Brisk Teaching vs Make My Lesson

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.

Make My Lesson creates curriculum-aligned teaching packs, including lesson plans, presentations, classroom activities, and assessments. Plans can contain standards-aligned objectives, timings, differentiation, and Bloom’s balance. Its presentation stage uses lesson objectives to produce a slide deck calibrated to the lesson’s duration, with speaker notes. Activity materials include a student sheet and teacher answer key; assessment materials include a paper and mark scheme. The service lists 69 curriculum routes across Australia, the UK, Canada, International Baccalaureate, and US/AP, along with 16 teaching methods. Teachers can export PDFs and PowerPoints, download ZIP files, print, or share to Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. Android, iOS, and web platforms are listed. The Free plan includes five generations and requires no card; the listed Monthly plan is $9.99 a month. The pricing note also says paid plans start at $15.99/mo. Unused paid credits expire at the end of the plan period. Lesson inputs are sent to US-based AI providers, which are instructed not to train on them; teachers are advised not to enter identifying student information.