Google Sites can be an excellent platform for trainees to utilize to keep digital portfolios. 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 keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

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