What is Google Sites?

In this activity, we will create a Google Site. The website you are using right now to access this training course is an example of a Google Site!

• Google Sites allows you to build engaging websites, and fill it with all sorts of content for easy and intuitive access by students, colleagues, and/or the school community.

• With Google Sites, you customise the look, build a structure of pages & subpages, and then bring together layouts, images, text, google drive folders & files to build each page.

What should I use Google Sites for?

So far, you have been shown how to share individual files or folders through Google Drive, and how to build a dynamic, digital classroom with assignment & marking workflow using Google Classroom.

Building a Google Site is just another way you might choose to deliver class material or publish information and tools relating to a faculty, extra-curricular activity or school initiative. Some of the benefits that Sites has over publishing material on Classroom or sharing content from Drive include:

• Sites allows you to bring lots of related content together into a single layout.

• Sites is more visually engaging and customisable.

• Content can be broken up into pages and subpages, similar to chapters and subchapters, for easy navigation.

• Sites are distributed like any other website - by sharing the web address. It can also be shared publicly, unlike access to a Google Classroom.