What’s New with TutorBird

Mystery Solved!

  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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All in the Family

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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Timezone Road Trip

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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Introducing Substitute Teacher Support (Beta)

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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A Splash of Color

Here’s the list of this week’s updates: We’ve made a minor update to the look and feel of TutorBird; the page header and logo when logged into the site has been refreshed. On the student sign-up page/widget the “Gender” field (if enabled) is now displayed directly below the student information, …

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Milk and “Cookies”

Take a look at this week’s great new features and changes: TutorBird requires cookies to work. If your browser has cookies disabled, TutorBird will now let you know! If you change your website’s domain name in TutorBird, we’ll automatically redirect visitors from your old domain name to the new one. …

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Web Ninja

Here’s this week’s improvements: We made an internal change to improve the performance of the “Student Details” page for large schools. The page load time was reduced from a few seconds to under 1 second. We updated the way email addresses are checked to prevent TutorBird from misidentifying some valid …

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Time Shift

Here’s the list for this week: Added an “Invoice Balance” placeholder (%InvoiceAmount%) to the invoice and invoice reminder email templates. The “Invoice Balance” displays the invoice amount less any payments received since the invoice date. The original invoice will still be attached to the email. When adding a new lesson from …

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Updates to Chant About

Hey Everyone! We have some great additions this week: Teach more, scroll less: When you close a popup window in TutorBird, the page no longer scrolls to the top of the page. The “Recent Payments” tab on the “Families & Invoices” page now displays the payment type in the description (if …

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A Bit of This, a Bit of That

Hi Everyone! Lots of great new changes this week: When cloning a day’s worth of events on the calendar into a future month, the necessary fixed monthly charges are now automatically created. We added a new option to specify a preferred location when you add a new lesson or event. When …

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