Google Sites can be a great platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science concepts trainees. The challenge for an instructor when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I came up with to keep track of updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade task in Google Classroom. Every week students included a brand-new page to their websites. They then needed to react 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 track of updates to trainees Google Sites by using Google Classroom projects. The video shows an instructors viewpoint and it reveals a students point of view of this technique..