Brisk Teaching
Principal function(s): Marking and feedbackQuiz/exercise makersSlide presentingAI instructional design & teacher supportAI feedback & assessmentIndividual workPresenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)ListeningReadingWritingTeacherWebsite/other users supply
Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered Chrome extension designed to assist educators with various teaching tasks. The free version includes 20 tools that work with Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and other platforms. Teachers can create lesson plans, quizzes, presentations, and rubrics directly in their browser. Brisk Teaching also allows for personalized feedback within students' Google Docs and offers tools for adjusting text levels and translating content into over 30 languages. This makes it a useful resource for diverse classrooms and helps teachers save time on administrative tasks. Brisk Teaching is developed by a group of technologists, educators, and parents.
Evaluation: Brisk Teaching is an extremely useful tool for teachers and educators. It can assist teachers with time-consuming tasks such as materials creation, feedback, and lesson planning. Moreover, it has an intuitive interface and integrates smoothly with other tools commonly used in the classroom. Brisk Teaching provides a “Use Cases” section on its website for teachers to see different examples of use in diverse contexts. To give examples, teachers can use Brisk Teaching to create a listening comprehension activity out of a YouTube video in a few minutes or put together interactive slides on a topic in several languages and levels. However, the fact that it is available only as a Chrome extension is a limitation. Overall, Brisk Teaching is a very efficient and powerful tool for teachers. It also provides a student functionality called Brisk Boost.
Cost: Free basic plan
Website: https://www.briskteaching.com/
Categories
Type Of Interaction
- Individual work
- Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)
Skills
- Listening
- Reading
- Writing
Content
- Website/other users supply
Usability
Interface 
User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface
Smooth, easy-to-use.
Time efficiency Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task
Extremely high.
Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to
English.
Respect for privacy Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?
High. Brisk Teaching commits to protecting student and education privacy, and uses the least amount of data possible for operating. It does not sell or rent data to third parties, and does not use student data for marketing or advertising purposes. Its business model is instead based on paid subscriptions for schools. Brisk Teaching has mechanisms in place to safeguard data and refrains from using student data to improve AI models. It acknowledges users’ rights to modify and delete their data, together with changing their cookie preferences and communications settings. Brisk Teachings complies with the GDPR. See more here.
Saving work for future use Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction
Yes.
Tailorability (If so, how?) Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)
High, Brisk Teaching can be used for different purposes.
Technical requirements
Installation required?
Yes, as a Google Chrome extension.
Compatibility/ Operating System
Only Google Chrome.
Other technical requirements