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"Great way to create consistent, organized plans"
Madi M. - Program Services DirectorMarch 29, 2021
STARTING PRICE
$25
per year
EASE OF USE
4.8/5
Based on Capterra user reviews
Electronic lesson plans allows users to access information from anywhere, share plans, create calendars, and integrate plans to website
Provider
PlanbookEdu
Located In
United States
Open API
Unverified
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Designed for businesses of all sizes, it is a cloud-based gradebook solution that helps with calendars, integrations and more.
Content Source: PlanbookEdu
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PlanbookEdu Reviews
Pros
I love paper plans, but I also love saving paper. PlanbookEdu is a great, easy to use software to create organized plans that follow a consistent schedule.
It's all about preferences between online planning and pencil-to-book planning. If you are someone who wants to plan digitally, this is a fantastic option.
Our overall experience has been nothing but positive. Planbook Edu allows for an easy transition from physical planbooks with a great deal of increased functionality.
The BEST lesson plan software you can use. I love that you can copy lessons if you want to reuse them, the fact that the standards are already connected, and the ease of use.
Cons
When I planned ahead and a snow day or other unexpected cancelled school day was announced, I had to erase and start over my plans.
When using Google Calendar, it bumps the rows out of wack. Deleting a series of days in a row is cumbersome (I copied lessons to the wrong class, then had to delete them... one at a time).
It was a little bit more difficult for me personally, as I plan regularly with my colleagues. It was difficult to plan ahead, and look back at past weeks, during meetings.
There were times where I wanted to print my plans to have a hard copy. The plans did not print well.
"Great way to create consistent, organized plans"
Overall: I love paper plans, but I also love saving paper! PlanbookEdu is a great, easy to use software to create organized plans that follow a consistent schedule.
Pros: I love that it is so easy to create and edit recurring schedules. All schools have different schedules, but the ability to edit one single period, a weekly period, or a daily period makes creating a schedule template so quick and easy. Changing one single occurrence is great, because I don't ruin any other blocks when just one thing needs to be different.
Cons: There aren't all that many cons. I think it all comes down to preference. Do you prefer writing plans down on paper? Do you prefer using a specific type of software or browser? Many features are hidden behind a premium subscription, but $25/year is a fair price.
"Versatile online lesson planning"
Overall: PlanbookEdu is a great tool for teachers at any level. My school does reimburse me for this yearly subscription but I'd still pay it myself just to continue this online tool. Whenever I need sub plans, I just add extra comments to the plans, add online link information, logins etc, print and they're ready to go for my substitute.
Pros: PlanbookEdu makes lesson planning a breeze. Once you set up your school year start and end date, along with number of planning periods in your schedule, PlanbookEdu produces a template. Simple features of copy & paste, click and drag, and repeat entries once, daily or weekly make setting up your planbook quick for those weekly specials classes (music, Spanish, computer..) and routine classes (math, reading...). It's easy to mark holidays, snow days or unexpected days off. I especially like being able to upload files that I can click and print for a day's lesson or include weblinks for songs, videos and other online lessons.
Cons: I've been very pleased with this software since I discovered PlanbookEdu many years ago. I was tired of writing my special classes and time periods over and over each week in the handwritten planbooks. When I planned ahead and a snow day or other unexpected cancelled school day was announced, I had to erase and start over my plans. One small note that I'd like to see PlanbookEdu add is more different colors. I use these to designate my weekly specials classes and events. The existing colors are look too similar.
"Great for technologically-savvy teachers!"
Overall: I used PlanbookEdu for one year. I consider myself a pretty technologically savvy person, and I wanted to see how it felt to have fully digital lesson plans. It was a little bit more difficult for me personally, as I plan regularly with my colleagues. It was difficult to plan ahead, and look back at past weeks, during meetings. For me personally, a regular paper planbook was more feasible, but I have many colleagues and acquaintances that swear by Planbook! It's all about preferences between online planning and pencil-to-book planning. If you are someone who wants to plan digitally, this is a fantastic option.
Pros: I really liked the ability to have this planbook available digitally. It was one less thing I was carrying home at night, and saved on paper. The cost of the software was very fair, cheaper than many paper-based options. It was easy to use the features to meet my needs.
Cons: There were times where I wanted to print my plans to have a hard copy. The plans did not print well. The more information you put in for lesson plans, the more paper was needed to print the plans. They became difficult to read because of this - the same day was spread across multiple pages.
"How to Make Your Administrators and Colleagues Happy while Staying Sane and Organized"
Overall: Planbook helps educators create complete, accurate, and visually pleasing lesson plans that can be shared with other teachers or submitted to one's Administration for oversight and approval.It is helpful for keeping a record of your past plans as well which makes it easier from year to year to start planning straight away, before the kids come back.
Pros: I started using Planbook over 6 years ago when I was a student teacher and have used it on and off (depending on my role for the year) ever since. First of all, it's affordable, which is a big deal for teachers who have to fund this kind of product on our own. Second, it helps teachers stay organized while making lesson plans, and allows for adjustments when schedules or caseloads change. It is easy to share, easy to retrieve, download, and print if needed, and because you can build your own templates, you are able to set up categories and reminders that prevent you from missing anything that your administrator might require.
Cons: It has improved over time, but some of the features can be a little clunky or old-school to relocate/duplicate/fill/edit. It was never serious enough to discourage me from using it, however.
"Pretty Good"
Overall: Overall Planbook does the job pretty well. For years I had used my paper planner which had the days going down the side. It took me a while to get used to the calendar going across the top instead. It would be nice if they offered an option to go either way.
Pros: Online accessibility across platforms, Colors, Flexibility to set design (colors, fonts, font size, display layout, sorting), It's sharing options, and Google Calendar integration. Share lessons with other teachers.
Cons: When using Google Calendar, it bumps the rows out of wack. Deleting a series of days in a row is cumbersome (I copied lessons to the wrong class, then had to delete them... one at a time).
