The technique that I developed to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Then each week students included a new page to their websites. They then needed to respond to the project with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to keep track of updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals a teachers perspective and it shows a students perspective of this method..

This post originally appeared on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
If you see it in other places it has actually been used without permission..

Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to utilize to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles students. The challenge for a teacher when students use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..