Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science concepts students. The obstacle for a teacher when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I developed to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade task in Google Classroom. Every week students added 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 short video I show how to track updates to trainees Google Sites by using Google Classroom tasks. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it reveals a trainees point of view of this method..

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