Brisk teaching is an amazing tool for teachers
In this post, I will walk you through the different things you can do on Brisk and how you can leverage
its AI-powered features to facilitate your teaching tasks.
1. Creating Engaging Educational Materials
Explanation: This feature helps you create visual and interactive materials easily, making lessons more
engaging for students without spending a lot of time.
Example: You find an interesting article online. With Brisk, you can convert that article into a
presentation in minutes.
2. Grading: Explanation: Brisk streamlines the feedback process, allowing you to provide detailed and
tailored comments quickly, which helps students learn from their work.
Example: A student submits an essay on Google Docs. You use Brisk to generate personalized feedback,
highlighting their strengths and suggesting improvements.
1. Targeted Feedback: Besides creating educational materials, Brisk can also help with simplifying
administrative tasks. For instance, you can use Brisk to quickly generate work related emails, reports,
cover or recommendation letters, newsletters, and much more.
Explanation: This specific comment helps students know exactly what to improve.
Example: "Add more examples in this paragraph."
2. Glow & Grow: Once Brisk generates feedback and before you post it, you can go ahead and further
customize it so it feels organic. You can modify it the way you want. You can add your own tone of
voice, edit personalized details, and more. Any feedback you don’t like can be easily deleted. Once
your feedback is ready, click to post it on your student’s work. Students will not know that you have
used Brisk to generate feedback.
Explanation: This highlights strengths and offers a way to improve, encouraging reflection.
3. Rubric Criteria: Inspect Writing is absolutely an excellent tool to help you grade students work.
Based on its feedback, you can make more informed grading decisions by understanding each
student’s writing process. You can evaluate their effort, identify whether they relied heavily on pasted
content, and see how much time they invested in refining their work. This feature provides deeper
insights into students’ writing habits and can guide your feedback to be more personalized and
constructive.
Explanation: This feedback ties directly to grading criteria, showing where students need to improve.
4. Next Steps:The ability to adjust reading levels will especially benefit ESL students and struggling
readers, as it allows you to tailor content to their comprehension skills, making learning more
accessible and engaging. Also, being able to simplify complex texts or elevate simpler ones allows you
to provide reading materials that appropriately challenge students individualized reading levels. This
feature also empowers teachers to differentiate instruction effectively, meeting the diverse needs of
their classrooms.
Explanation: This provides clear, actionable advice on what to do next for improvement.
3. Inspect Writing: Explanation: This feature allows you to track a student's writing process, helping you
understand their effort and the changes they made, which supports fair grading.
Example: A student submits their assignment, and you click on Brisk's "Inspect Writing." You can see
how they developed their essay over time.
4. Adjust Reading Levels:Explanation: This tool makes texts more accessible, allowing you to tailor
materials for all students, especially those who may struggle with reading.
Example: You find a complex article, but your students need simpler content. You use Brisk to adjust the
reading level to match their abilities.
5. Brisk Boost: Explanation: Brisk Boost lets you design targeted activities that promote critical thinking
and collaboration, making learning more dynamic and enjoyable.
These examples illustrate how Brisk Teaching can enhance your teaching and improve student learning
experiences in various ways.
1. Tutor: Explanation: This personalized help allows students to get specific guidance on topics they find
challenging.
2. Hook: Explanation: This question grabs students' attention and encourages them to think creatively
about the topic.
3. Rubric Criteria: Explanation: This interactive experience helps students understand complex ideas
through the perspective of a historical figure.
4. Debate: Explanation: This activity promotes critical thinking as students support their arguments with
evidence and learn to communicate effectively.
5. Inquiry: Explanation: This encourages curiosity and scientific thinking as students investigate real-
world concepts.
6. Brainstorm: Explanation: This collaborative activity helps students think creatively and work together
to solve problems.
Example: Students generate ideas for a class project on renewable energy.
7. Real-world Math: Explanation: This makes math relevant by connecting it to everyday situations,
helping students see its practical use.
Example: Students solve a problem about budgeting for a school event.
These examples demonstrate how Brisk Teaching can enhance the experience of both teachers and
students in various ways.
Once you create and customize your activity, click to generate a unique link students can use to access
and work on the activity. You will be able to see how students interact with the activity in real time.
