Almanack vs Brisk Teaching

Almanack is a web platform for educators planning curriculum lessons and classroom resources across subjects, grade levels, and languages. Teachers can adjust a lesson’s reading level, topic, content, and pacing while keeping the unit structure intact. It can create below-grade, above-grade, ELL, and IEP versions aligned to the same standards, and generate assessments tied to standards, letter grades, and curriculum units with gradebook-ready artifacts. The free plan costs nothing and includes standards-aligned lesson planning, curriculum design, a lesson and unit planner, slides, basic worksheets and activities, quizzes and assessments, educational games, and custom video recommendations. Almanack lists integrations including Google Classroom, Google Forms, Kahoot, GimKit, Blooket, Wayground, Quizlet, Google Slides, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF. Its Google Classroom integration can import courses, publish lessons as assignments, and display classwork in Almanack course pages. School and district users can sign in through Google, Microsoft Entra ID, Clever, or ClassLink, depending on district configuration.

Brisk Teaching helps educators create materials, give feedback, and adapt instruction within tools they already use. Its tools cover lesson and unit planning, practice tests, guided notes, translation, feedback, and student learning activities. Brisk Boost can turn articles, YouTube videos, Google Docs, and PDFs into student activities, with settings for grade level, language, guardrails, and learning objectives. The service is available on the web and as a browser extension supported by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Listed integrations and supported tools include Google Docs, Slides, Forms, Classroom, YouTube, Microsoft tools, Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Kahoot!, and Nearpod. The Free plan includes 20+ tools, and new sign-ups receive 14 days of Premium access. Premium and Intelligence customers receive customer success support, onboarding, and professional learning; Intelligence also includes white-glove curriculum setup. Brisk says it does not sell or share personal data or use student or teacher data to train AI models. It also reports SOC 2 Type II compliance and encryption in transit and at rest. AI-generated math content has limitations the company says it is working to improve.