Make My Lesson vs TeachTools

Make My Lesson creates curriculum-aligned teaching packs, including lesson plans, presentations, classroom activities, and assessments. Plans can contain standards-aligned objectives, timings, differentiation, and Bloom’s balance. Its presentation stage uses lesson objectives to produce a slide deck calibrated to the lesson’s duration, with speaker notes. Activity materials include a student sheet and teacher answer key; assessment materials include a paper and mark scheme. The service lists 69 curriculum routes across Australia, the UK, Canada, International Baccalaureate, and US/AP, along with 16 teaching methods. Teachers can export PDFs and PowerPoints, download ZIP files, print, or share to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. Android, iOS, and web platforms are listed. The Free plan includes five generations and requires no card; the listed Monthly plan is $9.99 a month. The pricing note also says paid plans start at $15.99/mo. Unused paid credits expire at the end of the plan period. Lesson inputs are sent to US-based AI providers, which are instructed not to train on them; teachers are advised not to enter identifying student information.

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.