Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to utilize to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science concepts students. The difficulty for an instructor when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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