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Google Sites can be a great platform for students to utilize to maintain digital portfolios. In reality, I did that last year with my computer system science principles students. The challenge for an instructor when students use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I created to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Then weekly students added a brand-new page to their sites. They then needed to respond to the assignment with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video shows a teachers perspective and it shows a trainees perspective of this method..