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The technique that I came up with to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Then weekly trainees added a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the assignment with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I show how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it reveals a students viewpoint of this method..

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