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Next Level Ideas: Your Thought Partner at Your Fingertips

October 30, 2025

Looking for next-level teaching ideas? The Brisk extension just got a refresh! Now you can chat with Brisk to brainstorm and refine ideas from the content on any web page.

Use the Brisk extension for Next Level Ideas

Learn how:

Boost Enhancements

October 30, 2025

More control. More personal. Same speed.

Creating Boost student activities just got even better. With enhanced personalization options and added teacher controls, you can now fine-tune each activity to fit your class — without slowing down your workflow. Boost still gives you the same one-click ease you love, now with even more ways to make learning personal.

What’s new:

  • More granular controls during activity creation
  • Expanded personalization options
  • A smoother, more seamless creation experience

Learn more about the new Boost experience:

Bundles from the Extension

October 21, 2025

Create more at once — right from your Brisk Extension.

Turn one great resource into a full set of connected instructional materials — all from the Brisk Extension. Choose up to three materials to create (like guided notes, a presentation, or a podcast), and Brisk handles the heavy lift — giving you more time to focus on the learning that matters most.

Here’s how it works:

  1. Open Brisk over any resource of choice and Click Create.
  1. Select up to three instructional materials to create at once and click, Next.
  1. Add your details. Include standards, grade level, and customize each prompt. Then, Brisk It. Brisk builds classroom-ready materials designed for flexibility and quality.
  1. Review and refine. Everything saves together as one organized bundle in Google Drive — ready to teach, share, or personalize for your students.

Differentiate with Change Level and Translate

Every classroom is different — and your materials should meet every student where they are.

With Brisk, you can take any single resource you’ve created and adapt it to fit your learners:

  • Change Level to adjust reading level across up to three grades.
  • Translate into up to three languages to support multilingual students.

You can do this during creation when you build one resource from Create, or later using Change Level on any file of choice.

It’s a simple way to ensure every student can access the same high-quality learning — without starting over or juggling separate versions.

  • Adjust reading level across up to three grades to meet students where they are.
  • Translate any resource into up to three languages to support multilingual learners.

You can also select multiple grade levels and languages to translate to after selecting a resource from the Create menu.

With Bundles from the Extension, every teacher can create, adapt, and differentiate high-quality instructional materials — all in one place.

Check out our video tutorials of this feature:

Batch Feedback

October 1, 2025

Batch Feedback

High-quality feedback, without the wait

Upload a folder of student work — essays, PDFs, even snapshots of math — and return personalized, teacher-reviewed feedback to your whole class while learning is still fresh.

With Batch Feedback you can:

  • Keep kids learning, not waiting. Students get guidance right away, while they’re still working through the material.
  • Close the timing gap. Typical turnaround is 2–3 weeks. With Batch Feedback, feedback lands within a day — exactly when it matters most.
  • Stay in control. Brisk drafts comments, you review and shape every word.
  • Work across formats. Essays, PDFs, lab reports, math photos — even Word docs uploaded through Google Drive.

How to Access

  • In the Brisk extension, click Feedback, then select Batch Feedback.
  • Or, open Brisk Next from the Home icon and choose Batch Feedback at the top.

Availability & Limits

  • Free users: Up to 4 assignments per day
  • Free & Education Pro: Up to 30 submissions per assignment (create a new assignment for more)
  • All accounts: 100 submissions maximum per assignment

Works With

Google Docs · Google Slides · Images (JPG, PNG, WEBP) · PDFs · Microsoft Word (.docx from Google Drive)

Batch Feedback takes what you already love about Brisk’s feedback tools and makes it work for your whole class at once.

Add on for Batch Feedback: Rubric Scoring (School & District Accounts Only)

School and District partners have the option to add Rubric Scoring to Batch Feedback. Along with written feedback, Brisk can also generate scores based on the rubric you upload — making it easier to standardize grading across classes and track progress at scale.

Rubric Scoring is fully customizable: educators can adjust scores based on their knowledge of the student and the work. This feature is available as an opt-in for School & District accounts

Our Full Getting Started Guide is Here

September 5, 2025

With so many possibilities inside Brisk, we wanted to build a simple, go-to guide to help educators dive in right away. We created the Getting Started with Brisk Guide to help educators get the most out of Brisk. Our new guide walks you through:

  • Creating your Brisk account with your Google or Microsoft login.
  • Installing the Brisk Extension so Brisk is ready to go inside your everyday tools.
  • Trying hands-on “Try It” activities that let you experience Brisk’s core features – from adjusting text levels to generating lessons and feedback.
  • Using Brisk Next as your web-based hub for lesson planning, resource bundling, and assignments.
  • Diving into educator-specific activities designed for your context, whether you teach elementary, middle school, high school, or university students.
  • Trying Brisk Boost for safe, student-facing AI activities with you guiding the process.

Get the guide here.

Bundles in Brisk Next

August 18, 2025

In Brisk Next, you can organize resources into Bundles. After generating content, just click the + sign to add activities or materials into a bundle. From there, you can:

  • Customize each resource to fit your classroom needs
  • Share individual items or the entire bundle with students (or templates with colleagues)
  • Control visibility so you decide which resources students can see and when
  • Choose view types to match how you want students to interact with each activity

Bundles make it simple to package lessons, activities and resourcs — all in one place.

Brisk Next is Here

August 18, 2025

Brisk Next is here –– the new home base for teachers inside Brisk. With personalized recommendations, a chat to refine content, and the ability to bundle multiple resources into Boost activities, Brisk Next helps teachers plan, engage, and assess with ease. From surfacing tailored ideas based on your recent work and student insights to keeping all your generated materials in one place, Brisk Next goes beyond the extension — turning classroom data into powerful next steps and making it easier than ever to figure out what’s next in your teaching.

Brisk Works with Microsoft

August 5, 2025

Brisk now works seamlessly with Microsoft tools, making it easier than ever for educators in Microsoft-based schools and districts to harness AI. With Single Sign-On and OneDrive integration, teachers can log in with their Microsoft account, open Word or PowerPoint files, and instantly use Brisk to generate lessons, give feedback, adjust reading levels, and create student-facing activities. Creations export right back into Word, PowerPoint, or OneDrive — keeping workflows intact while reducing friction, boosting adoption, and finally bringing Brisk’s time-saving power to the educators who’ve been asking for it.

Learn more here.

Add Credibility with Brisk Sources

August 5, 2025

You can quickly add sources to any AI-generated content in this Brisk Bites PD.

  • When enabled, Brisk automatically pulls numbered, linked sources from the web and adds them to the bottom of your creation.
  • Small numbers appear at the end of each sentence, showing exactly where each fact came from.

Your Hub for All Things Back To School

August 4, 2025

The NEXT Level of Teaching, Leading and Learning has arrived with Brisk Teaching. Watch this page for product updates, new releases, and more!

Inspect Writing & Targeted Feedback in Microsoft Word

June 29, 2026

Microsoft teachers now have access to two tools that enable them to deliver more (and more personalized) feedback to students in less time: Inspect Writing and Targeted Feedback.

Inspect Writing

(Note: This new feature will become available for back to school 2026.)

Watch a video-style replay of a student’s writing process from first draft through final version. See what they added and deleted at each step and how they responded to feedback. Use this to gain insight into how your students are thinking, spot learning gaps, and guide growth.

Targeted Feedback

Provide students with personalized feedback that appears directly in the Word docs they’re working in. Brisk drafts inline comments that are aligned with your standards and whatever rubric you want, but you remain in full control of what students see.

How it works:

  1. Open a student writing assignment in Word.
  2. Select the Targeted Feedback tool in the Brisk extension.
  3. Set the language and grade level for the feedback and specify whether you want the feedback to align with an attached rubric or your state standards.
  4. Review the feedback Brisk generates, make adjustments, and click Comment to post a piece of feedback to the student’s work.

Share Boost Activities with Other Educators

June 29, 2026

You can now share Boost Activities with the other educators in your classroom (SPED staff, MTSS coordinators, paraprofessionals, subs). These co-teachers will have read-only access to student progress and activity data so they’re able to observe and support student learning.

How it works:

  1. Open the Share menu: In My Library, go to Activities and click the Share button or the three-dot menu on any activity, then select Share with Co-Teachers. (You can revoke access at any time by removing a co-teacher from the activity’s Share menu.)
  2. Enter a colleague’s email: Type their email and send the invite. They’ll receive a link to accept. (To successfully accept an invite, their email must be rostered in your district.)
  3. Co-teacher accepts: Once they accept the invite, the activity appears in their My Library under Shared with Me.
  4. Co-teacher views the activity: They see the activity monitor — including student progress, messages, safety flags, and Mock Student — in a read-only view. No edit controls are shown.

You can also share your favorite Boost Activities with your fellow teachers, who can then make copies of the activities to use with their own students.

Shape Every Brisk Output with District-Level Priorities

June 29, 2026

District Guidance gives districts with the Intelligence plan a way to consistently translate instructional leadership investments (professional development, pedagogical frameworks, standards alignment) into actual classroom practice.

In the District Guidance tab of their Admin Portal, leaders provide instructions that automatically shape everything teachers generate with the Brisk extension, Brisk Boost, and Brisk Next. These instructions don’t change the way teachers use or experience Brisk — they simply ensure that every Brisk output reflects a district’s unique priorities.

Leaders can use District Guidance on its own or in tandem with Curriculum Intelligence. (Reminder: Curriculum Intelligence ensures that every Brisk output reflects a district’s adopted curriculum, scope, and pacing.) While Curriculum Intelligence informs what is being taught, District Guidance informs how it’s being taught.

Leaders have the option of providing instructions in four categories:

  • District Priorities: High-level goals, strategic priorities, focus areas (e.g., “The district is focusing on literacy across all content areas this year”)
  • Values & Frameworks: Cultural values, behavioral frameworks, ethical guidelines, community norms (e.g., “Emphasize the district’s four Cs: communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking”)
  • Pedagogical Approach: Teaching methods, instructional strategies, learning philosophies (e.g., “Use Workshop Model structure: mini-lesson, practice, debrief”)
  • Standards Emphasis: Academic standards, curriculum alignment requirements, assessment criteria (e.g., “Emphasize these power standards for 6th grade math”)

(Note: This new feature will become available in July 2026.)

Create District-Level Libraries of Curriculum-Aligned Resources

June 29, 2026

The District Library enables districts with the Intelligence plan to promote curriculum fidelity and help teachers spend less time looking for the right resource and more time delivering high-quality instruction.

Once a district leader has set their curriculum and instructional priorities using Curriculum Intelligence and District Guidance, they’re able to curate resource bundles for any course in their district. It’s like putting a perfectly organized library shelf at every teacher’s fingertips.

How District Libraries are organized:

  • One library per course: Leaders can create a resource library for each course that’s published in the Curriculum Courses tab of their Admin Portal.
  • One bundle per lesson: Leaders can put together a bundle for each lesson in a course (reminder: within a scope and sequence, lessons ladder up to units, which ladder up to modules, the largest components of a course).
  • One source of truth, easy access for teachers: Only leaders can edit or add to a District Library, but with just one click, teachers can create independent copies of a bundle in their personal resource libraries that they can customize and share with their students.

Building a resource bundle

There are several ways for leaders to add resources to a bundle. They can:

  • Choose from a pre-populated list of smart recommendations that are informed by the district’s curriculum and instructional priorities. These recommendations are organized into practical categories like “More ways to teach…” (for supporting diverse learning styles) and “For students who are ready for a challenge…”
  • Generate customized resources using the dozens of tools that are part of the Brisk extension.
  • Upload pre-existing, non-Brisk resources.

(Note: This new feature will become available in July 2026.)

Brisk x AI Platforms

May 18, 2026

You're already in ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or Claude, typing a quick prompt to get something useful before tomorrow. Brisk is already there too, and one click turns that prompt into something you can hand out in class.

Prompt Booster

Start typing in any of these tools and a Brisk It button appears in the prompt field. Click it and your prompt becomes a detailed, instructionally rich version with grade-level framing, standards alignment, and scaffolding strategies built in — so what the AI gives back is classroom-ready from the start.

From there, choose what to do next:

  • Add to Prompt: drop the enhanced prompt back into your AI tool and run with it.
  • Create with Brisk: open Brisk Next with your enhanced prompt already loaded. Brisk surfaces aligned lesson plans, assessments, presentations, and more — all from that one prompt.

Take Action on Any AI Response

Already have a response you like? When the AI finishes generating, a Brisk button appears below it. Click to send it where you need it:

  • Send to Brisk on the web: push the response directly into Brisk on the web, with or without an additional prompt.
  • Send to extension: select Presentation, Quiz, Podcast, Tutor, or Create with Brisk to prefill the Brisk Extension. Customize, then create.

Wherever you're already prompting, Brisk works where you work. Learn more.