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

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The approach that I developed to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Then weekly students included a new page to their websites. They then had to respond to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I demonstrate how to track updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video reveals a teachers perspective and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this approach..