Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for students to use to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science principles trainees. The obstacle for an instructor when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

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The method that I created to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week trainees added a brand-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 monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video shows a teachers viewpoint and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this technique..