I know it's not a shot 🙂
Last year was my 1st time teaching ELA, and we re-did curricular materials part-way through the 1st quarter. Part of the curricular materials was a computer-based literacy program, which the kids by and large hated. However, the ELA MAPS scores went up (my 8th Graders had 100% growth). Learning is happening, and we are able to measure it, we just need to align curricular materials correctly.
Google Classroom is free for non-profits 🙂