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

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The method that I came up with to keep track of updates that students made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Then each week trainees included a new page to their websites. They then had to react to the project with a link to the brand-new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this brief video I demonstrate how to track updates to students Google Sites by utilizing Google Classroom assignments. The video reveals an instructors point of view and it reveals a trainees viewpoint of this approach..