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

The technique that I created to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly upgrade task in Google Classroom. Then each week students added a brand-new page to their websites. They then had to respond to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I show how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it reveals a trainees perspective of this method..