It's a big day in the TutorBird office! Today we’re launching an opt-in beta version of our new Student Portal - complete with an updated and modern interface. The new Student Portal is functionally identical to the current Student Portal, but is rebuilt using significantly newer technology that opens the door to exciting possibilities in [...]
Let your tutoring business take flight! We are so excited to announce that My School Books will be changing its name to TutorBird in the coming weeks! Over the past few months, we have been working tirelessly to create a new brand identity that would accurately represent who we are and what we [...]
If you’re using a custom domain name with TutorBird and you don’t yet have a SSL certificate, it’s time to update your domain configuration (it’s easy and free). We’ll be sending an email to anyone who needs to update their domain configuration. If you're already using TutorBird to host your website, you're A-OK and don't need to [...]
Improving the Sign-Up Widget: If you’re using the new Sign-Up widget with a Policy Agreement field, any links to the policy itself should now work correctly. For those using the old Sign-Up widget, the Policy Agreement should put something more user friendly in the student note field. If you have a statement (something like "I [...]
When you create invoices in bulk, TutorBird will now display a progress bar! It makes it easy to see how many are completed and how many are left to go. This should also resolve page time-out issues that some schools were experiencing when manually generating large numbers of invoices. Other Improvements This Week: We fixed [...]
The embedded video/audio player in the Media Library now has the ability to loop specific ranges. This allows students to repeat specific sections for study without having to manually rewind the track each time. Other Updates: Receipt emails now include an attached PDF receipt. The receipt shows your school address, the amount received (or refunded) [...]
Press the big red button! No, not that button, the other button! This is 100% not how development works at all. Anyway! We made some changes to the registration widget this week, and now it can do more things: Update an existing student in the system with a new phone number and/or address Change an [...]
Hey, Everyone! We've been working really hard to improve the mobile experience of TutorBird lately. This week we're excited to introduce a new mobile layout for all tables used on the site. We think this will really improve the user experience across mobile devices. While we are working hard to improve the mobile experience, we [...]
Hi Everyone! Don't worry, we're still here! We've been hard at work improving the overall performance of the application as well as fixing up some minor issues. Updates: New students can now be added to existing families on the Waiting List (and existing students can also be merged with families on the Waiting List). We've [...]
We are continuously striving to improve the user experience of TutorBird! Check out this week's improvements below. Just a heads up, for the remainder of the summer we'll be focusing on internal changes to improve overall performance. During this time, we will not be posting our regular weekly updates as frequently. Don't worry though! Regular [...]