Superpowers on Teacher Hive are optional add-ons and features. Superpowers let your apps do things that plain HTML cannot, like generate or analyze with AI, send an email to your inbox, store responses online, or share a global leaderboard.
You only turn on the Superpowers an app needs. A spelling quiz that just shows words to students needs no Superpowers. A tutoring assistant that gives feedback uses the AI Superpower. A parent suggestion box app uses the Email Superpower. Most apps use one Superpower; some apps stack two or three.
The Superpowers
- AI Superpower, generate text or images on demand. Use your own AI key from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google to power tutoring feedback, story starters, reading-level checks, image generators, and classifiers, or have each guest bring their own key. Open to Hive Builders and Hive Pro. Read more.
- Connected Superpower,apps that save and load data on Teacher Hive servers, so the app shares the same data across everyone who opens it. Build leaderboards, polls, collaborative writing, submission boxes, shared whiteboards. Open to Hive Builders and Hive Pro. Read more.
- Email Superpower, your app can send messages straight to your inbox. Build quiz result digests, parent update forms, exit ticket reports, and suggestion box submissions. Hive Pro. Read more.
- Short Link Superpower, your app can turn long URLs into short, friendlylink.apphive.us links that are easy to type, write on a board, or hear read aloud.Hive Pro. Read more.
- File Locker Superpower, upload files and copy the URLs to use within your app. Images, PDFs, audio, video, slide decks, datasets. Open to Hive Builders and Hive Pro. Read more.
- Stats Superpower, see visit counts on your My Apps page and a view a dedicated Stats page for most viewed and bookmarked apps along with other analytics. Hive Pro. Read more.
How you turn one on
Open the Edit App form on any app you own. Each Superpower has its own section with a toggle. Flip the toggle and the section expands to show the controls you need to configure. Save the app and the Superpower is live.
If you ever change your mind, just flip the toggle off. Your app keeps working, the Superpower just goes quiet.
Stacking Superpowers
You can turn on more than one Superpower at a time. A tutoring app might use the AI Superpower (to give feedback) plus the Email Superpower (to send student progress to you each week).
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.
