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Meridian Software Inc
In development

Keep language living. Carry heritage forward.

A community-centred learning platform designed to help people teach language, share stories, preserve cultural knowledge, and connect learners across generations.

Community-led contentMobile-first learningFlexible language formats
HL
Welcome backContinue learning
Current pathwayEveryday conversation
Listen & repeatAudio lesson
Words in contextStory lesson
Check progressKnowledge activity
Community storyListen in the speaker’s voice
Designed with communities in mindLanguage schoolsCultural organizationsFamilies and learnersEducators and knowledge keepers
The purpose

More than course delivery. A place for language to belong.

Heritage language learning often lives across classrooms, homes, community gatherings, recordings, and individual memories. The platform is intended to bring those experiences into one respectful learning environment.

A community-centred approach

Technology should support cultural continuity—not flatten it into a generic course template.

The product direction prioritizes flexible teaching methods, community roles, oral learning, stories, and the ability to reflect how each community chooses to organize and share knowledge.

Language in context

Connect vocabulary and grammar to stories, conversation, place, family, and lived cultural meaning.

Across generations

Create pathways for elders, knowledge keepers, teachers, parents, youth, and independent learners to contribute and learn.

Who it is for

One platform, shaped around different community roles.

Planned experiences recognize that teaching, learning, approving, organizing, and preserving content are different responsibilities.

01

Learners and families

Follow guided learning paths, practise at a comfortable pace, and bring language into everyday family life.

02

Teachers and facilitators

Build lessons, organize cohorts, guide activities, and understand where learners may need more support.

03

Knowledge keepers

Contribute stories, pronunciation, context, and community knowledge through clear review and permission workflows.

04

Community organizations

Manage programs, roles, content visibility, learner access, and community-specific governance.

Planned capabilities

Built around how language is heard, practised, and shared.

These capabilities describe the current product direction and will be refined with pilot communities.

Flexible course builder

Combine text, images, audio, video, downloadable resources, activities, and assessments into structured pathways.

Planned

Listen and practise

Support pronunciation, listening comprehension, repetition, and voice-based learning within each lesson.

Planned

Stories and oral history

Present stories with speaker context, translations, transcripts, related vocabulary, and community-approved visibility.

Planned

Roles and review

Separate authoring, teaching, review, approval, administration, and learner access according to community needs.

Planned

Progress and cohorts

Help educators understand participation, lesson completion, assessment progress, and learning-path momentum.

Planned

Mobile and low-bandwidth use

Prioritize responsive learning and efficient media delivery for learners using phones or less reliable connections.

Planned
Respectful by design

Community knowledge needs more than a public/private switch.

The product direction treats permissions, attribution, review, and culturally appropriate access as first-class design questions. Final governance capabilities will be shaped with participating communities and documented in product terms.

01

Clear stewardship

Define who can create, review, publish, update, and retire community content.

02

Purposeful access

Support different visibility rules for learners, families, instructors, members, or approved groups.

03

Attribution and context

Keep speaker, contributor, source, usage, and cultural context connected to material.

04

Privacy and safety

Minimize personal information and design secure, age-appropriate participation options.

The learning journey

From first words to confident participation.

Communities can organize learning around proficiency, topics, age groups, family use, seasonal programs, or their own framework.

01

Discover

Choose a pathway that matches goals, level, and available learning time.

02

Listen and learn

Build understanding through language, voices, stories, images, and cultural context.

03

Practise

Reinforce learning with repetition, activities, reflection, and guided feedback.

04

Participate

Carry language into family, community, teaching, and everyday conversation.

Product roadmap

Developed with pilot partners, not behind closed doors.

The LMS is in an early product stage. Meridian is looking for organizations and educators willing to validate priorities, workflows, governance needs, and the learning experience.

Phase 01

Community discovery

Understand teaching models, learner needs, content practices, access rules, and success measures.

Phase 02

Core platform

Develop course, media, user-role, progress, and foundational administration capabilities.

Phase 03

Pilot and refine

Test real learning journeys with pilot groups and improve usability, governance, and reporting.

Phase 04

Broader availability

Prepare implementation, support, privacy, accessibility, and onboarding materials for wider adoption.

Questions

What to know at this stage.

Is the Heritage Language LMS available now?

Not yet. It is in development, and the page describes the current product direction rather than a finished feature set or committed release date.

Can a community shape how the platform works?

That is the intent of the pilot process. Meridian wants to validate language-learning formats, roles, permissions, governance, reporting, and accessibility with participating organizations before broader release.

Will it support more than one language?

Multilingual content and interface flexibility are part of the planned direction. The supported scripts, language pairs, and authoring workflows will be confirmed through technical discovery and pilots.

How will community content be protected?

The product direction prioritizes configurable roles, approval, attribution, access controls, privacy, and clear product agreements. Specific safeguards and hosting arrangements will be documented before a pilot handles real community content.

Help shape the platform

Bring your teaching experience and community priorities into the conversation.

If your organization teaches or supports a heritage language, Meridian would like to understand what an LMS must do—and what it must respect—to be genuinely useful.

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