What’s New with TutorBird

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait(List)

You can now email students who are on the Wait List or classified as a Lead! We’ve made a small change to the Students > Email page for sending bulk email. The “Show Inactive” students checkbox has been changed to “Show Non-Active Students.” Students on your waiting list no longer …

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Netflix, move over! Streaming Video now on TB!

We’re unleashing a new feature today!  We’ve added the ability to stream certain audio and video types directly from the Download Library. You’ll see a new “Play” button beside the download button that opens the media directly in the browser. Similarly, for images and PDFs, you now have the option …

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The Thin Red Line

You may have noticed yesterday that a little red line and arrow appeared on your Calendar yesterday, particularly if you use the Day/Week/Timeline views. We heard your requests, and now you can easily see where you’re at in your day! Other Updates: On mobile devices, the drop-down menu on the Invoice …

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Summertime and the livin’ is EASY

All the changes we’ve made in the last month altogether! During busy periods, (1st of the month, we’re looking at you…) if your auto-invoices are delayed due to a high volume of invoices being processed at once, we’ve added a message to your account that tells you that your invoices …

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Sorry, I Can’t Make It!

This week, we changed the behavior if you cancel a lesson by setting the attendance to “Tutor Absent”. With this attendance status selected, an SMS/Email Reminder is now automatically sent using the “Event Cancelled” email/SMS template. This ensures that students and parents who use SMS/email reminders will be notified in advance of …

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Solid Foundation

Over the past several months, we’ve made a large number of internal changes to the site to improve page load times across the board. Some of these internal changes are also setting the groundwork for some highly requested features 🙂 This week at MSB: We’ve made some changes to our …

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RemindMe! Email and SMS reminders improved!

We’ve tweaked the Email and SMS reminders so that duplicate reminders are not sent if you entered the parent’s email address (or phone number) in the details of a child student. No more annoying copies sent twice! Our latest improvements: The Revenue and Expense Report has been optimized so that …

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Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer!

In this week’s update, we’ve improved the face detection for profile pictures. It wasn’t acting consistently before, but now when you add or update a profile picture for a student or a teacher, it will automatically center on that person’s face! Other improvements, great and small: The formatting of the …

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This, That and The Other Thing

We’ve got a bit of everything in this week’s update! Changes this week include: When you add a profile picture to a student or teacher and no face is automatically detected in that image, the thumbnail will now be the entire image (cropped as a centered square) instead of defaulting …

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As a unit of measurement, we think “titch” is in metric.

The “Balance Paid/Balance Owing” text and color in the Parent Portal is now consistent with the Teacher Portal. So when parents and adult students sign into the Portal, their “Account & Invoices” page will show “Balance Paid” in green and “Balance Owing” is now shown in red! Optimizing for maximum …

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