Google Sites can be a terrific platform for trainees to use to preserve digital portfolios. In fact, I did that last year with my computer technology principles trainees. The obstacle for a teacher when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is tracking updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I developed to keep an eye on updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Then weekly students included a brand-new page to their websites. They then needed to respond to the task with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I show how to track updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom tasks. The video reveals an instructors perspective and it shows a students point of view of this approach..

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