The method that I came up with to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Then every week students added a brand-new page to their websites. They then needed to react to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to students Google Sites by using Google Classroom tasks. The video reveals an instructors point of view and it reveals a students perspective of this approach..

Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to use to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science principles students. The difficulty for an instructor when students use Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

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