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The method that I created to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Then every week students added a new page to their sites. They then had to react to the project with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by using Google Classroom assignments. The video shows an instructors point of view and it reveals a trainees point of view of this approach..

Google Sites can be an excellent platform for trainees to use to maintain digital portfolios. In fact, I did that last year with my computer technology concepts trainees. The obstacle for an instructor when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..