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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, this week we’re introducing a powerful new feature in TutorBird: partial make-up credits. Most of you won’t notice any difference, but if you’re a tutor that teaches varying lesson lengths, this will make your life a little easier (and your tutoring business run more equitably). Partial Make-Up Credits In a …

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Hello everyone, this week we’ve got some minor fixes, tweaks, and improvements to TutorBird as we work on some bigger things behind the scenes (you’re going to love’em). Here’s a list of this week’s changes: Calendar: • We improved the “Day” drop-down header so it now displays correctly in IE in …

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Hello everyone. Due to the “Family Day” statutory holiday here in Ontario Canada on Monday, February 16, 2015 our regular weekly scheduled update will be postponed until Tuesday, February 17, 2015. Happy Family Day everyone! – The TutorBird Team

This week we’ve polished up a number of existing features in TutorBird as well as rolling out some great new additions. We think you’ll agree, TutorBird is all polished up and ready to go! Here’s what’s new and “polished” up this week: Lesson fees and payments received at lessons can …

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Hi Everyone, this week we’re rolling out some improvements to the calendar for multi-tutor/teacher (and single tutor/teacher) accounts. Here’s the rundown: New Calendar Filter We’ve totally redesigned to way the calendar view is filtered. The student/teacher/category drop-down lists are gone, and in it’s place you’ll see a new “Filter” button. …

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Hi Everyone, This week’s update improves upon on some of the email changes we made a few weeks ago. Today we’re rolling out the following enhancements: Now all the System Template and Custom Template emails can be customized with HTML formatting. That means you can change the font, color, bold text, …

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Hello everyone, This week we’ve have made a number of smaller fixes, improvements, and enhancements to TutorBird. Here’s a list of the changes we made: The home page agenda now displays the Event/Lesson location if one is provided. We’ve updated the way event conflict detection works so that it’s a …

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Hello everyone, This week we’re introducing some exciting and highly requested features to TutorBird. Now create your own email templates and have them “your way”. As well as custom email templates, we’re excited to introduce the new scheduling “conflict detection” feature. Never worry about booking 2 students in the same time or place again! …

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To kick off 2015 on a high note we’ve introduced a number of new features, tweaks and improvements to TutorBird. We hope this will make using TutorBird even more enjoyable. Here’s what’s new and improved this week: Blog: We’ve added RSS feeds to teacher blogs. When multiple Blog/News Posts are …

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Hello everyone, From the whole staff at TutorBird we would like to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thank you all for such a great year. We have lots of great stuff planned for 2015, and we look forward to resuming our regular weekly updates in the New Year. – …

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