Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. In fact, I did that in 2015 with my computer science concepts trainees. The challenge for a teacher when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping an eye on updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I developed to keep an eye on updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week trainees added a new page to their sites. They then needed to respond to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I show how to track updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video shows an instructors viewpoint and it reveals a students point of view of this technique..