Work4WiFi

Parent Dashboard Guide

Everything you need to know about managing your family's WiFi rewards

📋 Quick Navigation

🏠 Dashboard Overview

When you log in, you'll see your family dashboard with collapsible sections for each feature. Click any section header to expand or collapse it.

Child Status Cards

At the top, you'll see a card for each child showing:

Child status card

Example child card showing status and stats

Status Types

Online Internet access is active

Blocked Internet is blocked (no time remaining or manually blocked)

Pending Has submissions waiting for your review

Away Child is on custody schedule (blocking paused)

👧 Managing Children

Adding a Child

  1. Click "Add Child" to expand the section
  2. Enter the child's name
  3. Enter their age (optional)
  4. Create a 4-digit PIN they'll use to log in
  5. Click "Create Child"
Add child form

The Add Child form

💡 Tip: Use a PIN they'll remember easily - like their birth year or a favorite number pattern.

Family Code

Your Family Code is shown at the top of the dashboard. Children need this code (plus their name and PIN) to log into the child app.

Family code location

Your family code is displayed at the top

Editing a Child

Click on a child's name in the Child Stats section to:

✅ Creating & Managing Chores

Creating a Chore

  1. Click "Add Chore" to expand
  2. Enter a title (e.g., "Make your bed")
  3. Add a description of what needs to be done
  4. Define completion criteria - what the AI should look for in their photo
  5. Set the reward - WiFi minutes earned
  6. Assign to specific children or all children
  7. Click "Create Chore"
Create chore form

Creating a new chore with title, criteria, and reward

💡 AI Suggestions: Start typing a chore title and click "Generate with AI" to get suggested descriptions and criteria automatically!

Chore Templates

We provide pre-made chore templates you can use with one click. These have optimized descriptions and criteria for accurate AI verification.

Scheduling Options

Daily

Chore appears every day

Weekly

Select specific days of the week

Monthly

Limit how many times per month

One-time

Appears once, then done

Managing Existing Chores

In the Chore Queue section, you can:

📸 Reviewing Submissions

When a child submits a photo for a chore, the AI automatically verifies it based on your criteria.

AI Verification

AI approved result

AI Auto-Approved

AI resubmit required

AI Needs Better Photo

Manual Review

Click "Review" on a child's card (or expand "Pending Review") to see submissions needing your attention:

Pending review screen

Reviewing a pending submission

Recent Submissions

Expand "Recent Submissions" to see a history of all submissions and their outcomes.

📶 WiFi Control

You have full control over each child's internet access, independent of their earned time.

WiFi control buttons

Block and unblock controls for each child

Instant Block

Click the Block button next to a child to immediately cut their internet access. Use this for:

Unblock Options

Click Unblock and choose how long:

Unblock duration options

Choose how long to grant bonus internet access

15 minutes

Quick access

1 hour

Extended time

2 hours

Longer session

Until midnight

Rest of the day

⚠️ Note: Manual unblock is separate from earned time. If you unblock for 1 hour, it doesn't use their earned minutes - it's bonus time from you.

📅 Custody & Scheduling

For co-parenting situations, you can set up schedules so blocking automatically pauses when kids are at the other parent's house.

Schedule Types

Days of week scheduling

Days of Week

Every other weekend

Every Other Weekend

Alternating weeks

Alternating Weeks

Date range

Date Ranges

GPS based

GPS-Based (Premium)

Setting Up a Custody Schedule

  1. Click on the child's name in Child Stats
  2. Find the Custody Schedule section
  3. Enable the schedule
  4. Select which days blocking should be paused
  5. Save changes

On custody days, the child's status will show as Away and internet blocking is paused.

⚙️ Family Settings

Click "Settings" to expand family-wide options:

AI Verification Settings

WiFi Behavior

Privacy Settings

Timezone

Set your family's timezone so daily resets happen at the right time.

📊 Stats & Leaderboard

Child Stats

Expand "Child Stats" to see detailed information for each child:

Leaderboard

If you have multiple children, the Leaderboard shows rankings based on:

Great for encouraging friendly sibling competition!