Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. In reality, I did that last year with my computer technology concepts students. The challenge for an instructor when trainees use 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 create a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week students added 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 demonstrate how to keep an eye on updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video shows a teachers viewpoint and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this approach..