Google Sites can be a terrific platform for trainees to use to maintain digital portfolios. In truth, I did that in 2015 with my computer science principles trainees. The obstacle for a teacher when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I created to track updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update project in Google Classroom. Every week students added a new page to their sites. They then needed to respond 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 track of updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom projects. The video shows a teachers point of view and it shows a students viewpoint of this approach..