With improvements to Student Portal booking, website upgrades and a ton of quality-of-life enhancements, we have a lot to share in our July update! Check it out below!

Online Booking

• The home page of the Student Portal now has a “Book a Lesson” button that brings students or parents directly to the booking tab of the calendar
• The Book from Availability form now considers the availability of the lesson’s location when booking from the Student Portal
• We fixed a bug that was allowing the minimum booking time to be set higher than the maximum booking time

Student Portal

• We updated some visual elements on the Student Portal home page for clarity
• If there was previously a login form on your website and it has been removed, the Student Portal login email sent to students now has a generic login link instead of the link field being left blank
• We fixed an issue that was causing the “last login time” of a parent in the Student Portal to display incorrectly
• The selected month now stays consistent when switching back and forth between the Schedule and the Booking calendar in the Student Portal
• We fixed an issue that was causing some rescheduled lessons to display incorrectly on the Student Portal home page summary

Calendar & Attendance

• We improved the logic behind converting a lesson to bookable after all students are absent
• We fixed an issue that was occurring when students attempted to reschedule a lesson (that requires a make-up credit) when they’ve never used make-up credits before
• Editing details for future events no longer overwrites the assignment of substitute tutors
• When taking attendance, a notice about allowable make-up credits now only appears when it’s relevant to the choice selected
• We fixed an issue that was preventing some external calendar feeds from being connected
• We fixed an issue where the formatting bar of in lesson notes was unintentionally remaining in place even when scrolling down

Tutors & Staff

• The Unassign button in the Assign Tutor window no longer appears when assigning a teacher for the first time
• We fixed an issue that was temporarily preventing the search bar on the Tutors & Staff page from functioning correctly

Expenses & Other Revenue

• We improved the way expenses are imported to make the process faster & more efficient
• Expense & Revenue tables now refresh automatically after adding an entry

General/Other

• We fixed an alignment issue with headings in the Website Builder’s call-to-action blocks
• When entering new information into the Lending Library, your progress will now be temporarily saved if you accidentally click away from the window
• Some policy dialogue options in Business Settings have been updated for clarity
• Updating a student record in Zapier now updates the address field as expected
• The several menus throughout TutorBird now display with an improved slide-out interface
• Special characters used in SMS templates now display correctly
• We made updates to various instances of “recurring” settings throughout the application to improve functionality
• Email verification is now required when creating or changing an account email
• Various cosmetic tweaks throughout

Please note: If you have any questions or require assistance with your account, please contact our support team at support@tutorbird.com