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

The technique that I created to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Then weekly students included a brand-new page to their websites. They then had to react to the assignment with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I show how to monitor updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video shows a teachers point of view and it shows a trainees point of view of this technique..

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