Forethought Reviews & Product Details

I think from an administrator standpoint, it must be nice to set up the template for an entire campus or district to use for lesson plans and to be able to access everyone's lesson plans from one place. I also really appreciate the ability to pull up the standards and add them to the lesson plan without having to search them separately and type them out. I can also easily see which standards I have covered in previous lesson plans and which ones I haven't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am not a core subject teacher, and I actually teach music. I am also diagnosed with ADHD, and have strategies that help me to plan when it comes to lesson plans, as well as a different structure for my lesson plans than the rest of the teachers. I wish the lesson plan editing was a little more user friendly and customizable, and I wish there were more options for printing as well. I would like to be able to put boxes intended for me to write notes and announcements when I print my lesson plans- but you cannot add shapes. I also would like to be able to have columns so I could put on one side what piece of music I am working on and on the other side I can put what the goals/teaching points/TEKS related to that piece we would cover that day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it's a central hub for information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now, there's nothing that I dislike about Forethought Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can use Forethought to see all of my classes. I like that the state standards are easily imported into my lessons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is cluttered and clunky. The formatting is not intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that lesson plans can be shared among other teachers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that if a mistake is make (ex: copying an entry on a wrong day) it's extremely hard to delete or correct the problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One program which addresses multiple needs. We used this program to document for SPED 504 lesson plans and review test dats Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing I can suggest at this time to improve the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having the ability to share lesson plans Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not being able to remove shared users who've left the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that you can easily share plans between coworkers. It's very simple to set up and view each other's plans. I also like that you can add a lesson plan template depending on what your school uses and it's automatically there ready to go. I also really like that your guides, standards, and other district resources are on the tool bar and easily accessible. If your district allows, you can easily click on instructional guides and paste those into the lesson planner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it could be more collaborative. I work with a team teacher and it would be nice to be able to have the same plan and edit it on both of our accounts. You can set up another planner and do it that way, but then you have to paste it into your own account. I think it is a little redundant. It can also be a little slow and finicky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I liked the main idea of Forethought. Being able to see all my classes' lessons on one screen was helpful, and there was a feature for team-planning. If you wanted to do your lesson in Word, you could attach it to your lesson. Many class subjects had their state standards ready to click and input into each lesson. Administrators could leave feedback directly in the lessons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It felt like a burden to try to copy plans from the team planner to my planner, or from my planner to the team planner, or from one day to another. Also, the state standards were supposedly easy to click and place in the lessons, but for my subject and grade level, they were the old standards from 10 years ago, with no way to update them. Our campus and district administrators were unable to view and had trouble seeing lessons. It became such a problem and took up so much of the technologists and principals time, we were asked to abandon it. We still have access to it, we are still allowed to use it, but we are not submitting lesson plans through Forethought any longer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that my TEKS automatically populate for my classes so it is a point and click system to get the TEKS on my plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike how difficult it is to do a unit plan for multiple days. I teach with project based learning and it is not conducive to my planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Forethought is great for me to get my lesson plans in place and posted each week for classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some aspects of editing forethought lesson plans could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.