My Music Staff Blog

Fall-ing Into New Updates! 🍂  

We’re welcoming fall with a fresh batch of updates, including improvements to Lesson Packages, Online Resources search, Website Builder, the Student Portal, and dozens of bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements throughout My Music Staff. Check it out below! 

Lesson Packages

  • A student’s Package Balance column will now show a dash (-) when there is no package assigned and a zero (0) when the package balance has been exhausted, to make it easier for admins to distinguish. 
  • Instead of only showing activity 30 days in the future, the Package Activity default date range displays activity 30 days in the past too. 
  • Running « Apply Lesson Prices and Package Time » now also reallocates package time from recently cancelled lessons. 
  • We fixed an issue where package templates couldn’t be updated if an assigned teacher had been made inactive or switched to a non-teaching role. 
  • Fixed an issue where deleted package templates could cause errors on the Student Portal “My Teachers” page. Ghost packages have been shown the door. 

 Student Management

  • We reordered lesson pricing options to make them easier to read and use 
  • Event cancellation emails will no longer be sent twice when a student and parent share the same email address. Inbox peace treaty signed. 
  • Deleted lesson categories will no longer appear in student lesson setting dropdowns. Ghost categories have been escorted out. 
  • The attendance payment method dropdown now includes a clear “Not Specified” option. Mystery option: identified. 
  • Student Portal home now shows the package card based on the student’s billing profile. 
  • In the Student Portal mobile view, the Attendance & Notes column will now display the event date even when collapsed 

Teachers & Staff

  • Added student assignment options into the Add Teacher confirmation flow, with plenty of drawer, availability, payroll, and UX polish along the way. 
  • The Time Zone field is now automatically selected correctly when adding a teacher. No more temporal ambiguity. 

Calendar & Attendance

  • Calendar event windows now wait until student information has fully loaded before displaying event details 
  • Smoothed out the default start time behavior when adding calendar events. Time should now be less wibbly-wobbly. 
  • We fixed an issue that was causing the calendar event edit attendee field to look mysteriously empty after switching teachers 
  • Teacher names in Timeline View are now sorted alphabetically. The alphabet wins again. 
  • We fixed an error that would appear when searching for « No Teacher – Entire Studio » in the calendar multiple times. The search bar has stopped panicking. 
  • We fixed an issue that was intermittently preventing teachers from appearing in the Calendar search field 

Online Resources

  • You can now search for folders alongside files in Online Resources! 
  • The Student Access and Views columns are now visible again in Online Resources global search results. The missing columns have returned from their mysterious vacation. 
  • Online Resources space cards now keep their clickable area inside the card where it belongs.  

Website Builder

  • We improved our website builder SEO to help search engines better discover your site. 
  • Fixed an unexpected error when switching from External Website to Website Builder. The website lane-change is smoother now. 
  • Fixed an issue where formatting and spacing could appear differently on your live website than it did in the Website Builder 
  • Fixed an issue where using Undo in Website Builder could prevent further editing until the page was refreshed. Undo is no longer a trapdoor. 
  • Website Builder now displays the correct Subject tag types when creating tags. Tags are tagging responsibly again. 
  • Website settings can now be saved even if a previously valid domain becomes misconfigured. 

General/Other

  • We added a new Getting Started Guide to help new users get up and running 
  • When creating an invoice with the same date range as a previous invoice, you will no longer receive a duplication warning if the previous invoice has already been voided 
  • We fixed an issue where the Mileage year selector could display the wrong year after switching teachers. Time travel (and real travel) privileges have been reset. 
  • We fixed an issue where single-teacher accounts couldn’t send an email to families who wrote a review 
  • Images uploaded through the editor’s media gallery now insert at your cursor position instead of jumping to the top of the page 
  • We improved back-button behavior in form protection windows for a more predictable navigation experience. 
  • We’ve made a number of behind-the-scenes improvements to our automated testing systems to help catch issues earlier and keep updates rolling out smoothly 
  • Attendance history no longer credits repertoire assignments to the owner of the piece by default.  
  • Various cosmetic tweaks throughout. ✨ 
Please note: If you have any questions or require assistance with your account, please contact our support team at support@mymusicstaff.com

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