What’s New with TutorBird

Tech Tune-Up

Hello Everyone, Here’s what’s new and improved this week: The “Thank You” message on the Sign-Up widget no longer cuts off the last line of text. The birthday reminder on the “Agenda” now only shows if the birthday is coming up in the next 7 days (instead of 14). On …

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Student and Teacher Profile Images

Hi Everyone, This week we’ve got a nice hefty list of changes, improvements, and additions to TutorBird. We’re also excited to announce we’ve added the ability to upload Student and Teacher profile pictures to TutorBird. You can add these from the “Student Details” page, the “My Preferences” page, and the “Teacher …

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Thanksgiving Day Holiday

Hi everyone, It’s “Time For Turkey”! Due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday here in Canada on Monday, October 12, 2015 there will be no regularly scheduled software update this week. The great news is we will be open on the American Thanksgiving – The TutorBird Team

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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