Planboard vs SchEDU

Planboard is Chalk’s lesson-planning tool for teachers building and organizing units and lessons for students. Teachers can create, edit, and share lesson plans, then arrange lessons, subjects, and semesters in a timetable. Plans can include curriculum standards, photos, and files. The service is available on the web, iOS, and Android, and its mobile app syncs with the web version. The free Planboard plan costs nothing. Chalk Gold adds features such as custom colors, lesson search, and Google Classroom integration. Gold users and teachers at schools subscribed to Instruction Solution can also export timetables to Google Calendar and attach Google Drive files; free users cannot share lessons to Google Classroom unless their school has that subscription. Chalk Teams is for teaching groups of 2–10 and includes Gold features and shared lesson collaboration. Public lesson links can make lessons and attachments available for the configured time frame. Chalk says users can view and export their data, request account and data deletion, and download lesson plans.

SchEDU is a planning tool for teachers that turns subjects and class times into a term schedule and classroom activities. It spaces quizzes, orders performance tasks and exams, and accounts for review buffers and holidays. From lesson content, it can draft quizzes, written work, performance tasks and exams. Teachers can track each section separately, including its pace, plan status and completion. Existing PDFs and photos can supply text for lessons and activities, and uploaded templates let generated documents follow a school format. Activities and exams export as Word or PDF. SchEDU supports DepEd school-year calendars and college prelim-midterm-final terms; department heads can see teachers’ plans and progress in one dashboard. The Free plan includes 2 lesson plans for life, 2 subjects, 1 automated activity or exam per day and full-term auto-planning. Pro is $4.99 a month; Max is $9.99 a month. SchEDU says its Android soft launch is planned for the 2026-2027 school year; plan upgrades are available on the web.