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Google Sites can be a great platform for trainees to use to keep digital portfolios. In fact, I did that last year with my computer science concepts students. The obstacle for a teacher when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The technique that I came up with to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a brand-new page to their sites. They then had to respond to the assignment 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 shows a teachers point of view and it shows a trainees perspective of this approach..