Brisk is an AI assistant designed to help teachers save time and offer more bespoke lessons to students.
More and more AI tools are flooding the market with a focus on helping teachers or, in many cases, replacing their efforts. That's where this one stands out as it aims at supporting teacher efforts, rather than taking away their part.
Since Brisk is easy to setup and get started, and comes with a lot of support, it's suitable for pretty much any teacher who may want to try out AI. The company claims it can save more than 10 hours per week in teacher prep and marking time, so it could be worth a try.
What is Brisk?
Brisk is an AI teaching assistant tool that's designed to save teacher prep, marking, and general assessment time with useful automations.
The idea here is to take what a teacher would normally do, and automate all the administrative parts to work smarter not harder. As the company says: "The pressure to do more with less can be exhausting." And that's what it aims to alleviate.
As such, this is "trusted" by more than 20,000 districts, and is made by teachers for teachers, so it's specifically targeting tasks known to be tedious and, perhaps dreaded, by many educators.
Since this is all about being simple to use, and install, it should be something that most teachers can take advantage of right away. And with plenty of support it's a choice how deep you want to go into the rich offerings available here.
How does Brisk work?
Brisk is a Google Chrome extension, so it's quick and easy to install, for free, on your browser. As such this works on pretty much any laptop or desktop with Chrome installed -- and is ideally suited to Chromebooks.
Once installed, teachers can begin to use the AI to create presentations, quizzes, lesson plans, rubrics, interventions, etc., with more than 30 tools available.
Usefully, this can be setup to offer direct feedback to student submissions, including comments right into Google Docs in the paid version. By spending some time upfront selecting how you want the tool to work, it can save time later as the AI can do the assessments and feedback for you, in your style.
It's also possible to adjust levels to suit the age or abilities of individuals, making this a helpful way to support differentiated learning without taking additional time.
What are the best Brisk features?
Brisk has a great number of helpful tools and one that stands out is the interactivity it can offer. Using Youtube videos or online images and websites, you can setup interactive activities that allow students to learn and engage with materials that might otherwise just be made to watch or read.
Translation is another area in which this tool excels, allowing you to take text and have it translated to more than 30 different languages automatically. You can also adjust reading levels, so if you have a Google Doc, for example, you can change that to suit everyone in the class to meet them where they are for the right level of challenge.
Using rubrics, it's possible to have the AI help students grow based on their progress. This can support differentiated learning and offer the next steps after work is submitted so that they can continue to learn at a rate that's suitable for them.
Go premium and you get powerful features such as targeted learning, through which direct comments can be made into Google Docs that students submit. A selection of tools are also available to create standards-aligned lesson plans with ease.
How much does Brisk cost?
Brisk is free to download and use but there is also the option to pay for a premium version that offers more complex features.
The Free version of Brisk gets you the standard AI LLM, more than 23 tools to create, three feedback styles, the inspect writing tool, the text leveler tool, and 30+ languages supported.
Go for Educator Pro, at $99.99/year, and you get the turbo AI LLM, another feedback style, AI detection in the inspect writing tool, and slides upgrades.
The Schools & Districts version is available at a quote price, and that adds 10 more create tools, academic standards, admin dashboard at the district level, custom data privacy agreement, professional development, and dedicated customer support, plus advanced student insights and feedback.
Brisk best tips and tricks
Use the resources
Videos for teachers are there to help and they really work so put the time in to learn just how many ways this tool can serve you better.
Try for free
Use the free version to see how this could work for you before deciding if the premium features are worth the investment for your way of working.
Start here
The AI generated text can be a helpful starting point, even looking at its drawbacks as part of the learning experience as you go from there.
