All in the Family

Hi Everyone! We’ve made some great improvements to family contacts that we know you’ll love!

• We’ve added the ability to have more than 2 parents per family. Now you can add as many parents/contacts as the modern family requires.
• The « Families & Accounts » page no longer lists « Primary » and « Secondary » family contacts; these have been merged into a single field (that will show all the parent contact info for as many parents as that family has).
• On touch devices, the calendar popup menu will no longer ‘click’ one of the menu items if the popup menu appears under your click area (this affected devices with smaller screens).
• There’s a new setting under « Studio Settings -> Messaging » that allows your Lesson Notes to be sent from the studio email address (rather than the teacher’s).
• We’ve enhanced the notes provided in the email that is sent to the teacher when a lesson is cancelled by the student through the Student Portal.
• The payments listed on the « Recent Payments » tab of the Families & Invoices page can now be sorted.

Student Portal Changes:

• There are two new options for the Student Portal available under « Studio Settings -> General« . They are:
  • Initial Page – This option allows you to change the default page when students first log in from the Calendar to the Studio News page.
  • Initial Calendar View – This option allows you to change the preferred calendar mode for your students from Monthly to Week or Day view.
• Student Names are now displayed directly on the calendar. For families with multiple students this should make it easier to read the calendar.
• No more « I didn’t knows »: When cancelling a lesson with less notice that required by your cancellation policy, there’s a new checkbox the student/parent must check off acknowledging the time before the lesson can be cancelled.
• For studios that teach lessons in multiple timezones: When students join a series of lessons online, the popup window now displays the lesson times in the student’s timezone.

Did you know? The calendar now displays a notification when the filter is active (so you can more easily tell when you’re viewing a filtered version of your calendar).