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Oct 5, 2026

Fall-ing Into New Updates! 🍂 

We’re welcoming fall with a fresh batch of updates, including improvements to Lesson Packages, Online Resources search, Website Builder, the Student Portal, and dozens of bug fixes and…

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

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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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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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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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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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