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Google Sites can be a great platform for students to utilize to maintain digital portfolios. In fact, I did that in 2015 with my computer technology principles students. The difficulty for an instructor when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The technique that I created to monitor updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included 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 brief video I show how to keep track of updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals a teachers point of view and it reveals a students viewpoint of this approach..