Intertwined has a free plan, a personal subscription called Intertwined Solo, and three school plans: Intertwined Core, Intertwined Plus and Intertwined Pro. This article lists exactly what each one includes, who can buy which, and how your students fit in, so you can tell at a glance whether something you want is already yours, something you can add yourself, or something your school would need to buy.
How plans work
Each teacher has a plan. Every teacher account starts on Free. Your current plan is named on My profile (click your name at the bottom of the sidebar).
Plans build on each other. Each plan includes everything in the one before it: Free, then Solo, then Core, Plus and Pro.
Students use their teacher's plan. Students never have a plan of their own and are never asked to pay. A student in classes with different teachers gets the most generous plan among those teachers.
Each teacher sees their own plan. In a class you share with a co-teacher, each of you sees the features your own plan includes.
Students never see plans or prices. If something isn't included, a student is only told it isn't in their class right now and to ask you.
Free
Free is a complete way to teach with Intertwined. It focuses on the work itself and on who has done it. On every plan, including Free, you get:
The courses in the Course Library, including the OpenStax textbooks, with lessons and section quizzes for your students (see OpenStax textbooks in Intertwined).
Classrooms, class codes and join links, and student logins you create.
Completion tracking: who has started, which lessons and quizzes each student has finished, and how far each class has come, on your Dashboard and in each class.
Creating and tracking assignments inside each classroom.
Rankings by course completion.
The Teaching Toolkit and Prerequisites.
The Arcade, for you and your students.
Calculators, the glossary and financial news on your students' Resources page.
Twine Town, with the Personal Finance Core Foundations (3e) course.
Course completion certificates.
The Integrity page and quiz protections.
What Free leaves out: quiz scores, accuracy and other performance figures appear blurred, and the Planner, Gradebook, Reports, Reteach, the sidebar Assignments page, Manage Access, the simulators and co-instructors are locked.
Intertwined Solo
Solo is for one teacher and is paid by you with a card. It costs $99 a year (shown on the plans page as $8.25 a month, billed annually) or $12.99 a month billed monthly. The first time you subscribe you get a 14-day free trial. Solo adds:
Student performance: quiz scores, per-question results, mastery, activity, the charts on each class's Overview and each student's page, and flags for low scores and students who have gone quiet.
Planner: lay your course out on a calendar and copy a plan to another class.
Assignments in the sidebar's Insights group: every assignment across every class on one calendar, with who's late and who hasn't started, and due dates you can drag to reschedule. (Creating and tracking assignments inside each classroom, under Coursework > Assignments, is free on every plan.)
Gradebook: every student against every lesson and quiz in one grid.
Reports: build, print and export reports on a class or a student.
Reteach: the sections each class missed most, and who missed them.
Manage Access: open a course one unit or section at a time.
Finn AI for your students.
A 14-day trial of each simulator, started whenever you're ready, once per simulator (see Trying a simulator free with a 14-day trial).
Solo doesn't include the simulators beyond those trials, or co-instructors. Those come only with school plans, which can't be bought with a personal card. See Subscribing to Intertwined Solo and managing your subscription.
School plans: Core, Plus and Pro
School plans are bought by a school or district for its teachers, by quote and invoice. Every school plan includes everything in Solo. On top of that:
Intertwined Core adds the Personal Budget Simulator, the Economy Simulator, and co-instructors (sharing a classroom with another teacher from the class's Instructors settings).
Intertwined Plus adds the Investing Simulator to everything in Core.
Intertwined Pro adds the Startup Simulator and the Business Simulator to everything in Plus.
Teachers covered by a school plan never pay anything themselves. Their plans page says "Your school covers Intertwined", and their profile says who covers them. To find out how coverage reaches your account, or to ask about a plan for your school, see School and district licenses: how coverage works or request a quote.
Quick reference
The lowest plan that includes each feature:
Free (every plan): courses including OpenStax textbooks, classrooms and rosters, completion tracking, creating and tracking assignments inside a class (Coursework > Assignments), rankings by completion, Teaching Toolkit, Prerequisites, Arcade, student Resources, Twine Town, certificates, Integrity.
Intertwined Solo: student performance (scores and analytics), Planner, the cross-class Assignments page in Insights, Gradebook, Reports, Reteach, Manage Access, Finn AI for students, simulator trials.
Intertwined Core: Personal Budget Simulator, Economy Simulator, co-instructors.
Intertwined Plus: Investing Simulator.
Intertwined Pro: Startup Simulator, Business Simulator.
Who can buy what
Intertwined Solo is the only plan you can buy yourself, from the plans page (My profile > See plans). It's billed to your card.
School plans are sold to schools and districts by quote, invoice and purchase order. A teacher can't put one on a personal card. If you'd like one, use Talk to us about your school on the plans page or Ask about it for your school on a locked simulator, both of which open our quote request page. We're happy to help you make the case to your school.
If your school already covers you, there's nothing for you to buy. If you reach something your school's plan doesn't include, you'll see "Your school's plan doesn't include this one. Your district administrator can add it."
Common questions
Can I buy just one simulator for myself?
No. Simulators come with school plans only. With Intertwined Solo you can try each simulator free for 14 days, which is usually enough to teach a unit with it and show your school what it does.
My co-teacher's school pays for Intertwined. Does that cover me?
Not automatically. Each teacher's plan comes from their own account: their subscription, or a school plan that covers them. Your shared students do get the most generous plan among their teachers. If you teach at the same school, see School and district licenses: how coverage works; you may be covered too once your profile is linked to your school.
What happens to my classes if my plan ends?
Nothing is deleted. Your classes, students, courses and their progress stay. Features your new plan doesn't include lock again and come back if you upgrade. If you used Manage Access, your settings are kept but stop applying, so students can open the whole course until a plan that includes it returns.
Do my students ever see what plan I'm on?
No. Students never see plan names, prices or upgrade prompts. When something isn't included, they see a neutral message telling them to ask their teacher.
How do I check which plan I'm on?
Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar. The plan row on My profile names your plan and shows either who covers it, your renewal date, or an upgrade note on Free.