Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for students to use to keep digital portfolios. In truth, I did that in 2015 with my computer science concepts trainees. The challenge for a teacher when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I came up with to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Then weekly students included a brand-new page to their sites. They then had to react to the assignment with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I show how to monitor updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video shows an instructors viewpoint and it reveals a trainees perspective of this approach..

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