Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to use to preserve digital portfolios. In fact, I did that last year with my computer technology principles trainees. The difficulty for an instructor when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

The technique that I created to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Then every week trainees included a new page to their websites. They then needed to react to the project with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to track updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video shows an instructors viewpoint and it shows a students viewpoint of this technique..

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