The Email Superpower lets your app send an email to you (the teacher who built it) when a guest finishes an activity or fills out a form. The guest never enters an email address. Your inbox is the destination, and the address is baked into the app at publish time.
Adding the Email Superpower to your app requires a Pro subscription.
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 with each student's reflection response" 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 student finishes a quiz; you get an email with their score and answers.
- Parent update forms, parents fill out a form; you get a summary email.
- 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 5 PDFs, attached. (5 MB per PDF, 10 MB 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.
Daily cap
Each app has a daily email cap (default 100). The cap prevents a buggy app or a class with a sudden swarm of students from flooding your inbox or eating your monthly email limit. Adjust daily cap and hourly cap in the app's Edit form.
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.
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 teachers so that what their students compose is sent to their own email inbox.
