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The approach that I created to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly upgrade assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees added a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the assignment with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to keep track of updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video shows an instructors point of view and it reveals a students point of view of this technique..

Google Sites can be a great platform for students to use to preserve digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science principles students. The challenge for a teacher when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..