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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.

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.

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

(This feature is available upon request.)

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.