Planboard has been a popular choice among digitally-organised teachers for several years. ScholaPlan is newer and built from the ground up with AI at the centre. Both are designed to help teachers plan lessons and manage their teaching week — but they have different strengths, different pricing models, and suit different types of teachers.
Lesson planning approach
Planboard is a structured digital planner focused on curriculum mapping. It's designed to help teachers link lessons to curriculum standards, track coverage across the year, and share plans with heads of department or school leadership. The planning interface is clean and well-organised; the strength is in standards alignment and the institutional side of planning.
ScholaPlan is built around AI generation and the daily/weekly planning workflow. The central feature is AI-assisted lesson plan creation: you provide your class profile and lesson topic, the AI generates a structured plan, and you edit from there. The teaching diary and timetable integration mean that individual plans sit within the context of your whole timetable.
AI features
Planboard has added some AI features, but AI generation is not the core of the product — it's an addition to an existing planning platform.
ScholaPlan was designed with AI generation at the centre. The AI generates complete differentiated lesson plans including objectives, starter, main activity, differentiation notes, plenary, and homework. Class profile information (ability range, behaviour, SEND notes) shapes the output.
Timetable and diary
Both tools offer some form of timetable/calendar integration. ScholaPlan's teaching diary — a visual week view showing lessons organised by class and time slot — is central to the daily workflow. The ability to bump lessons forward, copy plans across classes, and push unit sequences to the timetable is a core differentiator.
Languages
Planboard is primarily an English-language product. ScholaPlan supports 32 languages, making it substantially more accessible to international school teachers and non-English-speaking teachers worldwide.
Pricing
Planboard is free for individual teachers; institutional pricing applies for school-wide deployment.
ScholaPlan is £15/year for individual teachers — roughly equivalent to a free tool in cost terms. The 30-day free trial allows full evaluation before any payment.
Which one suits you
Choose Planboard if your main need is standards alignment, curriculum mapping, and institutional sharing of plans — particularly if you're in a school that uses a specific curriculum framework that benefits from standards-linked planning.
Choose ScholaPlan if your main need is reducing daily planning time, using AI generation to speed up lesson creation, and managing your teaching diary in one place — particularly if you're an individual teacher focused on your own classroom workflow rather than school-wide reporting.
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