What is Brisk Teaching?
Brisk Teaching is an AI tools for educators platform that works inside Google and Microsoft tools teachers already use. It covers lesson planning, student feedback, quiz creation, presentations, and reading level adjustments. The platform targets K-12 teachers, school administrators, and district-level teams managing instruction at scale. AI tools for educators run directly inside Google Docs, Google Classroom, Microsoft Word, YouTube, PDFs, and online textbooks through a browser extension. A dedicated web app gives access to batch processing, chat support, and creation history.
Features & Benefits
- Lesson Plan Generator: generate structured lesson plans from any online article, video, PDF, or curriculum source.
- Presentation Maker: build editable Google Slides or PowerPoint decks from web content, videos, or uploaded files.
- Quiz Maker: create quizzes in Google Forms or Docs with embedded answer keys to assess student understanding.
- Student Feedback Tool: deliver personalized, high-quality written feedback inside student Google Docs in minutes.
- Batch Feedback (Essay grader): upload a full folder of student assignments and generate individualized feedback across all of them at once.
- Writing Inspector: view a video replay of a student’s full writing process from first keystroke to final submission.
- Reading Level Adjuster: convert any online text into a Google Doc adjusted for a different reading level or translated into another language.
- Podcast Generator: transform lesson content into an audio podcast students can follow along with.
- Newsletter Generator: produce teacher newsletters or school bulletins from topic inputs.
- Brisk Next: get AI-powered recommendations for instructional materials and student activities aligned to standards and curriculum.
- Curriculum Intelligence: ground AI output in your school’s specific curriculum for more relevant and accurate materials.
- Brisk Boost for Students: give students an interactive learning experience built from any online resource.
- Integrations: connect with Google Classroom, Canvas and more.
What can Brisk Teaching do?
- Generate a lesson plan from a YouTube video
- Create a quiz with an answer key in Google Forms
- Give written feedback on student essays in Google Docs
- Adjust a text to a lower reading level
- Translate a classroom reading into another language
- Build a Google Slides presentation from a PDF
- Generate feedback for a whole class at once
- Track how a student wrote an essay step by step
- Create a classroom newsletter from teacher notes
- Turn a lesson into a student podcast
- Generate rubrics for student assignments
- Recommend instructional materials aligned to standards
Real-World Applications
A middle school English teacher grading 120 essays can run batch feedback across the full folder and get personalized written comments for every student. The AI tools for educators built into Brisk cut that process from hours to minutes. Each comment reflects the individual student’s work rather than a generic template.
Elementary teachers working with mixed reading levels can take a single article and produce multiple versions at different reading levels. The adjusted texts go straight to Google Docs, ready to distribute through Google Classroom. The same workflow handles English language learners by outputting translated versions alongside level-adjusted ones.
District instructional coaches rolling out a new curriculum across multiple schools can ground Brisk’s AI tools for educators in that specific curriculum using Curriculum Intelligence. Materials generated across the district stay aligned to the same standards and content rather than pulling from general web sources.
High school subject teachers who need to build a unit from scratch can start from a YouTube video, textbook PDF, or online article. Brisk generates the lesson plan, presentation, quiz, and rubric from that single source. Teachers review and adjust the drafts rather than building each piece from nothing.
