What’s New with TutorBird

October Bits and Bytes

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We updated the “Attendance” pop-up so that the “Print” button (for printing lesson notes) is now located in the pop-up footer. This saves some vertical screen space and looks a bit tidier. The “Attendance” pop-up will now appear larger on desktops …

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Invoices For Everyone

Hi Everyone, Today we’re introducing a highly requested feature: The ability to automatically send invoices to both parents at once. On the “Family” tab in Student Details, you’ll see a new check box for each parent labelled “Preferred Invoice Recipient“. If you turn that option on for one parent, they become …

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Barrel Of Updates

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a huge set of updates that we’re introducing to TutorBird. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We were hard at work all summer long rebuilding the way websites are created in TutorBird. While your current website looks the same on the surface, the …

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Attendance History and More!

Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: The pop-up on the Student Portal calendar now places itself dynamically, so if you leave long lesson notes the student can scroll down to read them all. We’ve added a BlackBerry shortcut to the calendar “Sync” button. We’ve updated the Student …

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Upcoming Changes to PayPal

Hi Everyone, If you’re using TutorBird with your PayPal account, you may have received an email from PayPal with the subject “IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED: PayPal service upgrades.“. This email explains that PayPal will be upgrading their systems at the end of the month (or possibly sooner) and you may need …

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Back To School

Hello Everyone, We just wanted to wish all teachers and students returning to school today good luck and have a great year! As mentioned last week there is no scheduled update today. Have a great week! – The TutorBird Team Did you know? You can quickly reset student make-up credits …

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August Bits and Bytes

Hi Everyone, This week’s update consists of a number of smaller changes and improvements to the site. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We’ve added an option to “My Preferences” that allows you to copy last week’s attendance notes to the current lesson automatically. (A “*” is automatically added …

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Payroll Improvements

Hi Everyone, This week we’re rolling out a number of changes to TutorBird based on your feedback. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: We’ve added the ability to customize the SMS Reminders from the “School Settings” page on the “Messaging” tab. You’ll see a new section labelled “System SMS …

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Student (and Teacher) Attachments

Hi Everyone, This week we’re rolling out a number of improvements to TutorBird. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: You can now add file attachments to a student on their “Student Details” page (and Teacher Details in multi-teacher schools). This is helpful for keeping private documents associated with a student, such …

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Weekly Update Postponed

Hello everyone, This week’s regularly scheduled update for Monday August 17, 2015 has been postponed until Tuesday August 18, 2015. Sorry for any inconvenience. Sincerely, – The TutorBird Team