Eureka! At long last, you can now migrate classic Google Sites to the “new” Google Sites. Isn’t that amazing news?

Note that this is only for personal Gmail-based Google Sites. This won’t work on the Google Suites for Education just yet. And, there are some pages that just won’t be transferable (e.g.

The folks at Steegle have a great tutorial and step by step. It would be a shame to re-create one since they did such a good job. Go check it out!

Trying It Out

For my first effort, I decided to go big with my old Classic Sites ePortfolio site. It has TONS of content.

https://sites.google.com/site/mguhlin/

 Unfortunately, since I use Announcements feature (heck, most of my classic Sites do), I won’t be able to take advantage of the migration tool right away.

But, wait I do have ONE Example!

Fortunately, I did find one out of my many (tears streaming down my face) classic Sites that I can migrate:

After clicking the “Try It Now” link at the top of the page, I was transferred to this screen:

Which then showed me….

And then after hitting CONTINUE:

and results in this…

As you can see, I can re-publish the NEW Sites to the old address where the classic version was. Since this is a portfolio item for me, I went ahead and published it.

Google is kind enough to send you an email letting you know what’s happening….

You can find the converted site online at https://sites.google.com/site/mgfamilyinvolvement/home

Worked great!

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