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Google Sites can be a fantastic platform for trainees to utilize to preserve digital portfolios. In truth, I did that last year with my computer system science principles trainees. The challenge for an instructor when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The approach that I came up with to keep an eye on updates that students made to their Google Sites was to develop a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Every week students included a new page to their sites. They then had to react to the task with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I show how to keep an eye on updates to trainees Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video reveals a teachers viewpoint and it shows a students perspective of this approach..