Brisk Teaching

What is Brisk Teaching?

Who created Brisk Teaching?

Brisk Teaching was created by Arman, Corey, and Tom. Arman, a computer scientist, founded Brisk with a passion for empowering educators through technology. Corey, with over two decades of experience in education, played a crucial role in leading big-picture change. Tom, with two decades of engineering experience, brought his expertise in consumer products and EdTech to the team. Brisk was launched on March 20, 2023, with the mission to lighten the workload for teachers and improve their lives by providing AI-powered tools for various teaching tasks.

What is Brisk Teaching used for?

• Assists in curriculum development by enabling teachers to create and source tailored learning content, worksheets, resources, and exam questions
• Can customize feedback to reflect a teacher's personal teaching style
• Personalizes curriculum based on teaching preferences by responding to feedback and ingesting curriculum used by the teacher
• Reading level assessment to determine the age appropriateness of texts and change the reading level of online text
• Populates converted articles into Google Docs for easy sharing with students and generating additional materials
• Detects AI writing, checks for plagiarism and grammar errors, and assesses student effort on assignments using version history data
• Supports curriculum differentiation for individual students or groups by helping teachers personalize curriculum
• Generates reading comprehension quizzes by converting articles and populating them into Google Docs
• Analyzes feedback across a class to understand where students are struggling and adjust lesson plans accordingly
• Supports curriculum development with features like personalized curriculum creation, feedback generation, and creation of engaging curriculum
• Offers the ability to localize, personalize, and differentiate curriculum based on the preferences and needs of individual students or entire classes
• Generates feedback using its AI-powered tool
• Customizes feedback to reflect a teacher's personal teaching style
• Personalizes curriculum based on the teacher's preferences by analyzing and responding to feedback and used curriculum
• Assesses student effort on assignments using version history data
• Supports curriculum differentiation for individual students or groups
• Can change the reading level of any online text
• Populates converted articles into Google Docs for easy sharing with students or for generating additional materials like reading comprehension quizzes

Who is Brisk Teaching for?

• Teachers
• Educators
• Instructional Coaches
• Principals

How to use Brisk Teaching?

To effectively utilize Brisk Teaching, follow these steps:

1. Access Brisk: Add the Brisk Chrome extension for free from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Key Features: Benefit from features like feedback provision, text leveling, content creation, writing inspection, and transforming content into quizzes or slide decks.
3. Integration: Seamlessly integrate Brisk with Google Docs and Google Classroom to detect AI-generated writing without manual file uploads.
4. Usage: Utilize the tool for plagiarism checks, grammar error identification, curriculum development, and sourcing learning content, worksheets, resources, and exam questions.
5. Customization: Customize feedback to align with your teaching style, personalize and differentiate curriculum, and adjust reading levels of online text.
6. Student Assessment: Monitor student effort through version history analysis, enabling the identification of valuable insights and areas needing support.
7. Accessibility: Enjoy a user-friendly interface that aids in teaching workflows, generates engaging curriculum, and supports real-time adjustments based on feedback.

By following these steps, educators can harness the full potential of Brisk Teaching to enhance student learning experiences and streamline teaching processes.