OpenCurriculum review
A broad curriculum planner with a free entry point and low-cost school pricing.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
OpenCurriculum is a web-based curriculum planning and mapping platform for K–12 teachers, schools, and districts. It brings course, unit, and lesson planning together with standards alignment, pacing views, instructional-resource libraries, collaboration, permissions, groups, and threaded feedback. Schools can organize curriculum materials with tagging and search, create custom templates, import Word, PDF, Excel, ZIP, and CSV files, and download plans as PDF or Word documents. Its broad planning scope makes it a fit for schools that want one workspace for curriculum design, alignment, resource organization, and collaboration.
Pricing is structured to support individual and institutional use. The Free plan costs $0 per month and includes a fully featured planner. Personal costs $15 per month and adds unlimited courses and libraries, collaboration with free-tier users, and three-business-day email support. School costs $5 per user per month and includes unlimited courses and libraries, plus three-business-day email and working-hours phone support. District costs $1,250 per month and adds unlimited users, rich analytics with Insights, a custom URL, and a branded interface. The paid tiers make the most sense when schools need broader collaboration, larger curriculum libraries, support access, or district-level administration.
The platform also connects curriculum planning with day-to-day school workflows through Google Drive and Google Calendar integrations, along with Dropbox and learning management system integrations. Alignment insights and analytics provide a way to review curriculum coverage, while planner, calendar, and academic-term views support different planning approaches. The main tradeoff is focus: teams needing a web-based curriculum system with broad planning and standards features should find a strong fit, while organizations requiring a desktop-first workflow or district capabilities without the $1,250 monthly tier should consider alternatives.
OpenCurriculum pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free plan includes a fully featured planner
- Maps courses, units, lessons, and standards in one workspace
- Imports common curriculum files and exports plans to PDF or Word
- Where it doesn't
- Access is web-based
- Personal and School support has a three-business-day response window
- District pricing starts at $1,250 per month
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