Sharing permissions, department or PLC Groups, Libraries for organizing materials, and school-wide search support collaboration. The plan comparison lists Google Drive and Google Calendar integrations, along with reporting on standards, planning processes, vocabulary, learning objectives, and assessments. School leaders can use custom templates, learning outcomes, course catalogs, and activity templates. The free Teacher plan is for one user and up to 10 courses; the free Team plan supports up to 10 users and 50 courses. School costs $5 per user per month with a 10-user minimum and unlimited courses. Network pricing is custom. OpenCurriculum describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.