Brisk Teaching

Most teachers who've tried AI started with ChatGPT: open a new tab, paste in a reading passage, type a prompt, copy the output back into Google Docs or Slides, then fix the formatting. Brisk Teaching skips the tab-switching. It's a browser extension that sits on top of whatever you're already looking at, whether that's a Google Doc, a PDF, a YouTube video or a random article, and turns it into a quiz, a rubric, a leveled reading or a set of student comments without you leaving the page. Brisk calls itself an "AI layer for every tool, website, and resource," and that's the real difference from a general chatbot. You don't write prompts from scratch. You pick a tool and Brisk works from the content in front of you.

The toolkit is wide. Brisk advertises 30+ tools, including a quiz generator, presentation maker that builds Google Slides from "any idea, article, website, or video," a rubric generator, lesson plan generator and an inquiry worksheet builder. Feedback is the standout: batch feedback and "Glow & Grow" comments are pitched as personalized, written "in your voice, at your standard," with the line "Essay 100 is just as good as essay 1." There's also Inspect Writing for looking at how students revised their work, a Change Level tool covering 50+ languages, and Brisk Boost, a student-facing AI with 14 activity types. It works with both Google and Microsoft setups.

Brisk is clearly built to get past district gatekeepers. It touts a 95% Common Sense Privacy rating, ESSA Tier 3 evidence, an IT approval packet you can request, and adoption in 10,000+ districts, with a claim that 1 in 3 US teachers use it. That matters if you've watched a good tool get blocked by IT. The free tier gets you started, and paid plans start at $9/mo, with school and district plans handled through a sales call. The catch is that it's tightly focused on K-12, and the public pages lean hard on stats and say little about which models run underneath or how the new "Brisk Intelligence" actually learns your curriculum.