Google Sites can be a terrific platform for trainees to use to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles trainees. The obstacle for a teacher when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I came up with to keep track of updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly upgrade assignment in Google Classroom. Then each week trainees added a 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 brief video I show how to keep track of updates to students Google Sites by using Google Classroom projects. The video reveals an instructors point of view and it reveals a students viewpoint of this technique..