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Lesson Maker Pro
What it is
Lesson Maker Pro is a web app for teachers to plan lessons, organize their week, and create classroom materials. Its drag-and-drop weekly planner lets teachers place lessons into a bell schedule and swap days. The Teaching Assistant can brainstorm, draft lesson plans, suggest activities, and discuss teaching questions. Lesson plans can align with Common Core, NGSS, and state standards from a catalog of more than 455,000 standards. The app generates worksheets, handouts, assessments, student notes, teacher guides, graphic organizers, infographics, card sheets, and presentations. Materials can be downloaded as PDF, DOCX, or PPTX, or exported to Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Classroom. Free accounts include sub plans that can be printed or shared through a private link. Student accounts, rosters, and student data are not needed; Digital Experiences also require no student accounts, installs, or app, and their shared links work for two weeks. The free plan includes five generated lessons and one unit plan per month, ten standalone materials monthly, and 25 Teaching Assistant messages monthly. Pro costs $7.99/user/mo when billed annually.
For and against
For
- Planner supports drag-and-drop lesson scheduling
- Aligns plans with Common Core, NGSS, and state standards
- Exports materials to common file formats and Google tools
- Free accounts include printable or shareable sub plans
- Does not require student accounts or rosters
Against
- Free plan limits lessons, materials, and assistant messages
- Pro is billed annually at $7.99/user/mo
- Digital Experience links work for two weeks
The verdict
Lesson Maker Pro combines lesson planning, standards alignment, and material generation in a web app. The free plan has monthly generation limits, while Pro is listed with annual billing.
Who it suits
Lesson Maker Pro suits teachers who want a weekly planning board and tools for generating lesson plans and classroom materials. It may also suit teachers who prefer not to manage student accounts or rosters.
Plans and prices
Free
5 generated lessons + 1 unit plan/month · 10 standalone materials/month · 25 Teaching Assistant messages/month
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lessonmakerpro.com
Pro
Unlimited generated lessons · 5 unit plans/month · unlimited standalone materials · unlimited Teaching Assistant messages
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lessonmakerpro.com
Schools
Pro for every teacher · centralized seat management · invoice or purchase-order billing · onboarding support
Read 15 Oct 2026 · lessonmakerpro.com
On the record
- Activity library
- The Activity Library contains 100 customizable classroom activities.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Adaptations
- Saved or uploaded resources can be adapted for learner support, reading level, multilingual use or extension work.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI lesson planner
- The Quick Lesson form turns a topic, grade and class period into a standards-aligned lesson plan.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- AI providers
- Generation uses OpenAI with Anthropic as fallback; the company says provider training on Lesson Maker Pro content is disabled or excluded by default.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- API and SDK
- The security page mentions centrally authenticated protected API routes but gives no public API, SDK or developer documentation.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Data retention
- Student session records are deleted after 14 days, anonymous completion records after 12 months, and account deletion is handled by request.lessonmakerpro.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Digital experiences
- Lessons can become self-paced student activities with maps, levels, interactive checks, XP, streaks and a final boss battle.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Export integrations
- Materials can be downloaded as PDF, DOCX, or PPTX, or exported to Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Classroom.lessonmakerpro.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Founder background
- High Tech High Graduate School of Education credits Matt Gottilla on a 2021 sixth-grade adaptive-gaming project.hthgse.edu · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent coverage
- USA News reported on November 27, 2025 that Matt Gottilla founded the AI lesson-planning platform after seeing teachers struggle with detailed planning and materials.usanews.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent time claim
- USA News reported the founder's claim that Lesson Maker Pro can reduce lesson-planning time by more than 95 percent.usanews.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Official subprocessors and export descriptions list Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Forms and Classroom integrations.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Lesson chat
- Each lesson includes chat-based editing whose changes appear directly in the plan.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: AI accuracy
- AIToolsCapital warns that generated content still needs teacher review for accuracy and standards alignment.aitoolscapital.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: differentiation
- AIToolsCapital says deep differentiation and IEP-specific work generally require manual effort.aitoolscapital.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Maker scale
- The contact page describes Lesson Maker Pro as a small operation whose support messages go directly to the founder.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Materials
- It generates worksheets, handouts, assessments, student notes, teacher guides, graphic organizers, infographics, card sheets, and presentations.lessonmakerpro.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Materials generator
- The product generates worksheets, handouts, assessments, student notes, teacher guides, graphic organizers, infographics, card sheets and presentations.lessonmakerpro.com · read 15 Oct 2026
