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The technique that I developed to track updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update task in Google Classroom. Every week students included a new page to their sites. They then needed to react to the task with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to track updates to trainees Google Sites by using Google Classroom tasks. The video shows a teachers viewpoint and it shows a students point of view of this technique..

Google Sites can be an excellent platform for trainees to use to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science concepts students. The challenge for a teacher when students use Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..