Claude Brisk Teaching connectorWhat Claude can do in your Brisk Teaching account.
The Claude Brisk Teaching connector exposes 9 tools: 5 read, 4 write. Claude can build lesson materials and student activities inside your Brisk account, look up standards and check your classes. Below: what it creates, what stays a draft, and what needs Google.
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Why plug Brisk into Claude
Prepping a lesson often means juggling a planning doc, a quiz builder and a standards list in three tabs. With the connector, you describe what your class needs in one sentence, and Claude builds it inside your Brisk account, then hands back the links. The material lands where you already work, ready to edit before any student sees it.
A lesson plan or quiz in your Drive. Ask for a fractions lesson for fifth grade, or a ten-question photosynthesis quiz: create_teaching_resource writes it as a Google Doc or a Google Form and returns the link.
A student activity that waits for you. create_boost_activity sets up an interactive activity, such as a tutor, a debate or an exit ticket, as a draft. Only when you are happy does finalize_boost_activity mark it ready to share.
Materials matched to the right framework. list_standards browses Brisk's standards database by framework, state and grade, so a worksheet can cite real standard codes.
What it won't do: grade student work inside Claude. For batch feedback, Claude only creates the assignment shell; you add submissions and run the feedback in the Brisk web app. It doesn't publish anything to students on its own, and nothing runs on a schedule. Recurring classroom chores belong to an automation tool, a different trade; the Integrations hub gathers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while plugging Brisk into Claude.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can work in it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named job the connector lets Claude do in Brisk. Claude picks the right one from your request; the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The Brisk sign-in screen where you allow Claude the access it will use afterwards. Given once per person, and revocable.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes your account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Brisk.
Connect Brisk Teaching to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Brisk in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Brisk Teaching. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch the connector on before each teacher can link it.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Brisk in the window Brisk opens itself, with the same account you use on the Brisk web app. If the link breaks, Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read Brisk's screen before you allow access. It belongs to Brisk, not Claude, and it sets what the access covers. Access granted here can also be withdrawn later from your Brisk account.
The 9 tools, sorted by what they do
Brisk Teaching gives Claude 9 tools: 5 that read your account, 4 that change something in it.
Five tools look things up, four create or change something in your account. Names stay in English, exactly as Claude shows them.
- 5 read
- 4 write
What Claude reads (5)
5 toolsFive tools that look up ideas, standards, your classes or a material's progress without changing anything.
generate_next_ideas
Suggests a handful of Boost activity ideas for a topic. Nothing is created: you pick one and only then does Claude build it.
list_standards
Browses Brisk's database of academic standards, filtered by framework, state and grade, so a material can reference official codes rather than vague goals.
get_boost_activity
Checks on a Boost activity Claude just started, so it can play back what was built while generation is still running.
get_teacher_context
Reads your class names, grades and subjects to tailor what Claude proposes. Brisk is explicit that it never touches student data.
get_teaching_resource
Looks up a teaching resource Claude has created, so it can report on its progress and show you what came out.
What Claude creates (4)
4 toolsFour tools that create or update material in your Brisk account. No source details a confirmation step for them: the general rule below applies.
create_teaching_resource
Approval: see the ruleProduces a lesson plan, quiz, rubric, worksheet, sub plan or IEP support as a Google Doc or Google Form, and returns its link.
create_boost_activity
Approval: see the ruleBuilds an interactive student activity, a tutor, a quiz-me, a debate or an exit ticket among others, with learning objectives and guardrails, saved as a draft.
create_batch_feedback_assignment
Approval: see the ruleSets up the empty shell of a grading assignment for a whole class set, then gives you a link to it.
finalize_boost_activity
Approval: see the ruleMarks a Boost activity's setup as complete, so it becomes ready to hand out to students.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before any action it takes on an account on your behalf. No source says whether the four Brisk tools that create material have a confirmation of their own.
Brisk builds in its own brakes. Activities start as drafts and are never published to students by creation alone, and the standards Claude finds are checked with you before they are applied. When a grade level is missing, Brisk says Claude will ask rather than guess. On Team and Enterprise, owners decide whether members can let some actions through without being asked, and they can limit what a connector may do for the whole organization. Claude works with your rights and nothing more.
Which plans it's available on
Not one of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. Connector by connector, that answer simply isn't published anywhere.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner switches the connector on for the organization before members can link it. Brisk's own credits are a separate matter, covered in the limits below. For the current state of this connector, check its sheet in the official directory: it is the only page kept up to date, and the one to trust over any blog post.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, and nothing starts when a new term begins or a student submits work.
Everything specific here comes from Brisk: no Claude help article covers this connector. The directory badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic says on every sheet that it doesn't control which tools a publisher exposes or guarantee how they behave. By default, Brisk's tools create drafts and look things up; publishing to students stays a manual step on your side. The same questions are answered, tool by tool, on the Claude agility-cms connector page, for a very different job.
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