Google Sites can be an excellent platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer science concepts trainees. The challenge for an instructor when trainees use Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

The method that I developed to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to create a weekly upgrade project in Google Classroom. Every week trainees added a brand-new page to their sites. They then needed to respond to the project 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 tasks. The video shows an instructors perspective and it reveals a students viewpoint of this approach..

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