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Common Planner
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
What it is
Common Planner is a web-based collaborative lesson planner for teachers, schools, and districts. Teachers can create lesson and unit plans, organize classes, and reuse planbooks and lessons across school years. They can find standards, add them to units, and track which have been taught. Shared planbooks support co-planning, sharing plans with administrators, and borrowing plans from colleagues. School leaders can review planning status, standards coverage, and pacing, then comment directly on lesson plans. The school product page describes AI-assisted insights for spotting missing standards, pacing issues, or instructional gaps. Basic for Teachers is free forever and includes an AI-powered lesson assistant, daily, weekly, and monthly planning, up to 50 Google Classroom lesson posts, and file uploads from a computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, or Office 365. Pro for Teachers is listed at $5.59 a month and includes unit planning, automatic standards tracking, unlimited Google Classroom posts, and up to five collaborators. The Schools plan includes staff training and ongoing support. There is no Common Planner app, but the service works in a browser on tablets and smartphones.
For and against
For
- Basic for Teachers is free forever.
- Supports shared planning and administrator comments.
- Tracks standards taught across units.
- Works in mobile and desktop browsers.
- Schools plan includes training and ongoing support.
Against
- There is no Common Planner app.
- Basic limits Google Classroom posts to 50 lessons.
- Pro is listed at $5.59 a month.
The verdict
Common Planner combines teacher planning with collaboration and school-level oversight, including standards tracking and AI-assisted insights on the school product page. Its free tier has a Google Classroom posting limit, while Pro is listed at $5.59 a month.
Who it suits
Common Planner suits individual teachers who want to organize and reuse plans, as well as school and district teams coordinating standards coverage and instructional oversight. School leaders can use it to review planning status and comment on lesson plans.
Plans and prices
Basic for Teachers
AI lesson assistant · daily/weekly/monthly planning · standards search · 50 Google Classroom posts
Read 15 Oct 2026 · commonplanner.com
Pro for Teachers (monthly)
2x Basic AI usage · unlimited Google Classroom posts · unit planning · automatic standards tracking
Read 15 Oct 2026 · commonplanner.com
Pro for Teachers (annual)
2x Basic AI usage · unlimited Google Classroom posts · unit planning · automatic standards tracking
Read 15 Oct 2026 · commonplanner.com
Pro for Teachers
2x the AI usage of Basic · unlimited Google Classroom posts · unit planning · automatic standards tracking
Read 29 Sep 2026 · commonplanner.com
Cc for Schools
Everything in Pro · school planbooks · teams · school-wide templates
Read 15 Oct 2026 · commonplanner.com
On the record
- Account age restriction
- Account registration is not authorized for people under 13, while teacher-shared pages may be viewed by students of any age as directed by a school.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI features
- The school product page describes AI-assisted insights for identifying missing standards, pacing issues, or instructional gaps.commonplanner.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- AI lesson assistant
- The product includes an AI-powered lesson planning assistant.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API development
- The repository documents Ruby, MongoDB, Foreman/Forego and Docker-based local setup and deployment.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API license
- The public Common Standards Project API repository is marked Apache-2.0 licensed.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API terms
- The Terms of Service state that developers using the Common Curriculum API are subject to separate API Terms.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Backward planning
- The planner supports starting from goals and assessments to align class periods.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Billing limit
- The Pro individual plan requires a credit card and is unavailable for school-wide multi-staff purchasing.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Bump lessons
- A bump function shifts plans forward while preserving pacing.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Class websites
- Pro users can publish lessons to an auto-updating class website for students and parents.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Teachers can co-plan in a shared planbook, share plans with administrators, and borrow plans from other teachers.commonplanner.com · read 29 Sep 2026
- Company legal name
- The subscriber agreement identifies the maker as Common Curriculum, Inc., a Delaware corporation.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company rename
- LinkedIn says Common Curriculum changed its product name to Common Planner because the old name was confusing and did not describe a curriculum provider.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company size and founding
- LinkedIn lists Common Planner as a 2–10 employee educational company headquartered in Baltimore and founded in 2011.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The company provides a Student Data Privacy Notice covering COPPA, FERPA and state student-privacy-law compliance for schools and districts.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Contract terms
- Paid subscriptions auto-renew by default, fees are generally non-refundable, and premium features stop when the subscription ends.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The help center has collections for setup videos, planbooks/calendars, lesson-planning tools, sharing/collaboration and subscriptions/policies.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Drag and drop
- Lessons can be rearranged across days, weeks and classes by drag and drop.commonplanner.com · read 15 Oct 2026
