The Email Superpower lets your app send an email to you (the teacher who built it) when a guest finishes an activity, fills out a form, or triggered by criteria you set.
Adding the Email Superpower to your app requires a Pro subscription.
The Email Superpower also needs the Connected Superpower, and Teacher Hive switches it on for you. Connected allows your app to save the information needed for email features. If you turn Connected off, Email is automatically disabled.
Your app can email you on a schedule, or when something happens. See Scheduled and triggered email.
How to build an app that emails you
Building an Email-enabled app uses this workflow: you give your AI chatbot Teacher Hive's AI Instructions, then describe the app you want, and the chatbot writes it.
- On your My Apps page, click Add App.
- Open the Email Superpower section and toggle it on.
- Click Copy AI Instructions.
- Paste the instructions into your AI chatbot (Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini).
- Describe your app to the chatbot, including what each email should contain. Be specific: "send me an email when a player completes all levels" or "email me an app usage report after 10 rounds have been played."
- Paste the chatbot's generated HTML back into the Add App form's HTML code field and save.
The AI Instructions tell the chatbot exactly what each email can include and how to assemble it: a subject line you control, a body in plain text or safe HTML (lists, tables, links, inline styles), up to 3 inline photos (auto-resized so phone-camera originals don't burn your quota), and up to 3 PDF attachments (good for certificates and single-page reports).
A note about previews. When your app uses a Superpower, the preview in your AI chatbot (Claude's Canvas, ChatGPT's Canvas, Gemini's Canvas) won't show the Superpower working. The Superpower only connects when the app is hosted on Teacher Hive. Paste the code into the Add App modal and test it on Teacher Hive.
What you can build
- Quiz result digests, a class finishes a quiz; you get an email with a score summary.
- Parent update forms, parents fill in sign up forms; you get a email when all slots are filled.
- Exit ticket reports, end-of-class reflections delivered to you each period.
- Suggestion boxes, students drop anonymous notes; you read them in your inbox.
What the email can include
- Subject line you control (or that the app fills in).
- Formatted text (bold, lists, links) and HTML.
- Up to 3 photos, inline.
- Up to 3 PDFs, attached. 5 MB each, 10 MB in total.
Where the email goes
By default, to the email address you use to log into Teacher Hive. You can pick a different delivery address per app in the Email Superpower section of the Add App modal. Useful if you want quiz results to go to one inbox and parent notes to another.
Sending limits
Each app can send 120 emails a day and 60 in any single hour. Across all of your apps together, you can send 1,000 emails a month.
You can lower the daily and hourly numbers in the app's Edit form.
Emails also use Hive Superpowers Usage. A plain email counts as 5, and one carrying photos or PDFs counts up to 20.
Copyable apps
You can mark an Email-enabled app as copyable. Other Pro teachers can copy it; each copy sends to their inbox. Great for templates you want other teachers to use.
Adding photos
Your app can attach up to 3 photos to an email, 2 MB each and 5 MB in total. Teacher Hive shrinks phone-camera originals for you, so a class snapping pictures will not eat your quota.
Photos have to travel with the email. If your app points at a picture hosted somewhere else on the web, that picture will not appear. Your AI chatbot handles this for you as long as you paste in the Email Superpower AI Instructions. If a photo goes missing from an email, this is almost always why: ask the chatbot to attach the image rather than link to it.
Try it before you rely on it
The Email Superpower section of the Edit form has a Send test email button, so you can check that emails indeed arrive in your inbox. Emails list Teacher Hive as the sender.
How the email is formatted
Emails can carry headings, bold and italic text, lists, tables, links, and colors.
Buttons, forms, videos, and anything interactive will not be included in the email.
Sample Prompt
In addition to posting the Email Superpower AI Instructions into your chat, you need to describe your app and exactly what and when something gets emailed to you. Here's an example for a Classroom Reporter app:
Build a Roving Reporter HTML app where students act like newspaper journalists. Give them a place to jot notes, snap up to three photos during class, and then move to a Compose screen with fields for a headline, byline (reporter name and class period), and a one-paragraph article. When students tap Send, email the headline, byline, article, and photos directly to me, then show a friendly confirmation message that the dispatch was sent successfully.
[Paste the Email Superpower AI Instructions]
The Roving Reporter app can be copied by other Pro teachers so that what their students compose is sent to their own email inbox.
