You don't need to be technical to run a classroom on MailInApp — it works the same way for a school as it does for any other account. One sign-in for the class or department, teachers invited as team members, students grouped by grade or class as your contact list. What changes is what you send: homework, quizzes, vocabulary practice, and a class-progress view, all built by dragging blocks into the studio.
Setting it up for your classroom
Your account is the classroom. Invite a co-teacher or a substitute from Settings so more than one person can send emails and check on responses without sharing a password. Give a co-teacher full access, or a view-only pass for a substitute who just needs to see what's going on. Your students are a contact list, same as any other MailInApp list, with whatever fields you want to track: grade, class name, homeroom, anything.
The blocks built for a classroom
- Assignment — homework with a due date, an optional point value, and a couple of resource links. The due-date badge always shows the correct countdown no matter when a student opens the email, and a "Mark complete" tap — or a short written answer — records straight into a gradebook view you can check anytime.
- Quiz — the same scored quiz block used elsewhere in MailInApp, dropped into your classroom as-is: write your questions, set a pass threshold, and students get a real results message. No separate setup needed to use it for a graded check.
- Flashcard deck — a flip-card study aid for vocabulary or science terms. Type in the front and the back of each card; students tap to flip. Nothing to record here — it's just a study tool, and where flipping isn't supported, both sides simply show at once.
- Formula — for math and science notation (fractions, exponents, Greek letters) that would otherwise look wrong or garbled in an email. Type it in a simple text format and MailInApp turns it into a crisp image that looks right everywhere.
Need an attendance check-in or a permission-slip RSVP? Reuse the Poll or RSVP blocks already in MailInApp — no new block needed. A "you got it right!" reveal or small reward for a milestone works the same way with Scratch-off or Spin-to-win. Pick "Classroom" as your project purpose and a starter template with these already arrives ready to edit.
Sending to one grade without juggling separate lists
Keep every student, across every grade, on one shared list — then use an audience filter to narrow a send to just "Grade 5," for example, without maintaining a separate list per class. It's the same filter tool covered in Segment your audience, just applied to whatever field your roster already has.
Keeping track of homework and quiz results
Every assignment completion shows up automatically in your Responses dashboard — a simple table of who's done what, on time or late, per assignment, with the option to download it all as a CSV for your own records. Quiz submissions are recorded too, listed per student rather than rolled up into a summary table today. More in Homework & gradebook.
A couple of things worth knowing
Every teacher invited to the account currently sees every project and list under it — there's no way yet to keep one teacher's drafts private from another's. Homework also goes only to the student's own address; there's no separate parent copy sent automatically. Both are real limits today, not something we're hiding.
Getting started
Create a project and pick "Classroom" as the purpose — you'll get a sample Assignment, Quiz, and Flashcard deck already built, ready for you to edit. Add a grade or class field to your student list, then build a quick audience filter for whichever group you're sending to. The Formula block is there too if you need math or science notation.