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Jul 15, 2026

Tag, You’re It: June Updates  

We’re officially tagging June as a great month! 🎉 Subject Tags are now available to everyone, along with a collection of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and other updates throughout…

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Tutoring Business Tips

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Practical tips for organizing sessions, engaging students, getting paid, and running your tutoring business.

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April showers bring May flowers, and we’ve got a bouquet of updates for you! Our recent upgrades and enhancements:  We upgraded our text editor to a newer, more modern version! It includes all your favorite formatting features, but in a cleaner and more organized layout. Plus, the toolbar is always …

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Don’t think we’ve stopped after our major video platform integrations released in March – we’re still hard at work! This week’s updates may seem small, but they’ll help keep things running smoothly – more time to spend teaching and less stress! Our recent updates & fixes:  To address a recent …

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Last week the team at TutorBird worked hard to deliver a much-requested Skype integration for tutors making the switch to online lessons. This week, we’ve been focusing on two other integrations requested by our members: Zoom and FaceTime! These integrations will allow for seamless online tutoring with TutorBird.

Here’s how to get your business set up for online lessons:

Zoom

Zoom is a popular video conferencing platform that you can use to teach 1:1 lessons and group lessons. First you’ll need to sign up with Zoom if you don’t already have an account. Then, add your Personal Meeting ID to TutorBird. Click here for single tutor business instructions and here for multi-tutor business instructions.

Next, you’ll need to add lessons to your Calendar:

  • Navigate to the “Calendar” from the main menu on the left
  • Click the “Categories” button above the calendar
  • Select the “Locations” tab and click the “Add Location” button
  • Give your new location a name and choose an icon to represent this location
  • Choose the “Zoom Meeting” option
  • When scheduling a lesson, choose the appropriate location from the “Location” drop-down menu

You can begin your Zoom meeting by clicking the location from the event details or from your Home Agenda by clicking the Zoom Meeting button. Students can join the Zoom meeting by clicking the link in the Student Portal Calendar, or the link in their email reminder.

Note: The Zoom Basic plan has a 40-minute time limit on meetings with 3 or more participants.

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Looking to transition into online tutoring temporarily or as a long-term addition to your business offerings? With TutorBird, all aspects of your business can be managed remotely – from any device connected to the internet. The platform has a number of features that will support your students’ learning, and offer tutors and tutoring businesses an all-in-one solution to online tutoring.

Here’s how you can get your business ready for online tutoring:

Live Video Lessons

TutorBird has introduced video integration with Skype, Zoom, and FaceTime to help with the transition to online lessons. See below for instructions on how to get started or view the instructional videos here.

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We’ve been getting so much positive feedback from our recent update, which included a major overhaul to email capabilities within TutorBird. But we haven’t stopped yet! The team has just released some new updates that improve usability throughout the platform. Our latest updates:  When manually emailing an invoice, and Auto …

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Today we’re introducing a major overhaul to the platform’s email capabilities. This update includes a number of highly requested features from TutorBird members, including the ability to schedule an email, forward previously sent emails, and keep a history of messages sent to tutors! Here are our exciting email enhancements:  Find …

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The TutorBird team has spent the first month of 2020 working on improvements to help make things clear. That is to say… we’ve got 20/20 vision! We’ve tweaked some language and fixed some formatting to help you and your families better understand what you’re seeing. Here’s our list of updates: …

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While many people are winding down this time of year in preparation for the holiday season, the TutorBird elves (aka our awesome developers) have been working ’round the clock! You may not notice any major differences at first glance, but this flurry of behind-the-scenes updates will keep TutorBird running smoothly …

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‘Tis the season for some new feature updates! We’ve been keeping our ears open for your feedback around email deliverability and have been continuously monitoring everything we can to make sure your business emails are being successfully received by your families. This week’s update focuses on our new Deliverability Report, which …

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It’s a big day in the TutorBird office! Today we’re launching an opt-in beta version of our new Student Portal – complete with an updated and modern interface. The new Student Portal is functionally identical to the current Student Portal, but is rebuilt using significantly newer technology that opens the …

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