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

The method that I created to keep an eye on updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Then each week students added a new page to their sites. They then had to respond to the project with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to keep an eye on updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video shows a teachers perspective and it reveals a students viewpoint of this technique..