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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!

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!

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.

You can choose from seven types of printables in Brisk:

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

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.

How it works:

  1. 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.)
  2. Open Brisk, type “printable” into the search box, and select the Printables Generator from the search results.
  3. Choose your preferred format and, if you want to customize the look and feel of your printable, your preferred design theme.
  4. Share some specifics about grade level, difficulty, and which parts of a topic you want your printable to cover.
  5. Chat back and forth with Brisk to finalize the printable by fine-tuning its content or layout.
  6. 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.

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.

How it works:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Open your bundle: Every version is generated together and ready to hand out to the right students.

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.

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.

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.

Connect Claude to Brisk:

  1. 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.
  2. Open Claude (web or desktop).
  3. In a new chat, click the + button near the prompt and select Connectors, then click Add Connector. You can also start the process here.
  4. Use the search bar to find the Brisk Connector and click Connect.
  5. You’ll be prompted to sign in to your Brisk Teaching account and allow Claude to access it. Click Allow.
  6. Once connected, Brisk will appear in your list of Connectors and Claude will be able to use Brisk tools directly in your Claude chat.