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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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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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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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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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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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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

Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to introduce a highly requested feature: Automatic Invoicing. Now your staff can work a little bit harder for you by automatically sending out invoices on a weekly, monthly or annual basis. This feature can be enabled from the “Families & Invoices” pages and you …

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Hi Everyone, Here’s what’s new this week: We added a new column to the Student page called “Reminders” that shows if email and/or text reminders are enabled for parents and students. It’s now easier to see at-a-glance who’s getting what. We made it easier to turn text/email reminders on and off …

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Hello Everyone, This week we’re excited to announce that we’re beta testing SMS (Text Message) reminders. This feature is now available in your TutorBird account, and you can enable it from the Calendar page. Click “Event Setup” at the top of the page, and you can enable this feature on …

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Hello Everyone, This week’s update consists of a number of smaller changes and fixes to TutorBird while we work under the hood on some bigger features we know you’re going to love. Stay tuned! Here’s what’s new and improved this week: There’s a new option under School Settings to hide the …

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Hello Everyone, This week we’re happy to introduce another new feature to TutorBird that has been highly requested. We’ve added a new daily agenda email, so now TutorBird can send you a copy of your schedule each day even before you even visit the site. The new daily agenda email feature is …

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