Google Sites can be a great platform for trainees to utilize to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science concepts students. The challenge for an instructor when students use Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

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The technique that I developed to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly upgrade task in Google Classroom. Then weekly trainees included a brand-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 track updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it shows a trainees perspective of this approach..