Planbookedu.com Review

I mentioned in an earlier blog post that I have been working a lot this summer in order to get ready for the school year. This school year is going to be a busy one for me. I am starting my 5th year and where normally one would be less busy, I am the opposite. I am starting my masters degree and this year I am also grade level team lead. With the responsibility of being team lead, I need to be organized so I know how to answer questions any other second grade teachers may need. I am also responsible for writing the grade level lesson plans. In the past when I wrote lesson plans I always had them in word documents. Where this was nice and customizable, it wasn't very efficient for me. I would have to save each week as a different file and if I was working on a lesson at home, I would forget that I had it saved on my work computer or vice-versa. I was tired of loosing lesson plans. I have also tried the physical plan book, but I found that these were not customizable at all. I would run out of room to write certain things and when I had a reoccurring event, like lunch or specials, I would have to write it in every day. For the past 4 years, lesson planning for me was a nightmare, that was until someone at work told us about planbookedu.com

Planbookedu is on online lesson plan book.

I have been using this plan book all summer in order to get ready for the school year. I love the features that it has to offer. For only $25 a year, I think it is well worth it.

Features (Pros):

• You can create multiple plan books under one account.
• Standards can be entered into your plans easily.
• You can bump, copy, or move lesson plans.
• Easy to customize
• You will never loose your plan book or have it saved on a different computer. It is online and is accessible from any computer with an internet connection.
• You can also save your completed lesson plan as a PDF. That way you can either save it to your computer or even print it out.
• Upload files to your plans that way you will never misplace any worksheet that goes with your lesson.

Cons:

• $25 a year (or free without some of the features)
• Difficult to print out easily

I have even made a video to walk through how to set up your first plan book.


 I hope you found this helpful. I know that this will save me a lot of time this year and in years to come.