Paste a short candidate list. The Promptbook helps you see meaningful tradeoffs, unknowns, and what is worth checking yourself without turning the decision into a giant matrix.
Evidence first. Judgment stays human.
You do not need to compare every feature of every resource. Start with two to four realistic options and focus on differences that could actually affect your course.
The candidate list is the only required field. Add course context only when it should affect the comparison.
Skip anything that does not matter to this decision.
Privacy: Shared course details stay in your browser. By default they last only for this browser session so you can move between Promptbook tasks without retyping them. Use Remember only on a device you control, and do not paste private student information.
Use this when several options seem plausible and you want to know what actually distinguishes them before spending more review time.
Ignore minor similarities and surface only the differences, tradeoffs, and unknowns most likely to matter.
Use this when the options are close and you need to see where the evidence is strong, weak, or still missing.
Use this when the options may be academically workable but differ in logins, navigation, reading load, setup, maintenance, or the amount of support you would have to create.
Focus on what students and faculty would actually have to manage.
Use this when a choice could create recurring work each term or depend on fragile access conditions.
Use this when one resource is simpler but a small combination might cover the course better.
Look at coherence, gaps, student navigation, and faculty work without assuming either model is better.
Use this when the choice affects several parts of the course and you need a clearer picture of what each model would require.
A useful comparison should make the next human check clearer, not make the table bigger. Keep unknowns visible, verify important claims at the source, and stop comparing once you know what you need to inspect next.
When you are down to one serious candidate, move to Evaluate OER for closer review.
