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OpenCurriculum
Sacramento, California, USA
What it is
OpenCurriculum is a web-based tool for planning curricula and creating lessons and units with an editor and a library of teaching materials. The library contains hundreds of lessons, strategies, activities, formative assessments, discussion questions, and worksheets from teachers, researchers, and publishers. Users can organize courses, units, and lessons in planner, calendar, and academic-term views, then align plans to national or state standards or school-created learning targets. Collaboration features include sharing permissions, department or PLC Groups, material Libraries, and school-wide search. The site 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, school-wide learning outcomes, course catalogs, and activity templates. The free Teacher plan supports one user and up to 10 courses; the free Team plan supports up to 10 users and 50 courses. The School plan costs $5 a month per user, requires at least 10 users, and includes unlimited courses. Network pricing is custom. OpenCurriculum describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
For and against
For
- Free Teacher and Team plans are listed.
- Plans can be aligned to national or state standards.
- Includes planner, calendar, and academic-term views.
- Google Drive and Google Calendar integrations are listed.
- Eligible schools can receive paid features at no cost.
Against
- Teacher plan is limited to 10 courses.
- Team plan is limited to 50 courses.
- School plan requires at least 10 users.
- Network pricing is custom.
The verdict
OpenCurriculum brings lesson planning, standards alignment, resource sharing, and reporting together for teachers and school teams. Check the course and user limits against your intended use before choosing a plan.
Who it suits
OpenCurriculum suits individual teachers and curriculum designers, school departments, schools and colleges, and larger districts or university clusters. Its planning and collaboration tools may also suit school leaders establishing shared outcomes and templates.
Plans and prices
Free
up to 3 courses · unlimited units per course · up to 3 libraries · fully featured planner
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
Teacher
1 user · 10-course limit · 200 MB storage
Read 15 Oct 2026 · w.opencurriculum.org
Team
up to 10 users · 50-course limit · 1.5 GB total storage
Read 15 Oct 2026 · w.opencurriculum.org
School
10–200 users · unlimited courses · unlimited libraries · 1 GB storage per user
Read 15 Oct 2026 · w.opencurriculum.org
Personal
unlimited courses and libraries · collaboration with free-tier users · 3-business-day email support
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
Bronze implementation
technology and materials review · implementation roadmap
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
District
unlimited users · unlimited courses and libraries · custom URL · branded interface
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
Silver implementation
Bronze review · API access for self-importing · import of 200 pages and 2,000 files
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
Basic training
3-hour virtual or dedicated administrator training · 2-day onsite summit for up to 60 participants
Read 15 Oct 2026 · opencurriculum.org
On the record
- Address
- The site lists a mailing address at 3740 Cedargate Way, Sacramento, CA 95834, USA.opencurriculum.org · read 29 Sep 2026
- Alignment insights
- Insights analyzes curriculum alignment and identifies gaps and opportunities.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- API access
- API access for self-importing is sold as part of the Silver implementation option.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- API roadmap
- A 2013 company post describes a planned developer API for OER objects, native content types, and external URLs, but gives no current public endpoint or SDK.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- The platform supports likes, replies, discussion threads, notifications, and shared curriculum communication.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company facts
- LinkedIn lists OpenCurriculum as a nonprofit founded in 2011, headquartered in Mountain View, California, with 2–10 employees.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Content licence
- OpenCurriculum’s terms generally license site content under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0, with separately licensed material excluded.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Curriculum insights
- The site says reporting features track standards, planning processes, vocabulary, learning objectives, and assessments across plans.opencurriculum.org · read 29 Sep 2026
- Curriculum planning
- The district product supports collaborative creation of curriculum plans and maps.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Eligibility offer
- The site says all paid features are free for schools serving students in conflict-, disaster-, or extreme-poverty-affected areas who would otherwise go unserved.opencurriculum.org · read 29 Sep 2026
- Exports
- Users can download plans as Word or PDF files and export curricula in an open format.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Flow documentation
- Flow’s repository includes setup steps, environment variables, Firebase collections, emulator commands, and a development server command.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Flow extensibility
- Flow supports LTI 1.3, embeddable iframe blocks, and click-based interactive events.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Flow licence status
- The Flow repository calls itself open source but says it has not selected an open-source licence.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Imports
- OpenCurriculum describes importing Word, PDF, Excel, ZIP, and CSV curriculum materials.opencurriculum.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent description
- A Carnegie Mellon recruiting PDF described OpenCurriculum as a GitHub-like system for communities to create and share K–12 curriculum materials.cs.cmu.edu · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent Flow description
- A Tools Competition report described OpenCurriculum Flow as a free, open-source learning-science experiment builder with vetted curricula, A/B testing, RCT support, code-free authoring, and shareable datasets.toolscompetition.org · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent technical scope
- The same Carnegie Mellon document described planned Python infrastructure with concurrency management, Git-like revision control, and user profiles and feeds.cs.cmu.edu · read 15 Oct 2026
