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  1. New Features & Improvements

      • Clearer AI spend limit states — AI features now explain what's paused when an organisation reaches its spend limit, and point admins straight to where they can raise it.
      • Editable filter chips — A filter's value can now be changed directly from its chip, without removing it and starting again.

    Bug Fixes

      • Sample links — Sample links on the lessons and recordings lists now open the sample lesson or recording itself.
      • Calendar colours — Fixed an issue where some calendar cards could show without their course colour.

    Speed Improvements

      • Calendar — The calendar now appears straight away while lessons load, and a busy month loads noticeably faster.

  2. New Features & Improvements

      • Calendar invites on lesson emails — Emails about upcoming lessons now carry a calendar invite that keeps itself up to date if the lesson moves or is canceled.
      • Local times for organisations — Organisations now take the timezone of their country, so emails, exports and pages show local time.
      • Plain-English Irish curriculum levels — Irish levels now read the way people in Ireland describe them, such as First/Second Class and Senior Cycle (Leaving Cert).

    Bug Fixes

      • Lesson transcripts — Transcripts are now retrieved more thoroughly across all of a lesson's recordings.
      • TutorCruncher lesson sync — Resolved an issue that could occur when a lesson was edited and removed at the same moment.

  3. New Features & Improvements

      • AI content style — Admins can now choose how detailed their organisation's AI lesson plans, summaries and student feedback are.
      • Recordings across the organisation — Recordings can now be browsed in one place, with filtering by tutor, student, type and date.
      • Lesson reminder timing — Organisations can choose how far ahead lesson reminder emails go out, from 10 minutes to 2 days.
      • Completed lesson records — Completed lessons and their reports, transcripts and notes are now kept safe from deletion.
      • TutorCruncher integration — Deleting a Bobbin account now removes the Bobbin integration from TutorCruncher automatically.
      • Bobbin Lite — Lite agencies now see only the sections their plan includes.

    Bug Fixes

      • Lesson recordings — Fixed an issue where a lesson recorded both online and in person could open a recording in the wrong player.

  4. New Features & Improvements

      • AI content style — Admins can now compare three AI writing styles side by side and pick the one their organisation uses.
      • Recordings page — A new Recordings page lists every recording across the organisation, with filters, sorting and an expiry countdown on each row.
      • Lesson objectives — The summary tab now shows what was planned against what was covered, and an AI match can be confirmed or corrected in place.
      • Lesson plan redrafts — Changing a lesson's objectives now offers to redraft the plan to match, alongside saving the picks on their own.
      • LessonSpace guide — Tutors opening LessonSpace for the first time get a short guide to the room and a link to the tutor guide.
      • Completed lessons — Deleting a completed lesson or its course now explains why it can't be removed, before you confirm.
      • Settings wording — Settings dropdowns read in plain words, and options that refine another setting now sit under it.
      • While Bobbin writes — Waiting for Bobbin to draft content now offers an optional word game rather than starting one for you.

    Bug Fixes

      • Canceled lessons — Fixed an issue where a canceled lesson's tabs suggested a recording or transcript was still on its way.
      • Lesson recordings — Fixed an issue where a lesson recorded both online and in person could open a recording in the wrong player.
      • Sample data — Fixed an issue where sample recordings could appear in the Recordings list.

  5. New Features & Improvements

      • Choose lesson objectives from the full course plan — Pick a lesson's objectives from the whole plan, with search, coverage at a glance and quick group selection.
      • Clearer guidance when adding people — The create forms for clients, students and tutors now explain that the person is emailed a link to set their password.
      • Consistent dates across the app — Dates and times now read the same way on every page.

    Bug Fixes

      • Fuller lesson activity — The lesson activity card now shows a lesson's complete history, including TutorCruncher updates and session events.

  6. New Features & Improvements

      • Simpler settings for Bobbin Lite — Agencies on Bobbin Lite now see only the settings that apply to their plan.
      • Clearer settings wording — Refreshed the labels and help text across the settings pages so they read more clearly.

  7. New Features & Improvements

      • Safeguarding always reachable — Safeguarding stays in the menu even when detection is off, with an overview of what it checks and a link to the setting.
      • AI lesson plan drafts by default — Creating a lesson on a course with a plan now drafts a lesson plan with AI by default, and you can turn it off per lesson.
      • Resource library browsing — The library now shows your folders and root-level files, with an option to list everything in one flat view.
      • Client access to their own records — Clients can now open their own record and view course pages read-only.

    Bug Fixes

      • Search results — Search now offers each person only the records they can open, so every result leads somewhere.
      • Form autofill — Browser autofill is now limited to sign-in screens, so dropdowns and date pickers stay clear on other forms.

  8. Bug Fixes

      • Search results — Search now offers only the people and records each person can open, so every result leads somewhere.
      • Saving settings — Improved reliability when saving organization and billing settings.

  9. New Features & Improvements

      • Country at signup — New accounts now choose their country when signing up, so plans and prices show in the right currency from the start.
      • Sample data out of the way — Lists now show your own records, with a banner linking through to the sample data whenever you want it.
      • A better curriculum plan browser — Plans open on your agency's country, previews read as collapsible module headings you can expand, and the list tells you when it is showing only part of the results.
      • Safeguarding categories explained where you need them — Each flagged category now explains itself on the row, and the page describes what Bobbin checks transcripts for when there are no flags.
      • Help and feedback open a conversation — Feedback and help links now start a chat with our team, already filled in with what you are asking about.
      • Simpler course creation — The course form no longer asks for a per-tutor access level; tutors take your agency's default course permission instead.
      • One-click actions — Where a page has a single action, it now shows as a button rather than a menu you have to open.
      • Cleaner empty states — Empty panels now stay focused on the task at hand.

    Bug Fixes

      • Signup confirmation links — Opening a confirmation link you have already used now tells you the account is confirmed and offers a login button.
      • Course colours on the calendar — Very pale course colours now stay clearly visible on the calendar and in lists.
      • Course tutor access — Saving a course now keeps each tutor's existing access level, and tutors can add a colleague to a course they manage.
      • Activity filters — The activity page's filters now cover every action and record type Bobbin records.
      • Finished lessons — A lesson that has already finished no longer shows a live attendance card.
      • Welcome tour — A newly created account now gets the welcome survey and tour even when another account has signed up in the same browser.

  10. New Features & Improvements

      • Curriculum plan browser opens on your country — The template browser now starts on the plans for your agency's country, with the country picker still there to browse others.
      • Clearer tax on subscriptions — Tax is now shown and charged on top of subscription fees, and EU customers provide a VAT number when setting up billing.
      • Better lesson summaries and safeguarding checks — Lesson summaries and safeguarding flags now use our latest, more detailed instructions.
      • Refreshed email layout — Emails now use a lighter page background so the content card and footer stand apart more clearly.

    Bug Fixes

      • Opening a lesson space — Lesson spaces now handle a brief interruption to LessonSpace more gracefully, with a clear message and an invitation to try again shortly.

  11. New Features & Improvements

      • Lesson recording retention — Organizations can now choose how long their lesson recordings are kept, from Settings → Lessons.
      • Students without an email address — Students can now be added without an email address, one at a time or by CSV import.
      • Lesson reminder emails — Everyone on a lesson now receives a reminder email shortly before it starts, in their own timezone. Admins can switch reminders, and reschedule notices, on or off in Email Settings.
      • Country filter for curriculum plans — Curriculum plans can now be filtered by country, so the subject and level options match the country picked.
      • Australian curriculum plans — Australian curricula are now available when browsing AI-generated curriculum plans, covering primary through senior secondary.
      • Safeguarding category descriptions — Each safeguarding category now comes with a plain-English description of what it covers, and alert emails name the category in full.

    Bug Fixes

      • Short classroom sessions — Chat messages sent during a very brief session are now kept, and a participant who drops out and rejoins mid-lesson is recorded as having attended.

  12. New Features & Improvements

      • Irish curricula — Tutors in Ireland can now build course plans from Irish curricula in Browse plans, covering Leaving Cert and Junior Cert subjects at Higher, Ordinary and Foundation level, plus primary maths, English and Irish across all four primary stages.
      • Sample course — The example course on a newly created account now shows its subject and key stage, appears under curriculum filters, and has its first modules marked complete.
      • Global search — Search now returns only your organisation's own students, tutors, clients, courses and lessons, leaving the sample data out.
      • TutorCruncher lesson updates — Lessons marked complete during a brief TutorCruncher interruption now reach TutorCruncher more reliably, without anyone needing to redo anything.

    Bug Fixes

      • Email delivery — Improved email delivery reliability when the connection to our email service is briefly interrupted.

  13. New Features & Improvements

      • Scheduling on TutorCruncher courses — Agencies that use TutorCruncher for scheduling can now book lessons on those courses directly in Bobbin.
      • Objectives Covered on lesson insights — Lesson insights now show which course objectives a lesson covered, grouped by module, and each agency can turn the panel on or off.
      • Prefilled email on the payment page — Setting up billing now arrives with the admin's email already filled in, so receipts and payment notices reach the right inbox.
      • Clearer cancellation email — A cancelled account's email now explains how to restore access by choosing a plan and adding card details.

    Bug Fixes

      • Marking lessons complete — Resolved an issue where marking a lesson complete could show an error even though it had gone through.
      • Tutors added to existing lessons — Tutors added to a lesson that already existed in Bobbin can now mark it complete.
      • Billing setup — Improved billing reliability when setting up a subscription.

  14. New Features & Improvements

      • A simpler sample lesson for new companies — New companies now start with one sample maths course and lesson, shown from a single card on the dashboard instead of mixed through every list.
      • Bring your Lessonspace documents across — Companies moving from Lessonspace to Bobbin can now have their document library brought over automatically as part of the TutorCruncher migration.
      • Stronger in-person recording uploads — In-person recordings now handle a patchy phone signal more gracefully, and ending one gives any last uploads a moment to finish.

    Bug Fixes

      • Lesson recordings showing again — Resolved an issue where a lesson's recording could appear missing. Affected recordings are back on the lesson, with nothing lost.
      • Accurate dashboard counts — The "Needs attention" numbers on the dashboard now show the true totals rather than stopping at 40.
      • More accurate lesson attendance — Attendance is recorded correctly when someone looks in early and leaves, when a register mark is corrected, and when a recording is discarded.
      • Smoother rejoining of a lesson space — Improved reliability when rejoining an online lesson, so attendance is recorded as expected.

    Speed Improvements

      • Dashboard — The dashboard now loads faster, fetching its "Needs attention" figures in one go.

  15. New Features & Improvements

      • Course resources — Files and folders from the document library can now be attached to a course, ready to teach from.
      • Library panel in the lesson space — Tutors can open the agency's shared files, the course's files and their own library from inside a live lesson.
      • Shared library for tutors — Tutors can now see and use the agency's shared files and folders on the resources page, and attach them to their courses.
      • Uploaded-by names — Every document and folder now shows the name of the person who added it.
      • Document filters and folder counts — The documents list can be narrowed by author, upload date, agency-wide visibility and whether a file sits in a folder, and each folder shows how many files it holds.
      • Monthly spending cap — Admins can set a limit on usage charges on top of their plan fee, with email warnings at 80% and 100% of the cap.
      • First-run business survey — New accounts are asked a few short questions about their tutoring business the first time an admin signs in.

    Bug Fixes

      • Document sharing — Sharing a document with all tutors now folds in any individual shares, so removing the group share removes access for everyone.
      • Share options — The "all admins" sharing option has been removed, as admins already see every document in the agency.

  16. New Features & Improvements

      • Safeguarding reviews — Bobbin reviews lesson transcripts for concerning content and alerts agency admins, who can review each flag in the app.
      • Richer safeguarding review tools — Reviewers can expand the conversation around a flagged moment, see whether the speaker was a tutor or a student, jump straight to that point in the recording, and close a flag with an outcome and a note.
      • Two-factor authentication — Users can turn on two-factor authentication from their profile settings, with a code from their authenticator app required at every sign-in. Admins can reset it for someone at their company.
      • Next steps on lessons and progress reports — An optional lesson-insight section that suggests what a student should work on next, consolidated onto their progress report and fed into the plan for their next lesson.
      • Bobbin Lite plan — A new whiteboard-only plan without the AI features, which admins can switch to and back from on the billing page.
      • ACT and SAT added to the US curriculum — Both now appear under Exam Boards when browsing AI-generated curriculum plans.
      • Clearer progress report exports — The export now shows how many of the covered lessons had a lesson report available to include, and notes any shortfall in the PDF.

    Bug Fixes

      • Attendance now reflected in progress reports — Resolved an issue where a student marked absent for an in-person lesson could still be described in a progress report as having attended.
      • More reliable lesson updates from TutorCruncher — Improved the handling of updates arriving from TutorCruncher so a batch always comes through as expected.

  17. New Features & Improvements

      • Notes on progress reports — Tutors and admins can add their own written notes to a student's progress report, shown alongside the report.
      • Email a progress report to clients — Admins can now send a student's progress report to their clients as a PDF.
      • Fuller insights for interrupted lessons — Lessons that stopped and restarted now have insights covering the whole lesson, not just the final stretch.
      • Signed-in classroom access — Tutors and admins now enter the classroom from a signed-in Bobbin page, and tutors see share links only for their own students.
      • Smoother speaker matching on in-person recordings — Tutors are no longer asked to re-match speakers when lesson details change while a recording is still processing.

    Bug Fixes

      • Attendance for students who reconnect — Fixed an issue where a student who refreshed, switched device or briefly lost connection could be reported as absent.
      • AI content that comes back empty — Resolved an issue where an AI edit could replace existing content with nothing; your existing content is now left untouched and you are asked to try again.
      • People lists — Internal accounts no longer appear in student, tutor and client lists.

    Speed Improvements

      • Regenerating lesson insights — The Regenerate insights button now responds straight away instead of waiting.

  18. New Features & Improvements

      • Lesson scheduled emails — Students, tutors and clients now get an email when a lesson is created, and admins can turn these off in Email Settings.
      • Report approval managed in TutorCruncher — For agencies using TutorCruncher, the report approval setting is now controlled there and flows through to Bobbin automatically.
      • More reliable speaker matching in recordings — Participants with similar names are matched more accurately, and anything uncertain is flagged for tutor review.
      • Complete insights for multi-session lessons — Summaries and feedback now include every session's transcript, even when one arrives while insights are being generated.
      • Improved email delivery — Organizations that signed up directly with Bobbin now have their own sending setup, so their emails arrive reliably.
      • Subscription fees charged up front — Signing up or changing plan now charges the prorated fee straight away, with the regular invoice still arriving on the 1st of the month.

    Bug Fixes

      • Joining a lesson space — Resolved an issue where some tutors and students saw "Course not found" when opening a lesson space.

  19. New Features & Improvements

      • Download a progress report as a PDF — Progress reports can now be downloaded as a PDF, with the option to include the student's lesson reports in the same file.

    Bug Fixes

      • Lessons from TutorCruncher — Resolved an issue where a lesson could occasionally not appear in Bobbin after a sync.

  20. New Features & Improvements

      • Password setup for people added in Bobbin — Tutors, clients and students created directly in Bobbin now receive an email to set a password and sign in. Admins can resend it, and there is a forgot-password option on the login page.
      • Refine with AI on progress reports — Progress reports can now be refined with AI, the same way lesson summaries already could.
      • Time and date preferences carried over from TutorCruncher — Companies that use 12-hour time, a different date format or a different timezone in TutorCruncher now see those preferences in Bobbin.
      • Account emails come from Bobbin — Emails about your account, billing, verification and passwords are sent from Bobbin's own address. Emails about your lessons, such as reports and review requests, continue to come from your agency's address, and all of them keep your branding.
      • Lesson report emails for larger lessons — Report emails are now prepared and sent in batches, so lessons with a large number of students are handled smoothly.
      • Activity log — Changes synced from TutorCruncher now appear as system activity rather than being attributed to a person.

    Bug Fixes

      • Rejoining a lesson — Fixed an issue where students rejoining a lesson could be asked to enter their name again, so their attendance stays attached to the right student.
      • Entering the learning space — Fixed an issue where a lesson space could not be entered; affected spaces now recover automatically the next time someone joins.
      • Lessons running past their end time — Fixed an issue where people joining a lesson that was running late could be removed shortly after joining.
      • Switching organisation — Fixed an issue where switching between organisations did not stick for people who belong to more than one.

    Speed Improvements

      • Removing a student, tutor or client — Deletion now completes straight away, with the data cleanup finishing in the background.
      • Billing pages — Billing pages and free-hours calculations now load faster.

  21. New Features & Improvements

      • New subscription plans — Introduced Org tier 1/2/3 plans; existing customers keep their current plan and price.
      • Bulk user import — Admins can import tutors, clients and students in one go from a CSV spreadsheet.
      • Progress report approval — New optional setting to have progress reports approved by an admin before students and parents see them.
      • Lessons from a course — When creating a lesson from a course you can pre-select objectives and auto-draft a lesson plan.
      • Outbound webhooks — Organisations can now configure outbound webhooks for Bobbin events.
      • Richer progress reports — Progress reports now show the lessons and courses they were generated from.
      • Tutor feedback visibility — Tutors no longer see their own AI performance feedback unless an admin enables it.
      • Search-as-you-type filters — Large filter dropdowns (students, tutors, clients, courses, lessons) now let you type to search, keeping pages fast for big organisations.
      • Complete lessons without a recording — Lessons without a usable recording can now be completed and billed as normal.
      • Clearer trial status — Expired free trials are now shown clearly instead of appearing as empty data.

    Bug Fixes

      • Date filters — Fixed an issue where filtering a list by an end date could leave out records from the final day.
      • Attendance emails — Resolved an issue so attendance emails are reliably routed to the correct client.

    Speed Improvements

      • Lesson recordings — Lesson recordings now load faster.

  22. Bug Fixes

      • Admin list — Fixed an issue where the admin list could occasionally show a same-named admin twice, or skip one, when paging through it.

    Speed Improvements

      • Large organisations — The app now loads faster for organisations with a large lesson history.

  23. New Features & Improvements

      • In-lesson chat — Typed chat from a lesson is now shown on the lesson and included in AI write-ups.
      • Speaker-label review — In-person recordings now go through a review step where the tutor or an admin confirms who's who before insights are generated.
      • In-person recording — Available as an opt-in beta.
      • Recording notice — The join screen now shows a recording-for-safeguarding notice before someone enters a session.

    Bug Fixes

      • Subscription billing — Improved billing reliability when setting up a subscription.
      • Shared student profiles — Guardians now see only their own contact details on a shared student's profile.

  24. New Features & Improvements

      • Manage students — Admins can add, edit and remove students directly in Bobbin (for organisations not managed through TutorCruncher).
      • Manage clients — Admins can add, edit and remove clients directly in Bobbin (for organisations not managed through TutorCruncher).
      • Manage courses — Admins can create, edit and delete courses, with a permission level per tutor.
      • Report approval — New optional setting to have an admin approve lesson reports before they reach clients.
      • Lesson plan PDF — Admins and tutors can now download a lesson plan as a PDF.
      • Reports on completion emails — Lesson completion emails to clients now include the report as a PDF attachment.
      • Course outline history — Course outline history is now a read-only log of what was changed.

      • Public API — Several new endpoints are now available, including lessons, course plans, transcripts, progress reports, and lesson insights.
      • In-Person Recording — A range of improvements including better speaker labelling in transcripts, attendance timestamps, the ability to discard recordings at more stages, automatic removal of audio after 30 days, and transcripts being scrubbed when a user is anonymised. Recordings linked to unresolved safeguarding issues are now retained.
      • Lesson Report PDF — Lesson reports can now be downloaded as a PDF.
      • Notes on Lessons — Notes can now be added directly to lessons.
      • Tutor Management — Tutors can now be created and managed within the app.
      • Enterprise Billing — Added support for block quantities and mid-period top-ups for enterprise accounts.
      • Login with TutorCruncher — Browser-based login has been replaced with TutorCruncher account login.
      • Course Plan Editing — Template-derived course plans can now be edited in place rather than generating a separate fork.
      • Task Status Polling — Admins can now track the progress of lesson export and email tasks, as the task owner is now recorded.
      • Security & reliability — Several backend improvements to data-export validation and rate-limiting

      • Added notice showing when lesson recordings will be deleted
      • Lesson plan tab now shows a helpful placeholder when no plan exists
      • Subject history now displays only deleted and covered subjects for clarity

      • Student profiles now show associated clients for better context
      • Tutor notes field now includes browser spellcheck
      • Enhanced support for lessons with multiple transcripts
      • Added admin feedback review page for quality assurance
      • Improved monitoring efficiency

      • Lesson list now links straight to the meeting join URL, and tutors no longer see student email addresses on participant cards.
      • Mark a lesson complete in Bobbin and tick "Also mark complete in TutorCruncher" to keep both sides in sync. You can now also delete demo data and remove lessons directly from the dashboard.
      • Big UI refresh — new layout, updated iconography, and a tidier sidebar to make the app feel more like home.

      • Mark a lesson complete in Bobbin and tick "Also mark complete in TutorCruncher" to keep both sides in sync. You can now also delete demo data and remove lessons directly from the dashboard.

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