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Boost Whiteboard — A New Way to See Student Thinking

January 29, 2026

Boost Whiteboard gives students a visual space to work through ideas, explain reasoning, and demonstrate understanding.

Teachers can see how students are thinking, and students can get support as they work.

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How Boost Whiteboard works

Step 1: Create a Boost activity

Create a Boost activity using Quick Create at app.briskteaching.com or the Boost Activity button from the Brisk extension.

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Step 2: Set up your Boost Whiteboard

Select Whiteboard as the activity type, then enter your prompt and choose standards, grade level, and language. Brisk handles the setup so your activity is ready to use right away.

Step 3: Review and customize your Whiteboard

Brisk generates questions designed specifically for whiteboard responses. These prompts encourage students to draw, label, organize ideas, and show their thinking visually.

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Step 4: Edit Template if needed

Use Edit Template to adjust the whiteboard students will receive. Upload images, add visual elements, or refine the question so expectations are clear and aligned to your lesson.

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Step 5: Share the activity with students

When you’re ready, share the activity with your class. Use Share Activity with Students to send the activity link, or copy the student link to post in your LMS or class workspace. Students can open the activity and begin working right away.

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Step 6: Students show their work and get feedback

Students draw, label, and explain their thinking directly on the Whiteboard. When they’re ready, they use Check Work to submit their whiteboard for feedback from Brisk Boost. Feedback highlights what’s correct and helps students see where they may need to revise, so learning continues as they work.

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Step 7: Students can get in the moment support

Students can use Get Help to clarify ideas or get help with next steps when questions come up.

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Step 8: Review student work and see classwide insights

Teachers can review student whiteboards in one place. Brisk surfaces classwide patterns across student work — showing what students understand, where they may need more support, and what to teach next.

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*Multi-questions are available for S&D only

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Curriculum Intelligence — AI Grounded in Your Curriculum

January 22, 2026

Curriculum Intelligence embeds your adopted curriculum directly into Brisk. By grounding AI in your district’s materials, standards, and pacing, Brisk ensures ideas, supports, and next steps stay aligned to what you actually teach.

Until now, AI use often lived in pockets –– one teacher spending time to engineer something powerful while others never saw it, and districts unable to see what was working or scale it. Curriculum Intelligence replaces that ad hoc use with a shared, trusted approach embedded where teaching happens.

New with Curriculum Intelligence:

Curriculum-aware AI grounded in your materials, scope, and sequence
Aligned support by default, not one-off prompts or disconnected tools
District-ready guardrails for visibility, alignment, and privacy
Teacher flexibility preserved, with the ability to adjust and keep their voice

Book a demo or join the waitlist to see Curriculum Intelligence in action.

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Batch Feedback Insights: See Classwide Patterns at a Glance

January 15, 2026

Batch Feedback Insights adds a new way for teachers to understand patterns across student work.

After feedback is generated, Brisk summarizes classwide strengths, growth areas, and — when rubric scoring is used — performance trends, so teachers can decide what to do next without opening every document.

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How it works

Run Batch Feedback on a set of student submissions.
Reopen the assignment after Batch Feedback has been run.

View the Insights Summary panel on the right to see class-level patterns based on the feedback.

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What teachers can see

Class-wide insights from feedback‍

When no rubric is attached, Brisk analyzes the feedback generated and surfaces general feedback themes across the class. Teachers see high-level strengths and growth areas drawn directly from the feedback — without reviewing individual submissions.

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Go deeper when needed

Select See More on any insight to open a detailed view with expanded strengths, growth areas, and options to generate next steps — all without leaving the assignment.

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Teachers can click through each section of the expanded view to review patterns in more detail.

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Rubric-aligned insights (when a rubric is used)‍

When a rubric is attached, insights are organized by rubric criteria, showing strengths and growth areas for each skill or standard.

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Score distribution for rubric scoring‍

For assignments using rubric scoring, teachers also see a score distribution to quickly understand overall performance across the class.

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Turn insights into action

From the Insights Summary or any detailed view, teachers can generate Next Recommendations tied directly to the patterns they’re seeing — making it easier to plan follow-up instruction, reteaching, or enrichment.

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Once recommendations are generated, teachers can:

Refine materials using Brisk Next chat
Edit individual activities
Build a bundle of teaching materials to share with students from the Brisk Next page

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Batch Feedback Insights transforms feedback into instructional insight. Teachers can see classwide strengths, growth areas, and rubric trends — then generate next steps to support learning, all from Brisk.

*Currently available for School and District Users

Boost School Hours: Manage When Students Can Engage with Boost

January 9, 2026

Manage when students can engage with Boost — based on your district’s expectations for safe, supervised AI use.

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Boost School Hours gives district administrators control over when students can engage with Boost. Admins can navigate to the Admin Dashboard to set a timezone and enable or disable specific days and hours, ensuring Boost is available only during approved windows.

Outside of designated School Hours, Boost student activity is automatically paused.

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What Admins Can Do

Define when Boost is accessible for students
Set access by day and time, aligned to school schedules
Apply settings district-wide with consistent expectations
Align Boost use with times when adults are available or aware

For example, an admin can fully turn off weekend Boost usage by toggling Saturday and Sunday off.

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*Available for School and District Users

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Translate Existing Forms and Quizzes Created by Brisk

December 4, 2025

Once your form or quiz is generated by Brisk, select Translate.

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Next, select the language you’d like to translate to.

Batch Feedback with Microsoft OneDrive

December 4, 2025

‍1. Go to app.briskteaching.com/next

Open Batch Feedback in Brisk.
Click Import Student Work

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Select, Microsoft OneDrive.

Choose the folder and select your students’ files.

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Then click Select

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2. Set up Batch Feedback

Review the file list and click Select Class.

Choose your feedback style: Glows & Grows, Next Steps, or Rubric Criteria.

Add your feedback focus (rubric, grade level, standards, and prompt). Then click, Create Assignment.

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3. Review and approve

Open each student’s file to view the AI-generated feedback.

Edit as needed and check Approve Feedback.

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4. Share with students

Click Share Feedback and Copy Link. You can send the link through Teams, email, or your LMS.

Quick Create From Web — Now in Brisk Next

December 3, 2025

Brisk Next is built for generating multiple resources at once to bundle and share — but some teachers just want to create one specific resource quickly.

The new Quick Create dropdown makes that easy.

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How it works:

Click Quick Create.

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Choose Document, Presentation, Form, Podcast, or Boost Activity.

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Enter your prompt, then select standards, language, and grade level.

My Library: Everything You Create, All in One Place

December 3, 2025

The My Library page (formerly Recent) has been upgraded to make it easier to find and manage everything you create with Brisk.

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What’s New

1. See all your Brisk-created content in one place: Resources now appear directly in My Library, including anything created through the Brisk Extension.

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2. View all Brisk materials: All your Brisk-created content — Class Activities, Bundles, Podcasts, Documents, Presentations, and Forms — now live together in one streamlined view.

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3. Search and load content more quickly: Search for any of your Brisk Creations to easily access resources.

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4. Manage content without leaving the page: Use the three-dots menu on any item to open, rename, move, or edit in just one click.

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5. Prefer Activities by class? No problem: You can still access class-organized Activities under the Activities tab. Bookmark the direct link if helpful: https://app.briskteaching.com/my_library?tab=activities

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Brisk Rewards Program

November 11, 2025

We launched our very first Brisk Rewards Program, a new way for teachers to earn swag just by sharing Brisk. When someone signs up through your link, you earn a point. At ten points, you unlock the Brisk Rewards Store filled with exclusive merch, classroom goodies, and fun surprises. Get started today!

Go from insight to instruction in one click with Next Ideas

November 7, 2025

You already know what students need from Boost Learning Insights — now you get the how.

Meet Next Ideas: classroom-ready activities generated from student strengths and areas to grow, right within Brisk Next.

Turn insights into tailored learning experiences you can launch instantly, designed for the students in front of you.

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How to access Next Ideas:

From the Brisk Extension, click the Home icon.

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Select My Library from the top navigation in Brisk Next or the dropdown menu.

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Open any Boost Activity and select Learning Insights.

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Click Next Ideas to reveal targeted activities Brisk created based on students’ strengths and growth areas.

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Explore ready-to-use instructional materials to Prepare, Engage, and Assess student learning.

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Learn how:

Create Polished, Print-Ready Activities That Cover Any Topic

August 25, 2026

If you feel like your students need a break from screens, we’ve got some great news: Brisk now includes a Printables Generator!

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Brisk Printables help you give students the cognitive and social benefits of off-screen activities without having to spend hours formatting (and re-formatting and re-re-formatting) docs and design files. With just a few clicks, you can transform whatever online resources you’ve been using into print-ready pen-and-paper activities that keep students engaged.

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You can choose from seven types of printables in Brisk:

Frayer Model: Unpack a vocabulary term or core concept in four quadrants
KWL Chart: Map what students know, want to know, and learned
Venn Diagram: Compare and contrast concepts
Q&A: Check for understanding (pro tip: these are perfect for exit tickets)
Worksheet: Generate a practice page for any topic
Mind Map: Branch a central topic into sub-topics
Newsletter: Keep students, families, and/or staff updated

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In addition to using these templates to cover whatever learning content you want, you can adjust the look and feel of each of them by selecting one of five design themes: editorial, groovy, minimal, playful, or simple.

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How it works:

Open the article, PDF, video, or other resource you want to generate a printable from.‍ (You can also start from scratch by simply describing a topic during Step 4.)
Open Brisk, type “printable” into the search box, and select the Printables Generator from the search results.
Choose your preferred format and, if you want to customize the look and feel of your printable, your preferred design theme.
Share some specifics about grade level, difficulty, and which parts of a topic you want your printable to cover.
Chat back and forth with Brisk to finalize the printable by fine-tuning its content or layout.
Print your new printable or grab a view-only share link to it.

Turn a Spreadsheet into a Student Activity

August 3, 2026

Brisk now works on spreadsheets. Open a Google Sheet or an Excel file and Brisk reads every tab as context for whatever you build next. Lab data, assessment results, a sample household budget for a personal finance unit: ask for a worksheet, quiz, or Boost activity based on it and you'll get one without copying a single cell into a doc first.

Nothing to set up. It's on for every teacher, on every plan.‍

A few things to know: Brisk reads spreadsheets, but it can't write into them or build new ones. All tabs are read together, so you can't pick just one. And very large workbooks may get cut off.

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Multi-Level & Multi-Grade Creation, Now in the New Brisk

August 3, 2026

Multi-level and multi-grade creation is now available in the new Brisk. Ask for a resource across a few grade bands, levels, or languages, and Brisk builds every version at once, then delivers them together as a single bundle.‍

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How it works:

Tell Brisk what you need: In the search bar, describe the resource and the range of grades, levels, or languages you're building for — or use the language and grade level settings to multi-select directly.
Answer a few quick questions: Brisk's conversational Create experience will ask the same kinds of questions it always does to support your instructional goals.
Open your bundle: Every version is generated together and ready to hand out to the right students.

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Note: The ability to rework your outputs available elsewhere in the new Brisk isn't yet supported inside bundles. To revise an individual version, use the classic Create workflow.

Welcome to the New Brisk

July 16, 2026

The Brisk extension has a new look, one designed to better support how you work and help you feel prepared for every class, every week, and every school year!

Instead of clicking through menus to find the right tool and then filling out multiple fields, you can simply tell Brisk what you need and it’ll build it. (Don’t worry, you still have the ability to browse your favorite tools if you want to.) From worksheets and quizzes to lesson plans and rubrics, anything you’re used to building with the Create tool is now just a quick conversation away.

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How it works:

1. Search for the type of resource you have in mind: Start typing what you’re looking for in the Brisk extension search bar and a list of relevant resource types will appear. No need to remember the proper names of Brisk tools — use whatever words make sense to you and Brisk will figure it out.

(Note that while the new search function will return results spanning all Brisk tools, at this time, only the Create tool will deliver a conversational experience during subsequent steps.)

2. Share a few specifics about what you need: In the new conversational experience, Brisk will ask a few quick questions about whatever prompt you provide to make sure it understands what you’re after. Answering these questions is optional, but recommended. (You’ll still be able to use the classic Create workflow, too.)

Depending on the context, Brisk’s questions might look like:

“What’s the purpose of this exit ticket?” (e.g., a formative check after a day’s lesson, a diagnostic before kicking off a new unit, prep for a summative unit test)
“Are there any misconceptions about the topic you want this resource to address?” (choose from a list of relevant options or type your own response)
“Is there anything your students have been struggling to grasp about this topic?” (choose from a list of relevant options or type your own response)

Once you’ve had this brief conversation, Brisk will draw on your responses, your original prompt, your curriculum, and, if your district has Brisk Intelligence, district leader guidance to build a resource that’s fully aligned with your needs and your district’s priorities.

3. Fine-tune the resource until it’s perfect: Chat back and forth with Brisk to make any adjustments to your new resource. As you provide instructions — think: “make this shorter” or “swap the third question for something more challenging” or “add scaffolding for ELL students” — the resource will update right before your eyes. No need to start over or sift through multiple versions.

Read more about the new Brisk, and see the experience in action:

Resources for learning the New Brisk

Use Brisk Tools Directly in Claude

July 14, 2026

With the Brisk Connector, your favorite Brisk tools are just a sentence away in Claude. Chat with Claude about what you’re working on and it’ll give you ready-to-use links to the types of high-quality instructional materials you’re used to creating with Brisk — no more jumping between multiple browser windows.

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What teachers can do in Claude with the Brisk Connector:

Create Boost Activity: Builds an interactive, AI-powered student activity (tutor, quiz-me, debate, exit ticket, writing coach) complete with learning objectives and guardrails.
Generate activity ideas: Suggests a set of Boost Activity ideas for a topic — no commitment until you create one.
Create teaching resource: Creates a lesson plan, quiz, rubric, worksheet, sub plan, or other resource as a Google Doc or Google Form.
Set up Batch Feedback: Creates an assignment shell for grading a set of student work (you add submissions and run feedback in the Brisk web app).
List standards: Browses Brisk’s standards database so your materials will be aligned to the right frameworks, grade level, and state.
Get teacher context: Reads your class names, grades, and subjects (never student data) so Claude can tailor its suggestions.

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Connect Claude to Brisk:

To use the Brisk Connector, you’ll need a Brisk account, a Claude account, and, for any tool that creates a Google Doc or Google Form, a Google account that’s connected to Brisk.
Open Claude (web or desktop).
In a new chat, click the + button near the prompt and select Connectors, then click Add Connector. You can also start the process here.
Use the search bar to find the Brisk Connector and click Connect.
You’ll be prompted to sign in to your Brisk Teaching account and allow Claude to access it. Click Allow.
Once connected, Brisk will appear in your list of Connectors and Claude will be able to use Brisk tools directly in your Claude chat.