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

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The approach that I came up with to keep track of updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a new page to their websites. They then needed to respond to the task 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 tasks. The video shows a teachers point of view and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this technique..