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Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Quickly create instructional materials, share feedback, evaluate student writing, and adjust or translate texts—all without leaving your current workspace.

To use the Brisk Teaching Chrome extension, go to the Chrome Web Store, add the extension, and once installed, click the Brisk icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window to access its features. These features, all powered by AI, include creating lesson plans, generating quizzes, adjusting reading texts—at all levels—and providing feedback on student work. You can use the extension on any webpage or document you're working on.

Key steps:

Install:

Go to the Chrome Web Store and search for "Brisk Teaching" and add the extension to your browser.

Access:

Once installed, you'll see a Brisk icon in your browser toolbar; click on it to open the Brisk menu.

Select Function:

Depending on what you need, choose options like "Create Lesson Plan," "Generate Quiz," "Adjust Reading Level," or "Inspect Writing.".

Output Information:
output:

Provide necessary details like the topic, grade level, or text you want to analyse.

Review and Edit:

Brisk will generate content based on your input, which you can review and modify as needed.

Brisk Teaching is a web-based, AI-powered tool for automating some key classroom tasks. To use it, visit the developer's website and download the free Chrome extension and install it on the Google Chrome web browser on your device. Then, explore how to use the 20+ built-in AI prompts to automate key tasks like creating lesson plans, quiz questions, and presentations. It also offers teachers tools for differentiation, like translating text into 20+ languages and adjusting the reading level of digital texts. Other prompts give teachers a head start on offering feedback on student writing: After uploading their assignment prompt and a rubric, teachers can prompt Brisk to offer "glow and grow" feedback, assess whether students have met rubric requirements, and offer next steps for improving their writing. Premium plans offer even more features, including a Targeted Feedback Generator (which adds comments directly to students' Google Docs) and tools for creating standards-aligned and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) lesson plans.

In the increasingly crowded world of AI-powered tools for teachers, Brisk stands out for its focus on helping teachers learn how to use AI to complement and improve their work, not replace it. The teacher-created videos are especially good: They show how using AI tools is an ongoing process where teachers refine what they put into a template prompt and then refine and add to the materials that the AI tool generates as a result. Brisk is an especially powerful tool for helping teachers purposefully experiment with an AI tool: There's a lot of scaffolding available to inform new users getting started and inspire seasoned AI users to find more powerful ways to leverage AI-powered prompts. The tool's main drawback is that its premium features are available only through a school-wide or district-wide paid subscription; at the time of review, there was no option for teachers to purchase their own premium subscription to access some of the more powerful tools for differentiation. Nicely, when teachers sign up for a free account, they get access to those premium features for a limited time; this may offer teachers some opportunity to experience the features and then make the case to their administrators about purchasing a subscription.

To try Brisk, visit the developer's website and download the free Chrome extension. Then, be sure to complete the 20-minute orientation course (you'll earn a badge!). and browse the teacher-created videos linked from the same resource page. Experiment with the tools for changing the reading level of a text and creating quizzes from YouTube videos or digital texts; consider how the AI-generated text can be a starting point for creating assessments that meet your students' learning goals and align with relevant standards. Take a look at the 30+ built-in tools and consider which ones could be a good fit for your classroom. Test how the AI does when you prompt it to offer different kinds of feedback; for example, include text from the rubric for an assignment and tweak your prompt until the tool offers feedback on a sample assignment that helps you speed up your grading process. Consider how using the tool might improve your workflow: How might you be able to add deeper, more detailed feedback on student writing if you use Brisk to do a first pass of an essay and identify whether the essay addresses the items on your rubric?

Four core tools in Brisk:

1. Create
   Create Unlimited Instructional Materials
   Create quizzes, resources, slide decks, lesson plans, interventions (IEPs, MTSS menus), administrative tasks (emails, letters of rec, newsletters), and so much more.
   Select ‘something else’ to create anything you want (songs, jokes, etc.)!

2. Give Feedback
   Give Feedback to Students in 4 Powerful Ways
     Glows & Grows: Identify areas of strength, growth, and probing questions.
   Targeted: Instantly add Google Doc comments aligned with your rubric and standards, guiding students precisely where they need to revise. (Premium feature)
     Rubric Criteria: Generate feedback aligned to your uploaded rubric.
     Next Steps: Share suggestions and strategies to build core skills.

3. Inspect Writing
   Inspect Student Writing, In-Depth
   Watch a step-by-step playback of your students' revision history, including their copy and paste actions. This gives you a starting point to facilitate conversations around academic honesty, dishonesty, and more.

4. Change Level Translate & Level Any Text on the Internet
Customise and adjust the text or language of any Google Docs, articles, or webpage to match the learning levels and needs of your students.

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