Google Sites can be a terrific platform for students to utilize to keep digital portfolios. I did that last year with my computer system science principles trainees. The obstacle for a teacher when trainees utilize Google Sites for portfolios is keeping track of updates to those portfolios..

The technique that I developed to monitor updates that trainees made to their Google Sites was to produce a weekly update assignment in Google Classroom. Every week trainees included a new page to their sites. They then needed to react to the project with a link to the new pages they made in their Google Sites..
In this short video I show how to monitor updates to students Google Sites by using Google Classroom tasks. The video shows a teachers point of view and it reveals a trainees point of view of this approach..

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