Here’s the list of this week’s updates:
- We’ve made a minor update to the look and feel of TutorBird; the page header and logo when logged into the site has been refreshed.
- On the student sign-up page/widget the “Gender” field (if enabled) is now displayed directly below the student information, rather than following the parent contact information.
- In the student portal, students can now edit their Skype username.
- We updated the behavior of the Recaptcha box on the contact/sign-up forms of TutorBird hosted websites to eliminate a “flicker” when the page loads.
- On TutorBird hosted websites the menu system has been adjusted so that it works better on mobile devices.
- If your school “Region” is set to Malaysia, the currency (and tax) are now displayed with 2 decimal places.
- The “Invoice Details” report (available from the “Download” button on the “Families & Invoices” page) now includes the family’s address.
- It’s no longer necessary to use the checkboxes to download the “Invoice Details“. If no invoices are manually selected, all invoices are included in the download. (Additionally, if you’re using the “Search” feature to limit the invoices that are displayed, only the search results will be included in the download which makes it easy to download all the invoice details for a specific month, even if you have more than 25 families.)
- We fixed an issue with the “Email History” feature which would cause extra blank lines to be inserted into the archived emails.
Did you know? The “Income and Expense” report has been updated so that you can now group by “Payment Type“. This option is only available when the report is run in “Cash” mode.
Please note: If you require technical assistance please contact our support team at support@tutorbird.com.
Hi A few Quick Questions:
Now that I have been using MSB for awhile, I have a few questions:
Is there a way to “see” or be notified if a parent has activated their Portal access? If not, you may want to consider adding that as an option so that teachers can know which parents might need assistance and follow up with them.
Also, will a secondary parent also receive the lesson notes? I am really wanting the student’s teacher to also receive the lesson notes and was thinking of putting the teacher’s email in the secondary parent slot.
If there is no comment to be added to the child does the Note to Child need to appear? It would be nice if only the field where a note is added is shown in the email.
Hi Sommer, thank you for reaching out to us!
When you are viewing your student list, there is an purple button that says “Visible Columns”. If you click that, you can select to view “Last Login” and this will show you if the parent has been using the Portal.
Yes, the secondary parent also receives lesson notes if the “Send Reminder Emails” option is checked off in the family details. If you have multiple teachers, you might want to look into upgrading to a multi-teacher account. It is only $3.95 per each additional teacher.
For transparency reasons, the “Note to Child” is always sent with parent notes. So even if there are no notes for the child, the email will still show that field so that the parent is aware that there were no notes left for the child.
For all other questions and feedback, please contact us at support@tutorbird.com