Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to use to preserve digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles students. The difficulty for a teacher when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

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The technique that I created to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees added a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the assignment with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to keep track of updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it reveals a students viewpoint of this method..