Hope to replace our LMS – Google Classroom Review

Our school recently switched from Angel to Blackboard. I could not stand Angel and was not too hopeful about Blackboard. Thankfully, Google Classroom was offered as a trial. I love that my students and I can access it completely from our mobile devices. I used it for two entirely online Humanities: Music classes this summer (using EdPuzzle for quizzes and FlipGrid for video discussion board assignments). I now use it for all of my traditional classroom classes (music theory, music education technology, flute and double reed methods, and applied flute lessons) and have successfully transitioned to a paperless classroom. (If I do want students to complete handwritten work, I simply have them take a picture of it and submit. No more lost assignments and easy sharing of files with students and other professors.) The newest update allows you to mark up homework with a stylus. If you access Classroom with a desktop, then you can easily export grades to a Google Sheets gradebook. (I choose not to use this feature. It's easier for me to use Gradebook Pro and the split screen on my iPad Pro.)
Review by slevo87 on Google Classroom.