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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!

Customize Brisk with the Admin Tool Manager

April 7, 2025

Meet the Admin Tool Manager, a new feature designed for School & District partners who want more control and customization across the platform. Whether you’re rolling out new initiatives or streamlining the tools your teachers use daily, the Admin Tool Manager puts you in the driver’s seat.

With the Admin Tool Manager, you can:

Create custom tools using your own prompts – aligned to your district’s instructional goals.
Publish tools directly to every teachers’ Brisk Library – so they’re instantly accessible.
Hide Brisk’s default tools that aren’t relevant to your context, keeping your team focused on what matters most.

How to Use the Admin Tool Manager

Getting started is quick:

Step 1: Click Brisk in the bottom right corner of your browser.

Step 2: Select Create.

Step 3: At the top of your Library, click Manage Tools.

Step 4: Customize tools for your school or district’s needs. You can create new tools specifically for your staff.

Step 5: In addition to creating new tools, you can also edit, publish, or delete any tools for a customized experience.

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When instructional tools align with your goals, everyone wins. The Admin Tool Manager gives you the flexibility to create consistency, streamline workflows, and keep everything aligned to your goals.

Turn Lessons into Podcasts in Seconds with Brisk’s Podcast Generator

April 1, 2025

Brisk’s newest feature makes it easier than ever to engage every learner — anytime, anywhere. With the Podcast Generator, you can instantly transform lessons, articles, and other content into dynamic audio experiences.

Whether you're aiming to boost accessibility, support multilingual learners, or simply give students more ways to connect with content, this tool makes it seamless. No extra prep. No extra hassle.

Just powerful, student-centered learning — delivered with the speed and simplicity you expect from Brisk. Learn more about the Brisk Podcast Generator here.

Brisk Boost Writing Activities is Here

March 4, 2025

With Boost Writing Activities, every student gets the support they need—without you having to run from desk to desk all class period.

There are 4 ways to use Boost Writing Activities:

‍Writing Coach – The ultimate writing sidekick
Glow & Grow – Feedback students can actually use
‍Next Steps – Because writing doesn’t end at submission
‍Goal Setting – Reflection + growth

To try it out, open a writing prompt or writing activity, click on 'Boost Student Activity', and click Write.

Brisk now works with images!

February 28, 2025

Just drag, drop, or upload any image - whiteboard notes, messy worksheets, student work - and Brisk will instantly turn it into questions, feedback, and activities.

New Tool: Create Anything Button

February 14, 2025

The Create Anything button! Instantly generate AI powered teaching resources—quizzes, vocabulary lists, escape rooms, and more—customized to your classroom. Try it now and bring your ideas to life in seconds!

5 New Create Tools

December 27, 2024

In Brisk's create menu you'll notice 5 new buttons. In just a few seconds, generate your:

Guided Notes: Brisk provides structured notes that highlight key points and concepts to keep students on track.
Unit Plans: Generate organized unit plans with ready-to-use templates to keep lessons engaging.
Sub Plans: Need a last-minute substitute? Brisk creates easy-to-follow plans and materials that you can share with the sub.
SAT Practice Tests: Provide students with full-length, timed SAT practice tests to help them prepare for test day.

Brisk Boost for Students is Here!

September 17, 2024

Brisk Boost is a tool that helps teachers turn everyday educational resources into interactive, AI-powered learning experiences. Teachers can transform materials like Google Docs, presentations, and articles into engaging activities that boost student participation and understanding. With Brisk Boost, students interact with AI-powered tools like brainstorming partners, quick checks for understanding, and real-time feedback - allowing teachers to personalize lessons and help students master the material in a secure, effective way. Learn more here.

4 New Tools!

August 28, 2024

4 new tools have been added to make Brisk more powerful for math and science educators. Open up the create menu to create a math spiral review, math word problems, science labs, and inquiry worksheets in seconds.

Premium Features Free for All Educators

August 27, 2024

Back to school is hectic, and we want you to have everything you need (and more!) to stress less this school year. So, we’re giving all educators FREE access to Brisk Educator Pro, our new teacher premium subscription, through September 15th. Whether you’re new to Brisk, or an existing user, open Brisk to experience all Brisk has to offer.

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.

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.

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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.