Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for trainees to use to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science concepts students. The obstacle for a teacher when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I came up with to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a 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 demonstrate how to keep an eye on updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video shows a teachers point of view and it reveals a trainees point of view of this approach..