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Lectern
The learning management system with a tutor inside. An alternative to Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard.
Lectern is the platform Square 1 teaches on, productised: courses, cohorts, live classes, assignments and grades, with an AI tutor that grades every submission and explains the grade. Built for the schools, universities and training providers that want more than a filing cabinet for PDFs.
An alternative to Canvas, Moodle and Blackboard.
- Who it is for
- Schools, universities, bootcamps, RTOs and corporate academies running courses on an LMS today, and the teachers who have to live in it.
- Why Square 1
- We run our own courses, cohorts, live bootcamps and grading on this engine already. The LMS is not a plan; it is what we teach on, with the door opened for other institutions.
In development. A demo is 30 minutes online with a founder.
What it will do.
Lectern is in development. This is what a demo shows, as it stands and as it is being built.
- Courses, modules, cohorts, assignments and grades, in a shell teachers and students actually like using.
- A tutor on every course: graded feedback on each submission, with the reasoning shown to the learner and the teacher.
- Live classes on Zoom with attendance, recordings and the register handled for you.
- Progress by skill, not just by completion: where each learner is, dimension by dimension.
- Single sign-on, roles, the audit trail an institution asks for, and an export of everything.
What it is not.
So nobody books the wrong demo.
- A content library. You bring the curriculum, or use ours.
- A video host with quizzes.
If yours is close but not this, book the demo anyway and say so.
Book a demo call.
Two steps. Tell us who you are and why you want the demo, then pick a time. 30 minutes online with a founder, and there is nothing to buy and nothing to sign.
Step 1 of 2
Tell us who you are.
We take you through Lectern from a teacher's seat and a student's: a course, an assignment, the tutor's grading, a live class, and how your existing courses would move across.
Step 2 of 2
Pick a time.
30 min · online
With a founder, at a time that suits you. We show you Lectern and answer whatever you bring.
Submit step 1 first and your name and email are filled in for you here. You can also book straight away.