Get Activity Reports for Your Children With Windows Live Family Safety

Windows Live Family Safety can record & report the activity that your child has on his/her computer both online and offline. In this tutorial I will show how you can see the websites he/she has visited and block them if you think they are inappropriate. Then, I'll show how to view statistics like: how many times you child has logged in and amount of hours spent at the computer, the list of programs ran, the files downloaded and the games played.

How to View Activity Reports

After you have downloaded, installed and enabled Windows Live Family Safety on your child's computer as shown in our previous article on Parental Controls With Windows Live Family Safety, login to familysafety.live.com. Here you will see a list of all your family members. You have two ways of finding activity reports. The first one is to click on the 'View Activity Report' link located to the right of the account name you are interested in.

The second option is to click on Edit Settings under the account name for which you want to see activity reports.

Then, click Activity Reporting in the left side pane.

By default, activity reporting is turned on for children and turned off for accounts set as parents. Select 'Turn off activity reporting' if you don't want to log the activity anymore and then press the Save button.

If it is turned on and you want to see a report, select the time interval you desire and press Show activity.

Under the date selector, you can see a table with your children's activity. The first tab contains Web activity. You can see the websites that your child has visited, when and how many times.

You can change the settings for a specific website, making it blocked for one person or for everyone, by selecting the appropriate option from the drop-down list, in the Change Setting column.

Click the second tab to see 'Other internet activity', like different programs that automatically access the internet for updates. Here, you can see the program name, a short description, a link to the web address that the program accessed, when was the last time the website was visited and the number of visits.

Click the third tab to see Computer activity.

In the Computer activity section you can see different information on the account you are monitoring, like how many times the user has logged on and for how many hours in total, what are the programs that he/she has used, how many times, the files that the user has downloaded and the games which were played.

Conclusion

Windows Live Family Safety allows you to easily monitor the websites your child has visited, the programs he opened as well as other computer activities. For more information on Parental Controls and Windows Live Family Safety, look through the articles recommended below. Also, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to leave a comment.

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