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Aug 27, 2026

The Summer of Packages 

User beta testing for our new Lesson Packages feature is in full swing! 🎉 Catch up on the latest TutorBird updates, including a look at what’s included with Lesson…

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David O’Keefe, founder of David O’Keefe Education

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Hi Everyone! This week we’ve made some improvements to make certain features easier to find and more accessible for use. Take a look at this week’s changes: We’ve reorganized the placement of the “Balance Date” button of the Families & Invoices page, and the “Search” button. The “Search” button is …

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  Hi Everyone! As always, we’ve introduced a number of great features and updates this week. Take a look: We’ve updated the Attendance Report so that the date and time are now separated, and the end-time is now included so that you can determine the lesson length. The Lessons Taught …

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Hi Everyone! There’s no theme to this week’s update. We have a variety of different updates available! Here’s what changed this week: If you’re using an iOS device (iPad/iPhone) to sync your calendar, cancelled lessons will now appear shaded with a line through them making them easier to distinguish from lessons …

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Hello Everyone! We’ve introduced a great new social media feature to TutorBird hosted websites. There’s a new option under “Website” to include your social media profiles in your website footer. We’ve added a column to the “News & Blog Posts” page to more easily identify “Sticky” posts. We fixed a …

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Hi Everyone! We’ve added quite a few features to keep you better informed. You can now add “Sticky” posts to your blog and/or school news. Sticky posts always display at the top of the page so that your students can’t miss it. We’ve changed the order of the fields on …

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Hey Everyone! The substitute feature is now available to all multi-teacher schools! We have some more commonly asked questions in the new substitute teacher FAQ category, found here. Take a look at the rest of this week’s updates: – Adult students can now set their profile picture in the Student …

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  Hi Everyone! Excellent changes made to location and teacher availability this week. Take a look! For multi-teacher schools: There’s a new Teacher Availability feature that allows your teacher to indicate the hours that they are available to teach. Once setup, times when the teacher is not available will be “grayed-out” …

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Hi Everyone! We’ve made some great improvements to family contacts that we know you’ll love! We’ve added the ability to have more than 2 parents per family. Now you can add as many parents/contacts as the modern family requires. The “Families & Accounts” page no longer lists “Primary” and “Secondary” family …

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Hey Everyone! We’ve got some great changes this week to help overall usability. The calendar now displays a notification when the filter is active (so you can more easily tell when you’re viewing a filtered version of your calendar). All the “Search” buttons in TutorBird now display in RED when …

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Hi Everyone, This week we’re pleased to announce that we’re beta testing “Substitute Teacher” support for multi-teacher schools. This allows one teacher in your school to fill in for another, without the need to reassign the student to the substitute. We hope that this change will improve the ease of use …

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