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Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for students to use to keep digital portfolios. In fact, 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 keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

The method that I developed to keep an eye on updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Then each week students included a brand-new page to their sites. They then had to react to the task 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 projects. The video shows a teachers perspective and it reveals a trainees point of view of this method..