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The technique that I created to keep track of updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the task with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to students Google Sites by using Google Classroom projects. The video reveals a teachers point of view and it reveals a trainees perspective of this method..

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