Kuali Curriculum Management vs OpenCurriculum

Kuali Curriculum Management helps higher education institutions handle curriculum proposals, reviews, approvals, and academic changes. Institutions can configure forms for courses, programs, policies, and other changes, then route submissions to faculty, committees, and academic leaders according to their approval structures. The system tracks proposals, approvals, bottlenecks, and outstanding work. Reviewers can see prerequisites, corequisites, and program relationships when assessing a proposed change. Embedded AI can create or modify workflows, change forms or approval processes, refine proposal content, and identify stalled proposals through natural-language prompts. Approved curriculum can flow into Kuali Catalog, while approved course information can connect with Kuali Syllabus Management. Kuali describes its platform as API-first, with REST and GraphQL connections for campus systems. It says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access roles and permissions are configurable. The product is listed for web and API. It is paid, but no numeric price, free plan, or free trial is stated; institutions are invited to schedule a demo.

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.