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Google Sites can be a great platform for students to utilize to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science concepts students. The challenge for a teacher when students use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping an eye on updates to those portfolios..

The method that I came up with to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week students included a brand-new page to their websites. They then had to react to the project with a link to the brand-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 tasks. The video shows a teachers point of view and it reveals a students viewpoint of this technique..