Brisk Teaching, a versatile AI-powered teaching assistant
Marking and feedbackQuiz/exercise makersSlide presentingIndividual workPresenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)ListeningReadingWritingWebsite/other users supplyGenerative AI
Description: Brisk Teaching is 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 in 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 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
Type Of Interaction:
Individual work,
Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling),
Skills:
Listening,
Reading,
Writing,
Content:
Website/other users supply,
Usability and tech notes ▼
Time efficiency 
Time needed to learn how to use a tool and its time-saving potential: Extremely high.
Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to: English.
Respect for privacy What data does the tool collect and why? What security measures are there? GDPR compliant? : 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 Can work be saved for future use?: Yes.
Any other relevant information:
- Installation required?: Yes, as a Google Chrome extension.
- Compatibility/ Operating System: Only Google Chrome.