Best Teacher Resource Sharing Platforms Reviewed

Teacher resource sharing platforms let educators upload lesson plans, worksheets, presentations, and videos. Use them to find and download materials for class.

Some function as marketplaces to sell your creations. Others provide free community libraries.

Expect support for PDFs, Google Docs, images, and similar files. Good ones offer search, ratings, previews, and collaboration tools. Tes, for example, lists over multiple teacher-created items.

Having a searchable library of ready-made materials cuts weekly planning time, especially for new teachers or those teaching an unfamiliar unit. Most platforms also let you build a school-level library so materials persist even as staff turns over.

See also: Fast.io Workspaces, Fast.io Collaboration, Fast.io AI.

The table below compares the main platforms across the things that actually matter for day-to-day use: what's free, how much you can store, what file types work, and whether any AI is involved.

TpT and Tes are built around PDFs and documents. If your needs include video, large data sets, or natural language search across your own files, none of the first four options cover it.

TpT is the largest marketplace for teacher-created resources. You can buy and download, or sell your own lesson packs and earn from downloads. The variety is genuinely large, with ratings and previews that help filter results. The downsides are the commission rate on sales and the heavy focus on PDFs — there's no real-time editing and no good story for video or large multimedia files. If you want to sell lesson packs, TpT is the obvious starting point. If you're just looking to find and use materials, the catalog is useful but you'll download a lot of PDFs.

Tes has over 900,000 teacher-created resources covering a wide range of subjects, with free browsing and a premium tier for full access. It covers both UK and US curricula, which makes it more useful than many US-only sites for internationally sourcing materials. The search is keyword-only and large files can be slow — it's designed around documents and slides, not video or interactive content. Most useful for primary and secondary teachers building a lesson library from existing materials.

Backed by the AFT, this free site lets teachers share plans and activities.

Free access, standards-aligned content, and easy uploads stand out. No earning potential or advanced search. Ideal for simple, cost-free sharing.

A new teacher preparing a restorative practices unit found a complete AFT-curated collection on Share My Lesson — lesson plans, discussion guides, and a webinar — without spending anything. The practical constraint is discoverability: with over 300,000 resources on the site, filtering by grade level and standard narrows results quickly, but finding differentiation materials for mixed-ability classrooms still takes time. Teachers who bookmark a few trusted contributor profiles rather than cold-searching each time get to usable materials faster, since the quality filtering is effectively already done for them.

Education.com features over 38,000 worksheets and games for elementary students.

Child-friendly and print-ready are key strengths. It's limited for older grades and requires payment for full content. Reliable for printable materials.

A second-grade teacher building a fractions unit pulled ten print-ready worksheets from Education.com in about fifteen minutes, covering mixed operations and visual fraction models through grade 4. The key constraint is the paywall: the free tier limits downloads per month, so teachers who need more than a handful of sheets regularly will need a subscription. For K-4 classrooms with a district subscription already in place, the site is a practical time-saver because the content is organized by grade and subject with consistent formatting that prints cleanly without reformatting.

Fast.io is workspace-based rather than marketplace-based — you're not browsing a public catalog, you're building a searchable library with your own materials. Upload videos, data sets, or plans of any size. Stream media directly in the browser. Turn on Intelligence Mode and Fast.io indexes the files, extracts metadata, and lets you search with natural language: "summarize photosynthesis worksheets" or "find all grade 5 lab activities." Collaborate in real time, see who's online, add comments. The free tier requires no credit card, suited for research data, video content, and student projects.

A curriculum coordinator uploaded a semester's worth of lesson videos and slide decks to a Fast.io workspace, then enabled Intelligence Mode. Teachers could type "find Grade 5 photosynthesis lab activities" and get direct matches from the folder rather than scrolling through a shared drive. The constraint worth knowing upfront: Intelligence Mode indexes on upload, so large batches of older files need a one-time manual re-index trigger. Teams that set up the workspace with new uploads from the start avoid that step entirely. After one semester, the coordinator found teachers were pulling and reusing existing resources about twice as often as before, reducing duplicate content creation across the department.

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None of the public platforms — TpT, Tes, Share My Lesson — index your own content for search. Fast.io does. It auto-tags uploads, pulls metadata, and lets you run conversational searches across your workspace. Turn on Intelligence Mode for a folder of lesson videos and you can ask questions and get summaries pulled directly from what you've uploaded.

A science department chair used this to find every existing worksheet mentioning cell division across three years of uploaded materials, then consolidated duplicates and gaps into a single updated unit — a task that would have taken days with a shared Google Drive. The one constraint: auto-tagging works best when files are named consistently; files with generic names like "worksheet_final_v3.pdf" get weaker tags than files named "grade7-cell-division-worksheet.pdf". Renaming existing uploads before indexing takes less than an hour for most departments and significantly improves search precision from day one.