Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to use to maintain digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles trainees. The difficulty for an instructor when students utilize Google Sites for portfolios is monitoring updates to those portfolios..

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The technique 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 trainees added a brand-new page to their websites. They then needed to respond to the assignment with a link to the brand-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 projects. The video reveals a teachers perspective and it reveals a trainees point of view of this approach..