Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to utilize to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles students. The challenge for an instructor when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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The approach that I developed to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Then each week trainees added a new page to their websites. They then needed to react to the task with a link to the 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 assignments. The video shows an instructors perspective and it reveals a students point of view of this method..