Frequently Asked Questions

Brisk is an easy-to-use Google Chrome extension that integrates time-saving AI directly into the platforms where teachers spend the most time, like Google Docs, Slides, articles, YouTube videos, PDFs, and more. With just a few clicks, Brisk quickly completes tasks that usually take hours, like generating student feedback, differentiating resources, creating instructional materials, and assessing student writing. Trusted by over 600,000 teachers, Brisk is the leading AI-powered Chrome Extension designed specifically for educators, helping them get more done in less time.

Brisk Boost is a dynamic tool that allows teachers to seamlessly "boost" educational materials like articles, videos, and documents directly to students using the Brisk Chrome extension. It offers customizable student interactions such as quizzes, writing coaching, and character chats, tailored to fit specific lesson plans. Additionally, it provides real-time monitoring of student engagement, ensuring a safe and productive learning environment.

Our Privacy Policy provides a full explanation of the type of information we collect and how we use it. Brisk Teaching seeks to access the least amount of data required to provide the highest positive impact we can on teaching and learning. Brisk Teaching considers student data to be confidential and does not use student data for any purpose other than to provide the Brisk Teaching to schools.

Brisk accesses data only where you are using the tool. For example, if you desire to change the reading level of a webpage, Brisk Teaching needs to access the contents of that webpage. If you want Brisk Teaching to provide feedback on student work, Brisk Teaching needs access to the student work.

Protecting student privacy is a top priority. We are signers of the Student Data Privacy Pledge, and comply with all student data privacy laws, including FERPA and COPPA. We have signed the National Data Privacy Agreement with California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, and are open to signing district-level agreements when state-level Data Privacy Agreements are not possible.

We have established robust physical, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to protect the information in Brisk Teaching. These safeguards prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, or improper use of information. Below is a summary of some of the steps Brisk Teaching takes to protect student information:some text

• We restrict access to personal information to authorized Brisk Teaching employees, agents, service providers, or independent contractors who reasonably need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to confidentiality obligations.  Employees and contractors (“Staff”) are subject to discipline if they fail to meet these obligations;
• We require our service providers with which we share Student User personal information to employ industry standard data protection and security protocols;
• We use identification and authentication methods such as multi-factor authentication;
• We employ administrative, physical, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, and use or acquisition by an unauthorized person, including when transmitting and storing such information;
• We employ encryption technologies to securely transmit personal information, including data-in-transit encryption, and we encrypt personal information that is stored;
• We maintain a data backup and recovery capability designed to ensure a timely and accurate restoration of personal information;
• We maintain a secure software development lifecycle with industry standard security practices designed to establish secure application(s), network, and infrastructure architectures;
• We maintain event monitoring and response procedures for events which could impact functionality, security and/or availability of Brisk Teaching;
• We regularly provide Staff training for security incidents and maintain incident response policies, plans and procedures focused on timely and effective incident response.

Brisk Teaching automatically deletes accounts after 18 months of inactivity. If you would like Brisk to delete your data, email privacy@briskteaching.com.

No, user input is not used to train any AI models.

FERPA is a federal law that covers student personal information in the education context and applies to schools. Brisk Teaching provides Brisk Products to Schools as a “School Official” under FERPA, and we work with Schools to help protect personal data from the Student’s educational record, as required by the FERPA.

Brisk Teaching works with service providers to operate and improve Brisk Teaching and Brisk Boost. These trusted vendors help us with a variety of tasks, ranging from web hosting and analytics to software engineering. In order to enable our Service Providers to perform these functions we may need to provide them with access to personally identifiable user (student, educator) information stored in Brisk Teaching systems. For example, we securely store Brisk Teaching and Brisk Boost data in databases managed by Amazon Web Services. For our current list of service providers, please email privacy@briskteaching.com.

We take this type of information sharing extremely seriously and require all the service providers who have access to student personal information to comply with strong privacy and security terms.  Brisk Teaching only enters into agreements with service providers who agree to be contractually bound to, at a minimum, materially similar data protection obligations as are imposed on Brisk Teaching by applicable state and federal laws and contracts.

This Competition is run by Brisk Labs Corp. of 1465 Ravenswood Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024 and Quizziz of 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 403, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

• Eligibility: The EdTech Crocs Giveaway (“Giveaway”) is open only to educators who are legal residents of the United States and Canada and 18 years or older at the time of entry. Employees of Brisk, Quizziz, Seesaw, Canva, and Kami (“Sponsors”), their affiliates, subsidiaries, and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate. This Giveaway is void where prohibited by law.
• Agreement to Rules: By submitting an Entry to the Competition, the entrant (“You”) , agrees to be fully bound by these Terms and Conditions, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. Sponsors’ decisions regarding the Giveaway are final and binding in all respects.
• Entry Period: Entries will be accepted starting from Monday, September 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM EST and will end on Friday, September 27, 2024, at 3:00 PM EST (“Entry Period”). Entries submitted after this time will not be accepted.
• How to Enter: To enter, You must (a) follow all participating companies (Brisk, Quizziz, Seesaw, CanvaEdu, and Kami) on X (formerly known as Twitter), (b) tag a friend in the post promoting the Giveaway, and (c) repost the post. You may enter multiple times by tagging different friends and reposting from multiple companies’ Giveaway posts. There is no limit to how many entries You can submit.
• Winner Selection and Notification: Winners are drawn at random. Each participating company will randomly draw up to 2 winners on Friday, September 27, 2024, by 5:00 PM EST. Winners will be notified via comment and/or direct message on X. You will have 48 hours to respond. If a winner fails to respond within this time frame, a new winner will be selected.
• Prizes: Winners will receive a pair of custom EdTech Crocs valued at $50. Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash. Sponsors reserve the right to substitute a prize with another of equal or greater value. The winners are responsible for any taxes associated with winning.
• Limitations of Liability: By entering, You agree to release and hold harmless the Sponsors, their affiliates, and any advertising or promotional partners from any liability, claim, or damage arising from participation in the Giveaway or acceptance of any prize. Sponsors are not responsible for any technical failures or unauthorized human intervention that may affect entry or winner selection.
• Disqualification: Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to disqualify any entrant who violates these Terms and Conditions or attempts to tamper with the entry process or operation of the Giveaway. This includes anyone found to be using multiple accounts to enter.
• Privacy Policy: Information provided with an entry is subject to the Privacy Policy of the respective Sponsor. By entering, You consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in each Sponsor’s Privacy Policy.
• Rights Granted by You: By entering, You agree that the Sponsors may use your entry, name, social media username, and any likeness in promotional material related to the Giveaway, without any compensation or notice, in any media worldwide.
• Miscellaneous: Sponsors reserve the right to cancel, terminate, or modify the Giveaway if necessary. This Giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with X (Twitter).
• Sponsor Contact: For any questions or inquiries about the Giveaway or to obtain a list of winners, please contact Brisk Teaching at jessica@briskteaching.com or kyle@quizziz.com.

Yes, Brisk is a totally free Chrome extension that you can start using now.

Brisk's Free Forever Plan for Educators includes 20+ free AI-powered tools, designed to maximize efficiency across Google Docs, articles, slides, YouTube, and more. See all of Brisk's AI teacher tools here.

Brisk is launching an extension for learners directly in response to the invaluable feedback and passionate support from educators like you. Your stories of how students have thrived with Brisk's rubric-aligned feedback have inspired us. We've listened to your collective desire for students to engage even more deeply with our tool. Brisk Boost will empower learners and support educators every step of the way.

Brisk Teaching stores user input (e.g., a rubric that a teacher uploads, a curriculum or IEP prompt that a teacher writes) and Brisk-generated responses (e.g., a lesson plan, an IEP, feedback on a student essay). Brisk Teaching does not store data that it processes (e.g., student essay). If a teacher input includes a student name, then Brisk Teaching would store that student’s name on its servers. If Brisk Teaching generated content includes a student’s name, then Brisk Teaching would store that student's name on its servers.

• Let’s take a “create” example:  if a teacher includes student information in a prompt like “Create a letter of recommendation for ‘Student Name’”, Brisk Teaching will store that prompt, and the letter of recommendation that Brisk Teaching generates. Both the prompt and the letter of recommendation would include the student’s name.
• Now let’s look at the feedback tool: a teacher prompts Brisk Teaching to provide targeted feedback on a student’s essay, which includes their name. Brisk Teaching will store the feedback prompt that the teacher writes, and the feedback that Brisk Teaching generates, but not the content of the student’s essay. The feedback could include the student’s name, because their name is typed in their essay.

Brisk Teaching does not own the personal information provided by users who engage with Brisk Teaching. Rather, schools control, and are responsible for, data input into and generated with Brisk Teaching. Read more about content owner rights in our Terms of Use. At any point, schools can request the deletion of data by emailing privacy@briskteaching.com.

Brisk Teaching uses a range of Large Language Models to support different use cases. This way, teachers can get the best of all worlds because Brisk Teaching can figure out which AI model will work best for their task. Boost, Brisk Teaching's learner-facing tool employs a Large Language Model that is hosted by our cloud provider, which ensures additional privacy and security models are in place.

COPPA governs the collection of certain information from children under the age of 13 by commercial websites and online services.

When Brisk Teaching provides Brisk Products on behalf of a school, the school provides consent for Brisk Teaching to collect information from students under the age of 13. In this case: some text

• We collect and process personal data from students under 13 solely at the direction of and under the control of a school, and do not require students to disclose more information than is reasonably necessary to use Brisk Products.
• At all times, schools have the right to request to review or delete the personal data from students under 13 or decline to permit further collection or use of the students’ personal data by contacting the school’s account representative.
• Schools are responsible for providing appropriate notice to parents of the school’s use of third-party service providers such as Brisk Teaching.

When Brisk Teaching provides Brisk Products directly to children under 13 outside of the school context, we require the child’s parent or legal guardian to provide the appropriate consent or authorization for Brisk Teaching to collect the child’s personal data. The parent, legal guardian or school may withdraw consent at any time.

This Giveaway is run by Brisk Labs Corp. of 1465 Ravenswood Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024 (“Brisk”).

Add Brisk to Chrome for Free by heading to https://www.briskteaching.com/.

1. Eligibility

• This Giveaway is only open to current educators who are legal residents of the United States.
• Must be 18 years or older to enter.
• Employees of Brisk and their immediate family members are not eligible to participate.
• Giveaway is void where prohibited by law.

2. Entry Period

• The Giveaway starts October 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM EST and ends on October 30, 2024, at 12:00 PM EST (“Entry Period”).

3. How to Enter
On X (formerly Twitter):

• Add Brisk Teaching to Chrome (it’s free!).
• Follow us @briskteaching.
• Reply to the giveaway post explaining why you want to go to the Eras Tour.
  ‍(Are you the biggest swiftie ever? Are you a hard working teacher who just needs a break? Do your students love Taylor Swift? Let us know!)

• Bonus entries: Tag other educators in the comments and repost this post.
• You can enter multiple times with different replies, comments, and reposts.

Find the X Giveaway Post here.

On Instagram:

• Add Brisk Teaching to Chrome (it’s free!).
• Follow us @briskteaching.
• Comment on the post telling us why you want to attend the Eras Tour.                              (Are you the biggest swiftie ever? Are you a hard working teacher who just needs a break? Do your students love Taylor Swift? Let us know!)
• Reshare the giveaway post to your Instagram Story.
• Bonus entries: Tag other educators in the comments.
• You can enter as many times as you’d like with new comments and Story shares.

Find the Instagram Giveaway Post here.

4. Winner Selection and Notification

• Two winners (one from X and one from Instagram) will be selected.
• Winners will be notified on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 and announced more broadly on Thursday, October 31, 2024.
• We will contact winners through the social media platform where they entered.
• Winners must respond within 6 hours of receiving our message, or a new winner will be selected.
• Winners must have completed all tasks required to enter. We will verify that you have, in fact, added Brisk to Chrome- in addition to all other tasks. 
• Each participant can only win once.

5. Prizes

• Each winner will receive one ticket to Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 2, 2024.
• Brisk will cover the winner’s hotel, flights, and provide a 1-time $200 stipend for food, Ubers, or other expenses.

6. Limitations of Liability

• By entering, you agree to release Brisk from any liability related to the Giveaway, travel, or event.
• Brisk is not responsible for technical issues or unauthorized tampering that affects the entry process.

7. Privacy Policy

• Your entry and personal data will be handled in accordance with Brisk’s Privacy Policy.

8. Rights Granted by Entrants

• By entering, you allow Brisk to use your entry, name, social media username, and any additional content captured before, during, or after the event for promotional purposes related to the Giveaway, without additional compensation or notice.

9. Miscellaneous

• Brisk reserves the right to cancel, modify, or terminate the Giveaway if necessary.
• This Giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by X (Twitter) or Instagram.
• Winners will be asked to create content with Jessica from Brisk before, during, and after the concert. Please do not enter if you’re not willing to be part of our social media videos. 
• The concert is Saturday, November 2 at 7:00 PM. Please don’t enter if you’re not available to attend with 100% certainty. 

10. Sponsor Contact
For questions or a list of winners, email: jessica@briskteaching.com.

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FAQ

1. What if I already have Brisk installed before the giveaway started?
Awesome! You’ve got a head start on entering. 

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2. Can I bring a friend?
Yes! If you win, you can bring a friend, but their expenses (ticket, flights, etc.) will be your responsibility.

Jessica from Brisk will also be at the concert, so it will be a group of 3 Swifties in Indy! You won’t be on your own, kid (if you’re worried about that). 

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3. What does Brisk cover?
Brisk will cover:

• One ticket to the Eras Tour (per winner)
• Hotel and flights (per winner)
• A $200 stipend for food, Ubers, or other expenses (per winner)

• A Brisk employee will be in Indy + at the concert to support the winners / travel with them / help them get situated / capture content.
• Prizes are non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash.

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4. How will I know if I win?
We’ll notify you through X or Instagram, depending on where you entered. Make sure you respond within 6 hours to claim your prize- if you don’t we will choose a different winner!

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5. Can I enter multiple times?
Absolutely! Enter as many times as you’d like with new posts or comments.

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6. What happens if I win on both X and Instagram?
Each person can only win once. If your name is selected twice, we’ll choose another winner for one of the platforms.

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7. Is this open to educators outside the U.S.?
Unfortunately, no. This Giveaway is only open to current educators residing in the United States.

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8. What if I’m a principal? What if I’m a para? Can I enter?

Yes! Anyone whose main job involves working with children in schools is eligible. This includes teachers, principals, aides, support staff, and other education professionals.

Brisk is a robust, free Chrome extension designed for educators. To ensure you fully experience its capabilities, new sign-ups automatically receive 14 days of free access to Brisk Premium. The Brisk Premium subscription is available to schools and districts and offers 10+ additional premium tools, including targeted feedback, student interventions, and alignment with educational standards.  

After 14 days of Brisk Premium, you'll automatically transition to the Free Forever Plan, continuing your access to over 20 essential Brisk tools at no cost. Learn more about our plans here.

Since Brisk Boost will support learners, the team is being very intentional about rolling out the tool gradually to ensure our solution is useful and safe.

To that end, here is our current timeline:
‍Late March: Access for select Partner Districts
1-2 weeks before release: Educators on the waitlist
‍Summer 2024: All Educators

• Brisk Teaching accesses the minimum data necessary in order to provide Brisk products to teachers and students. Brisk does not have access to teachers’ entire Google Drives. Rather, it has permission to "create" / "save" certain items within your Google Drive. This permission allows Brisk to produce teacher-requested content in Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Forms.
• Brisk cannot see any information in Google Drive files or create anything in Google Drive unless a teacher explicitly asks Brisk to give feedback on a file or create a resource through the Chrome Extension.

You can review Brisk Teaching’s Terms of Use here.
You can review Brisk Teaching's Privacy Policy here.

Follow these steps to ensure Brisk is always ready to help:

1. Pin Brisk to Your Chrome Toolbar: After installing Brisk, pin it to your Google Chrome toolbar for easy access. Watch this video to see how to pin Brisk.‍
2. Brisk Automatically Pops Up: Once pinned, Brisk will automatically appear in the bottom right corner of popular platforms like Google Docs, Slides, Web Articles, YouTube, PDFs, and more.‍
3. Manually Trigger Brisk: If Brisk doesn’t appear automatically on the page, you can manually bring it up by clicking the Brisk icon in your Chrome toolbar.‍
4. Still Not Showing Up? Brisk may need help identifying what to react to. Highlight text on the page, and Brisk should appear, ready to assist.

Like Brisk Teaching, we believe that learners and educators should have access to high-quality tools without a cost barrier. Our goal is to offer a robust and free experience for students. The web version of Brisk Boost will be free, while the student-facing Chrome extension will be a premium offering. As we continue to develop Brisk Boost, we will introduce additional features that may be free and also premium.

Brisk Teaching has signed the National Data Privacy Agreement with Arkansas, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. Your district can sign on to your state’s agreement via Exhibit E through the Student Data Privacy Consortium Website (instructions). For districts in the state of New York, we review and sign EdLaw 2d agreements, and have agreements in place with the following Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES): CiTi, Ulster, and Warren Saratoga Washington Hamilton Essex.

If your district is in a state where we do not have a state-level Data Privacy Agreement in place, reach out to privacy@briskteaching.com, and our privacy team will work with you to sign an agreement.

Yes.

Educators can access additional features and tools through Brisk's Educator Pro Plan. Learn more here.

Brisk is a signatory to the Student Privacy Pledge, one of the most robust commitments to Student Data Privacy. Please visit our Privacy Center to learn about the extensive safeguards we have in place to ensure that student work remains secure.

Thank you for supporting your colleagues with Brisk! Check out our Professional Development page for ready-made resources. Also, consider joining our Educator Facebook group to request swag, share experiences, and gain ideas from other educators.

Schedule a demo with us here! If you can't find a time that works for you, email us at partner@briskteaching.com.

Brisk is FERPA compliant and has signed the Student Data Privacy Pledge. Visit our Privacy Center to see our comprehensive privacy policies and practices. Email privacy@briskteaching.com if you have any questions.

This message is automatically generated by Google and appears when installing any Chrome extension. It is not specific to Brisk. Brisk only accesses data, including the websites you visit, when you specifically instruct it to. For example, Brisk will only interact with a site if you click the extension to create a resource or provide feedback. It does not access data when it is simply open in your browser, but isn't being used.

Brisk integrates seamlessly with your daily tools like Google Docs, Slides, Forms, web articles, webpages, and YouTube, saving you hours of work across these platforms.

Brisk also integrates with Google Assignments in LMS platforms like Schoology, Canvas, Blackboard, and Google Classroom. It can generate feedback on assignments submitted through Canvas (using Speedgrader and Google Docs) and Turnitin.

We continue to work on additional integrations, such as Microsoft Teams. If you have a specific integration request, please reach out to us at hello@briskteaching.com.

Yes, you can easily move or hide Brisk whenever you need:

• Show or Hide Brisk: Click the Brisk icon in your Chrome toolbar to make the Brisk Chrome extension either pop up or disappear from your screen.
• Move Brisk: Once Brisk is visible, simply drag the Brisk icon to any spot on your screen where it’s most convenient for you.

Please reference this guide to learn more about using Brisk with Google Assignments in Canvas.

You will need to contact your school IT administrator to allow-list the following on your school domain:

*brisk.education
*briskteaching.com

Your IT department may also need to allow the Brisk Chrome Extension ID: pcblbflgdkdfdjpjifeppkljdnaekohj.

Please click the three safe links below to confirm you can access them:
‍https://api.briskteaching.com/access_check
‍‍https://api.brisk.education/access_check
‍‍https://dns.google
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‍If any of these appear blocked for you, you will need to contact your school IT administrator to unblock them on your schools network.

Fill out this form to get everything needed for IT approval, so you can start using Brisk Teaching.

Your IT approval packet will include:
1. Comprehensive Privacy Policy
2. State-Specific Data Privacy Agreement
3. Source Provider Letter
4. Required IT Configurations

‍Visit our Privacy Center to see our comprehensive privacy policies and practices.

We want to hear from you! Email us at hello@briskteaching.com to get in touch.

Use the 3 dots menu in the Brisk Chrome extension to let us know.

To cancel your Brisk Educator Pro subscription, follow these steps:

1. Open the Brisk Chrome extension.
2. Click the three dots in the top-right corner.
3. Select Manage Plan.
4. Choose Cancel Plan.