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Brisk Boost for Students

With Brisk Boost, educators can turn any online resource into an educational, AI-powered activity and then monitor student learning and engagement in real-time.

Brisk Boost creates a safe environment for students to leverage AI in their learning while giving educators valuable insights - bridging the gap between traditional teaching methods and cutting-edge educational technology.

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Students boost their learning

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How Brisk Boost Works

1

Find a Resource

Choose any material online – like a Google Doc, YouTube video, or web article.

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2

Boost it

Open the Brisk Chrome extension and click 🎒Boost Student Activity to quickly turn your resource into an interactive activity.

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3

Build an Activity

Decide whether you want to engage or assess your students. Then, create an activity in seconds, aligned with learning objectives.

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4

Share with Students

Generate a link, share it with your students, and watch them jump in instantly.

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5

Monitor Student Engagement

See how students interact with the activity live and track their engagement in real time.

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Teachers Build Safe, AI-Powered Activities

Make Any Resource Engaging

Pick from activities like Debate, Tutor, and Character Chat to get students talking, thinking, and really diving into the material.

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Assess Understanding Quickly

With activities like Pulse Checks and Exit Tickets, you’ll know right away if students are getting it or need a little extra help.

Reflect on Learning (coming soon)

Soon, you'll be able to create Reflect activities like Self Reflections and Goal Setting to help students pause, think about what they’ve learned, and track their own progress.

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Student Feedback with the Boost Chrome Extension

Exclusively Part of Brisk's Schools and Districts Plan

The Boost Chrome extension lets students review their essays and get instant, detailed feedback directly in their Google Docs – all within the class period. It’s a powerful way for them to improve their writing in real time.

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Resources

Brisk Boost Professional Development

Brisk AI
Literacy Deck
ACCESS THE AI Literacy DECK HERE

Brisk PD Deck

ACCESS THE FULL PD DECK HERE
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Brisk Boost Letter to Families

(Optional) Share this letter with families to let them know you'll be using Brisk Boost with students this year.

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Hear from Students and Educators

Brisk Boost enhances the lessons you're already teaching, making learning more engaging and impactful. No need to reinvent the wheel, just elevate what you already do.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why did Brisk create Brisk Boost?
Brisk Boost was created to harness the power of AI to enhance student engagement and learning.
With Boost, we hope to help teachers:
  • Engage Students: Use AI to create interactive and responsive learning experiences.
  • Assess Students: Provide real-time assessments to track progress and identify areas for improvement.
  • Promote AI Literacy: Help students develop a deeper understanding of AI and its applications.
What is the value of learning objectives and giving students visibility into their learning objective progress?
Making learning objectives visible to students gives them some ownership of their learning. The purpose of the activity and the knowledge and skills they need to demonstrate are clear to the learner.
What grade level and subject areas is Boost best designed for?
Because students need to be able to read for learning and have fine motor skills for keyboarding, Boost is most appropriate for any subject area in grades 4-university.
How can I ensure Brisk Boost is safe for my students?
Teachers have visibility into all student chats with Brisk Boost, and students can only access Boost via a direct link from their teacher. Additionally, Brisk flags student chats that include profanity, insults, and violence to teachers.
How do I get the student facing extension for feedback?
The student facing extension is part of the Brisk for Schools & Districts plan.
As a teacher, how do I boost a resource to students?
  • From a website, Google doc, Google slide deck, or Google form, open the Brisk chrome extension.
  • Click Boost student activity.
  • Select an activity for your student
  • Select language, grade level, and (optionally, for Brisk for Schools & Districts) standards.
  • Click Create Activity.
  • Review the Learning Objectives and Role, and modify as needed. Click Preview.
  • Preview and adjust the student view as needed.
  • To share the activity with students, click Share. If sharing a Google resource, make sure you have adjusted permissions on the Google resource.
  • Select the class that you want to share with and click Share.

  • Share the activity in 2 ways:

    1. Have students go to boost.show and type in the activity code.
    2. Share the full activity link with students via email or Google Classroom.
How do students engage with Boost?
  • Paste the link your teacher shared into a browser window
  • Boost will ask you questions in the chat. Answer Boost’s questions or ask Boost for help if you’re stuck.
  • As you answer Boost’s questions, you’ll see your Learning Objective Progress.
  • Once you have completed all Learning Objectives, you’re done!
How do I know when students have completed the boosted activity?
Each activity has a progress page, where teachers can see each student’s progress against objectives.
How can I tell if my student is engaging inappropriately?
Making learning objectives visible to students gives them some ownership of their learning. The purpose of the activity and the knowledge and skills they need to demonstrate are clear to the learner.
  • As a teacher you can see all of your students’ conversations with Boost.
  • From an activity that you have assigned to students, click “View” next to the student whose chat you want to view.
  • From there, you can see your student’s chat history with Boost.
My students didn’t finish their work. Can Brisk Boost save in progress conversations?
Yes! Boost saves progress in conversations if they are signed in with their email. With emailless login, students could lose their work if they don’t stay signed into Boost on the same device. 
My students don’t have Google emails. How can they use Boost?
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  • When you share your activity’s link, students can enter their name to get access to the activity. They won’t be able to log back in to see their work once they exit the activity.
  • Even if students don't have a Google email, they can sign into Boost using their email address. The first time students join your class, they will enter their email address and receive an email to verify their account.
  • If you'd prefer for students to not use email to sign in: When you share your activity’s link, students can enter their name to join the activity. They will need to stay logged in on the same device in order to return to the activity or see any past work. Signing out or switching devices will start a new session.
Is there a way for the teacher to add students to the class before sharing an activity link?
Not at the moment! Teachers always need to share a link to enroll students.
Brisk Boost isn’t working for me…what should I try?
a. The learning objectives and chat don’t match the content of the resource I’m using:
  • YouTube – make sure the video has a thorough transcript (you can click Show Transcript in the video description). If it doesn’t try picking another video on the topic.
  • Web page – see if you can create other resources about this web page with Brisk. If not, there may be some technical issues with our ability to read the website. Please report a bug.
  • PDF – not available yet! We’ll add the ability to Boost a PDF soon :).
  • Google Docs should always be a safe option, so you can copy and paste any material or write a quick blurb on a topic in a Google Doc and Boost from there.
b. I don’t know how to get back to Brisk Boost
  • Open the Brisk Teaching extension
  • Click “Boost student activity”
  • Click My Activities to see all of your Boost activities (you can also bookmark this page https://app.briskteaching.com/teacher_home
  • Click Open next to an activity to monitor the activity name
c. I want to turn off the ability for a student/class to interact with this activity
For a class:
  • Open up an activity
  • Click the Pause button at the top of the activity page
  • Or, click the pause icon next to an activity name on the My Activities page
For a student:
  • Open up an activity
  • Click the pause icon next to a student’s name
d. I don’t want students to see the learning objectives
  • On the Preview step, uncheck the learning objectives checkbox.
  • On the activity page, you can click the pencil icon to go back to the Preview step. There, you can uncheck the learning objectives checkbox.
e. I want to create a closed note check for understanding and don’t want students seeing the resource I Boosted
  • On the Preview step, uncheck the Source checkbox. 
  • On the activity page, you can click the pencil icon to go back to the Preview step. There, you can uncheck the Source checkbox.
How can my students use Boost to get feedback on their work? I thought that’s what Brisk Boost is?
Brisk Boost is Brisk’s student-facing product! It will offer many student-facing features. Our September launch is an AI chat companion where students engage in learning activities and show what they know on various topics. Later in the fall, we will launch a student Chrome extension where students can get feedback on their work. This feature is only available on our Brisk for Schools & Districts plan.

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