Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for trainees to use to maintain digital portfolios. In fact, I did that in 2015 with my computer technology principles trainees. The obstacle for an instructor when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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The method that I came up with to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Every week students added a brand-new page to their sites. They then needed to react to the assignment with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by using Google Classroom tasks. The video shows an instructors viewpoint and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this approach..