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Google Sites can be a great platform for students to use to preserve digital portfolios. In truth, I did that last year with my computer technology concepts trainees. The challenge for a teacher when students use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I created to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Then each week students added a new page to their websites. They then had to respond to the assignment with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to monitor updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video reveals a teachers perspective and it reveals a students viewpoint of this technique..