LearningFlow LearningFlow vs Brisk Teaching
Brisk Teaching sits in the browser and works on the document already on screen, which is why teachers adopt it without being asked twice. LearningFlow is not an overlay but a workspace the school owns, where the tools, the files, the video, the apps and the class data sit behind one login.
Education AI · Sources last read 13 September 2026
Choose Brisk Teaching if
You want AI in every classroom this term, with no migration and almost no training.
- Your staff live in Google Docs, OneDrive and Canvas SpeedGrader all day
- Procurement wants SOC 2 Type II, 1EdTech privacy certification and a Common Sense rating first
- You roster through ClassLink, an API feed or a OneRoster file and want classes in place on day one
Choose LearningFlow if
The school has to keep the work, and what comes back is often a spreadsheet, a video or a small app.
- A head of department leaves in July and the schemes of work must stay behind
- You need a marked spreadsheet with working formulas, not a link to a Google Doc
- One librarian may run the tools, and only two staff may build apps over student data
Where the two are built differently.
One part of the job, done well.
This is a good product at what it does. The question for a school is what else is on the invoice: each remaining job is another product, another bill, another set of logins, and a handover you do by hand every time.
Idea to a class that has done it.
One login, one pool of credits, one place the spending shows up. A video drops into a lesson, the lesson becomes an assignment, the assignment writes to a base and an app reads it — nothing is exported and re-imported.
What each one does.
Written from each product's own documentation. Where something is true only on a higher tier, the row says so.
| Brisk Teaching | LearningFlow | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the work | The teacher. Creations save to their own Drive or OneDrive, and a teacher taken off the roster keeps them. | The organisation. Removing a member deletes their membership row, not the lesson, the flow or the base. |
| What comes back | A link to a live Google Doc, Slides deck or Form, plus a Canvas QTI quiz as a .zip on the schools and districts plan. | A file you can open offline. A .xlsx with working formulas, a .pptx, a .docx, an .mp4. |
| Choosing the model | Not a setting. Free runs Standard models and paid tiers run Turbo, and no page says which model sits behind either label. | Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek among others, with no plan gate on the list. |
| Running it yourself | No developer portal, no API reference, no self-serve keys and no webhooks in the public documentation. | Post a task id with an API key, stream the reply back, and read the credits it spent. |
| Student accounts | Students open an activity from a link, code or QR, and a class can be set to name only. | Students are a user type with their own account, join code and assignments. |
| Records you keep | Activity reports stay inside Brisk, with no export to an LRS. Its help centre says progress history for a removed rostered class becomes inaccessible to the teacher, and that the data is being archived from the 2026 back to school season. | xAPI statements into a self-hosted LRS, or into the LRS the organisation already runs. |
| Inside the open document | The extension works on the Google Doc, OneDrive file, PDF or SpeedGrader submission already on screen. | A workspace you open in its own tab. There is no browser extension. |
| Launching from the LMS | An LTI 1.3 integration with Canvas and Schoology is documented for administrators. | A deep-link flow. Work launches from Moodle, with no LTI certification behind it. |
A role, not a set of switches.
Everyone inside gets the product. If a feature is not right for a group — thirteen-year-olds, or a department mid-pilot — the answer is to not give them an account at all.
Seven switches, per group.
Year 7 opens the library and can chat. They cannot build apps or reach the database. Change your mind at 9am and it is different at 9.01, for that group only — without removing anyone's account.
What comes with it here.
A narrated video from a sentence
One sentence becomes an MP4 with a voice track, in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, subtitles burned in or sent as a separate .srt.
A spreadsheet that still calculates
The agent works on a real Linux machine with python and LibreOffice, so the .xlsx it hands back has formulas that recalculate.
Apps over your own tables
Several apps can share one base, each with its own contract naming the tables, the columns, the rows it may see and the date it expires.
The tool that is not in the gallery
Fifty-nine tools are published and ready, and the canvas behind them builds the sixtieth, refusing a connection that would not work.
Where Brisk Teaching is the better choice
A district that wants AI in front of every teacher this term should buy Brisk. The extension works on the document already open in Google Docs, Word or Canvas SpeedGrader, so there is no migration, no new login habit and very little training to fund. It arrives with the paperwork a schools buyer asks for, including SOC 2 Type II, 1EdTech Data Privacy Certification and OneRoster 1.1 and 1.2 rostering through ClassLink, an API feed or an SFTP drop. Its free forever teacher plan is also hard to argue with. Brisk advertises more than thirty tools, over twenty of them on the free plan and more than thirty-five on Schools and Districts. They run on the page the teacher is already looking at, which ours never do.
The whole stack against Brisk Teaching.
The table above compares the two at the job they share. This one runs every capability past both, because what a school is choosing between is usually a tool that does one job and a workspace that does many. Hover any mark to see what it means, and a partial one to see exactly what is limited.
| LearningFlow | Brisk Teaching | |
|---|---|---|
| Ask and read | ||
| Chat with AI | ||
| Research the web and write it up | ||
| Read text off an image or a scan | ||
| Agent browses the live web | ||
| Make | ||
| PowerPoint deck | ||
| Spreadsheet with working formulas | ||
| Word document | ||
| Image generation | ||
| Video generation | ||
| Narrated whiteboard video, corrected scene by scene | ||
| Voice-over | ||
| Song generation | ||
| Interactive web page | ||
| Edit what it made, online | ||
| Slide and design templates | ||
| Presenter on camera, from a photo you supply | ||
| Teach | ||
| Ready-made teacher tools | ||
| Build your own tool, no code | ||
| Lesson that branches on the answer | ||
| Hears them read aloud, checks pronunciation | ||
| Assign to a class with a join code | ||
| Assignments and submissions | ||
| Student accounts | ||
| LTI link from your LMS | ||
| Learning records to your own LRS | ||
| SCORM 1.2 package out | ||
| Build | ||
| Working app | ||
| Full working platform templates | ||
| Several apps over one database, rights each | ||
| App sends email or WhatsApp | ||
| App runs on a schedule | ||
| App accepts webhooks | ||
| Generate real-time apps | ||
| Generate AI-driven apps | ||
| Shared database | ||
| Revoke one app's access, not the others | ||
| Run | ||
| Run any tool from your own software | ||
| Choose the AI model, on every plan | ||
| Switch a feature off per group | ||
| Organisation keeps the work when staff leave | ||
| We do not do this | ||
| Transcribe a video or audio file | ||
| Custom domain for a published app | ||
Before they decide.
If a teacher leaves in July, do we keep what they made?
Not with Brisk. Its help centre says a teacher removed from the roster moves to the free Educator plan, and that the documents, presentations and forms they generated stay in their own Google Drive or OneDrive and their Brisk library. In LearningFlow the organisation id is stamped when the object is created and never moves. Removing the member deletes their membership row, and an administrator can list org-library tools whose owner has gone and hand them to someone else.
Can we run both, and what does moving across involve?
Running both is reasonable. Keep the extension for feedback written straight onto a Google Doc, and keep in LearningFlow the material the school must still have next September. There is no importer between them. Brisk creations live in the teacher's own Drive or OneDrive, so moving means copying those documents over, and Brisk says progress history for a removed rostered class becomes inaccessible to the teacher, though its help centre describes archiving that data from the 2026 back to school season.
What does Brisk cost?
Brisk publishes no paid price. On 13 September 2026 its plans page listed Free at $0 per teacher and both Premium and Intelligence as custom pricing, billed per student enrolment rather than per teacher seat. There is also Educator Pro, the paid upgrade for a single teacher. It sits on its own page with no figure and no billing period. LearningFlow charges credits rather than seats, with no subscription required.
Which model runs, and can we choose it?
In Brisk you cannot choose, and no model is named. The plans table lists Standard language models on Free and Turbo on both paid tiers, and its security page says only that Brisk uses a range of large language models, with the vendors listed on a separate service provider page. In LearningFlow the model list is not conditioned on any plan or seat. Flow Designer reaches Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek among others, and the only gate is an administrator override for the organisation.
Can students take part without a school email address?
Both allow it, differently. Brisk students open an activity at a share link, QR code or class code, and a teacher can set a class to name only, though Brisk warns those students can lose their work and cannot be enrolled in advance unless the district uses rostering. In LearningFlow a student is a user type with an account, a join code and assignments attached to it, so the record of what they did belongs to the school.
Where this came from. Read on 13 September 2026. Brisk Teaching changes its product and its prices without telling us, so check anything that decides a purchase.
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