Here are some more things we’ve improved in Music Teacher’s Helper so far this November.
- Send Automatic Event Reminders for specific categories! We improved the automatic event reminder functionality so that now you can specify which categories you want reminders to be sent for. For example, if you only want to have students emailed about group lessons or parties, but you don’t want them to receive an email reminding them of every single lesson, then you can just check those groups. (You can set this option from the “Calendar” -> “Event Reminders” menu)
- Create logins for all of your students at once! If your students register from your studio website, they can create their own login (username and password). But if you add the student yourself, you’re responsible for giving them a username and password. To make this easier for you, we created a page that allows you to check the names of the students you want to give a login to, and Music Teacher’s Helper will email them an auto-generated username and password so they can login. You can create a login for all of your students at once, or for individual students. To access this feature, go to “Students” -> “Student List” -> “Reset Student Logins”
- You can now upload .avi and .wmv movie files to your File Area.
- The Music Teacher’s Helper Blog now has a search feature so you can search through past posts, and find articles related to a certain topic. We also fixed a paging bug on the blog so now if a category or archive (or search query) has more than 10 posts, you can see the next 10, and so on.
- We added a list of our new blog authors to the side bar so you can read about who is blogging and get to know us better.
- We made the “notes” and “private notes” area larger when reconciling events. You’ve always been able to type an unlimited length note, but now you can see more of it at once when you’re doing so.
- We made the “Invoices by Student” list show the invoice numbers and date ranges of the invoice, rather than just start date, so it’s more clear what you’re going to look at.
- The repertoire tracker is now properly showing the “start date” of the piece in the list of pieces a student has in their repertoire.
- Fixed warning message when saving details on a calendar event with no participants.
- Fixed currency symbols so they show properly when viewing an invoice, rather than showing a question mark in Firefox. (£, €, ¥)
As always, thank you for your great comments and feedback! We’re working on a lot more improvements which should be coming soon, and we know you’ll love them.
