Brisk: The Best AI Essay Grader for Teachers to Save Time This School Year

Stop spending your nights & weekends grading student essays! Brisk is here to revolutionize the way you give feedback to your students by saving you hours of invaluable time, increasing productivity, and maximizing student learning. Whether you teach elementary or graduate-level students, Brisk is the BEST AI essay grader to save you time and energy this year! 

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What is Brisk?

Brisk is an AI-powered essay grader that provides instant feedback in just seconds! This FREE Chrome extension fits neatly over your existing tools— no new apps to learn & no added stress! 

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Brisk analyzes and evaluates student essays by providing individualized, constructive feedback for the student. Teachers say the feedback quality is just as good on the 100th essay graded as the first!

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Essay feedback can be given in four different types to best suit grading and student needs: 

• Targeted Feedback
• Glow & Grow
• Rubric Criteria
• Next Steps

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Brisk can grade essays from elementary to graduate levels— making it a must-have tool for all teachers!

How to Use Brisk to Give High-Quality Essay Feedback

Using Brisk is simple and straightforward!

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Follow these 6 simple steps:

1. Install the FREE Brisk Chrome extension
2. Open your student’s essay
3. Click the Brisk icon in the bottom right corner of your screen
4. Select “Feedback” and choose the type of feedback you want
5. Select grade level, add notes (if applicable), choose language then BRISK IT!
6. Make your customized edits and then add the comments to the student’s essay and m

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That’s really it! It can be done in just seconds.

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Each of Brisk’s four feedback types allows you to align it with your rubrics or state standards and share it in 20+ languages.

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*Watch a real-time example of the BEST AI essay grader to see this in action!

A Breakdown of the Four Different Feedback Options

Brisk’s four feedback styles simplify your essay grading and ensure all feedback is both high-quality and personalized. 

1. Targeted Feedback*

With Targeted Feedback, you can instantly create personalized and timely feedback that shows as comments within the document.

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All you need to do is read the feedback and customize it as you like.

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*Targeted Feedback is a premium feature accessible through Brisk Educator Pro.

2. Glow & Grow

Glow & Grow feedback provides a balanced approach to grading by highlighting the strengths of the essay (glow) and suggesting areas for improvement (grow). 

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This feedback option also includes a "Wonderings" section to encourage critical thinking and reflection. Students are prompted to consider additional perspectives or delve deeper into certain aspects of the topic. 

3. Rubric Criteria

The Rubric Criteria feedback feature allows Brisk to provide feedback that is directly linked to the rubric criteria of each assignment. 

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It not only saves you time but also helps students understand how their work aligns with the grading standards.

4. Next Steps

Finally, you can use the Next Steps option to give students clear suggestions and strategies for the next phase of their writing process. This is a great way to give your students a quick confidence boost and encourage them to quickly get back to making their writing even better.

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Glow & Grow, Rubric Criteria, and Next Steps feedback are generated as a table directly at the top of your student’s document for easy reference. 

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With all of these types of feedback, you can edit and further personalize the generated results to better match students’ needs or share as is!

When to Use the BEST AI Essay Grader

Use Brisk when you want to:

• Increase productivity
• Save time
• Maximize student work time

Increase Your Productivity

Brisk’s high-speed generation of high-quality feedback will be invaluable during your late night or weekend grading sessions. Your heightened productivity will help you be a more effective teacher and improve your mental health. 

Save Time

With Brisk, you will reduce the time it takes you to grade student essays from hours to SECONDS!

Maximize Student Work Time in the Classroom

The quick, targeted feedback from Brisk allows students to have something to work on while you are providing 1:1 or small group instruction with other students. Writing time becomes more efficient for the entire class!

Concerns & Benefits of Using AI to Grade Essays

It’s natural to have questions about using an AI essay grader when you’re used to providing all of the feedback on your own, but the benefits of this new technology can’t be overlooked.

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Concerns about AI Essay Graders:

• Can an AI essay grader really provide high-quality feedback?
• Does AI take away the personalized aspect of grading essays?
• Will an AI essay grader take away my control in giving feedback?

Brisk is a Chrome extension, and like any AI-powered tool, it is not perfect or all-encompassing. By utilizing an AI essay grader to give constructive feedback to students, you are not choosing to not read students’ essays or give any input. You are choosing to invest your teaching expertise into differentiation and personalization.

By saving you so much time analyzing student essays for stylistic details, grammar, or spelling, you can provide more valuable feedback because you aren’t overwhelmed by the many standards and rubric details. 

Brisk does the majority of the work for you— about 80% —and the remaining 20% of up to you to fine-tune. Choose what parts of the feedback best fit your desired outcomes for each student, add your voice, reference past conversations you’ve had with students about their writing, and more.

With Brisk, you can trust that you maintain full control over all of your feedback! It stays hidden from students until you’re ready for it to reach them. Because Brisk is directly integrated into your personal Google account, the feedback posts directly from your Google profile. Students see all feedback as coming directly from you.

Having realistic expectations allows you to appreciate the many benefits of Brisk, the BEST AI essay grader for teachers. 

How to Install Brisk

Installing Brisk is a breeze! Follow these simple steps:

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1. Open your Chrome browser and go to the Chrome Web Store.

2. Search for "Brisk" in the search bar.

3. Click on the "Add to Chrome" button next to the Brisk extension.

4. Once the installation is complete, you will see the Brisk icon in the corner of your browser. Click on the icon to activate the extension.

Brisk is truly a game-changer for teachers. You can confidently streamline your teaching and never have to spend hours grading essays again! Brisk will improve your grading experience so by saving valuable time and help your students improve their writing skills through its detailed, high-quality feedback. Install Brisk today and begin to experience the benefits of the best AI essay grader for teachers!

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