The method that I developed to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade task in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a brand-new page to their sites. They then had to react to the task with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video reveals an instructors point of view and it reveals a students viewpoint of this approach..

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