Brisk Teaching
Tech Tip Tuesday (September 16, 2025)
What is Brisk Teaching?
Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered online platform and Chrome extension designed specifically to help teachers save time and enhance their teaching.
There are a ton of AI tools, especially ones designed for education, that are out there, but I find Brisk to be there when I need it to there since it works off of a Chrome extension. Its tools work seamlessly with Google Docs, Slides, Forms, YouTube, and more to create lesson plans, quizzes, presentations, rubrics, progress reports, and personalized student feedback. Teachers can also use Brisk to adjust reading levels, inspect student writing processes, generate curriculum materials, and manage administrative tasks, all within the tools they already use. Plus, a lot of it is in front of the paywall, making it accessible for more folks.
Here are 3 ways that I've found it to be helpful in the classroom!
You can check on their progress as they are writing, allowing you to provide timely guidance and support. Or, you can give them comprehensive feedback on a completed assignment, helping them understand how to improve for the next time. Comments remain in draft mode and will only post on student work after your approval, ensuring that feedback is authentic and meaningful.
Inspect Writing lets teachers watch a video-style replay that shows exactly how a student created their writing. From the first draft through all edits, additions, and pasted text, this tool makes it easy to identify their writing process, spot academic honesty concerns, and detect possible AI use, giving teachers valuable insight into student learning and helps ensure the integrity of their work.
Lots of tools can generate what the presentation might be laid out or the content that would go inside. However, one of my favorite things about their Create tool is that it will make it in the Google Workspace right from the source you're using. Tools like their Presentation Maker, Quiz Generator, or Create Anything to have it generate right into a Google Workspace file.
Snap those synapses.
Snappywords.com is make the English language a bit more engaging with easy ways to use tools that most avoid: a dictionary & thesaurus.
- The Visual Dictionary enhances your understanding of words with engaging visualizations and connections to related terms.
- Puzzle players share solutions with each other in our Scrabble Dictionary
- Word Generator fosters creativity and Word Unscrambler is really handy for sorting letters out.
- In the Knowledge Corner, the present interesting information about sentences, words, letters and English grammar.
- The Word Finder locates words according to a user's pre-defined parameters.
- Mental fitness is trained through our games and puzzles.
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