{"id":6893,"date":"2023-05-24T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:49:17","slug":"google-sites-now-available-to-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2023\/05\/24\/google-sites-now-available-to-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sites: Now Available to Students!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students can now create beautiful websites with user-friendly, familiar Google-style tools. Think student portfolio, jazzed up student-led conferences, and a fresh alternative to Slides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To get started on a student iPad: Open a blank Google page in Safari \u2192 tap on the 9-dot grid in upper right corner \u2192 tap Account \u2192 sign in with district credentials \u2192 tap on grid again \u2192 tap Sites. From here take a moment to view templates or start a Site from scratch. A few examples: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-959x600.png 959w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM-1536x961.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/files\/2023\/05\/Screenshot-2025-10-23-at-11.44.40-AM.png 1954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sites are collaborative, just like Docs and Slides, so students can share with each other and their teachers. Student Sites can&#8217;t be published publicly, but instead remain within the safety of our BLS environment. Submitting in Canvas is as simple as dropping in a Web URL. Give it a try; students seem to be big fans already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students can now create beautiful websites with user-friendly, familiar Google-style tools. Think student portfolio, jazzed up student-led conferences, and a fresh alternative to Slides. To get started on a student iPad: Open a blank Google page in Safari \u2192 tap <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/2023\/05\/24\/google-sites-now-available-to-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Google Sites: Now Available to Students!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":6917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stc_notifier_status":"sent","_stc_notifier_sent_time":"2023-05-24 09:15:37","_stc_notifier_request":false,"_stc_notifier_prevent":false,"_stc_subscriber_keywords":"","_stc_subscriber_search_areas":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58422,11053],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-in-two","category-spotlight-on-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/7221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bend.k12.or.us\/instructionaltechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}