What’s Happening at MTH

January 27th, 2010 by Brandon Pearce

MTH-HomepageIt’s an exciting time at Music Teacher’s Helper. We hope your year is off to a good start and that your studio is running well.

We’re working hard right now to bring you some awesome improvements to Music Teacher’s Helper, including a brand new graphics design, and several features that we know you’ll love. The new design will look more more up to date than our current site, and will also make the program easier to use, especially for those just starting out.

We’re also giving you a brand new calendar, with a week and day view that actually show the duration of tevents visually (like Google calendar or Outlook), along with the ability to e-mail all students on a given day. These improvements and much more aren’t quite ready yet, but we’re getting closer and will keep you posted to let you know when they’re done.

Here are the recent changes, mostly minor bug fixes, that we have already launched (not related to the new design):

  • Feature: Added better validation to the Student Registration page (on your studio website), and username availability checking.
  • Feature: File Area is now sortable, on the page where you upload the files.
  • Feature: Families Owing Report now sorted by last name.
  • BugFix: Student List Excel Export was missing a column.
  • BugFix: Currency symbols showing properly on PDF invoices.
  • BugFix: Invoices were sometimes pulling the monthly lesson rate as the per lesson rate, for teachers charging monthly.
  • BugFix: The issue some teachers were experiencing with creating pdf invoices is now fixed.
  • BugFix: Student Registration Forms now checks for available usernames properly (once again).

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Brandon Pearce

Brandon Pearce is a piano teacher, choral director, computer programmer, and entrepreneur from Murray, Utah, and is also the creator of Music Teacher's Helper.

As his teaching studio grew, he found it increasingly difficult to keep track of how much each student owed. Having recently received a B.S. in Computer Science from Weber State University, he decided to write a web-based computer ... [Read more]

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  1. Kristin says:

    Thanks Brandon! I’m very excited to see what’s coming – and thanks for fixing those bugs. :)

  2. Thanks for all the terrific work you and the team do to keep MTH the best there is! I’m looking forward to the new improvements, especially the calendar option!

  3. Dave says:

    It is obvious that Brandon’s real interests are in helping teachers, and not just putting up a program on the internet.

  4. Bryan Stuart says:

    I’ll add my thanks as well for providing a tool that makes the “profession” of music teaching that much more professional. Thanks especially to those who so promptly handle my frequent questions.

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