Release Notes & Business Tips

Thank you to all those that have already volunteered to test out securing hosting over HTTPS! We now have a number of custom domains hosted by TutorBird and secured using HTTPS. We’re still looking for some volunteers! If you currently host your website with TutorBird and use a custom domain, …

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A few months ago we switched all the websites that use “tutorbird.com” subdomains to secure hosting over HTTPS. Those of you using custom domain names were unfortunately left behind… but not anymore! Today we’re excited to announce that we’re beta testing HTTPS for custom domains. If you’d like to help …

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Happy New Year everyone! We hope everyone had a lovely holiday and came back refreshed. We have a positive smorgasbord of updates for all of you, so let’s get to it. A Plethora of Updates: In the website editor, you can now embed a video from your Media Library using …

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In the lead up to the holiday season, we gift you…an update! This week’s update has a little bit of this and little bit of that. Cool new things to get excited about: When you’re adding new students to your school, TutorBird will now warn you if you’re adding a duplicate …

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‘Tis the season of giving! We’re giving you the hard work of our development team… 2 for 1 Bug Fix & New Feature: Last week a few of our users were not able to make partial payments through the Student Portal. That bug has since been fixed. And, if you “Allow …

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This week in exciting news… *drumroll please* We’re launching a brand new feature in Expenses & Other Revenue! You can now add expenses to your school by taking a picture of the receipt. TutorBird will attempt to scan the receipt to capture the price, payee and date… less typing = more …

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If you use make-up credits in your school, you’ll appreciate our new warning message! We added a pop-up message to help prevent teachers from mistakenly deleting events that had make-up credits associated with them. Remember: A student is billed when a make-up credit is issued, so if you remove that …

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In the Download Library we’ve made some highly requested changes: Permissions can now be set using Student Groups (in addition to individual students). This will make it much easier to give new students access to specific files in larger studios (or studios with large Download Libraries). You can set permissions …

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              Look at the cute little ghost. He thinks our updates are pretty Boo!-ring too. But don’t worry, that just means we’re cleaning things up in the back end to make TutorBird run more smoothly! This week’s updates: On the Family Account Details page, …

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Soar like this majestic eagle with TutorBird! There are a lot of bug fixes this week, thanks to the sharp eyes of our users and their stellar communication skills! Thanks to everyone who wrote in with detailed descriptions of the issues they were experiencing. New features: When you’re writing notes …

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