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

The method that I came up with to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week students included 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 demonstrate how to keep track of updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals an instructors viewpoint and it shows a trainees point of view of this method..

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