Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to utilize to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science concepts trainees. The difficulty for a teacher when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping an eye on updates to those portfolios..

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The technique that I developed to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly upgrade assignment in Google Classroom. Then each week trainees added a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I show how to keep track of updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video reveals a teachers point of view and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this technique..