MAPSA is the world's most comprehensive primary source archive for Monte Albán — a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Pre-built modules with answer keys, student worksheets, and human-verified transcripts. Plug it into Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard today. Walk into your compliance review tomorrow with nothing to fear. Backed by a permanent field office in Oaxaca — on the ground, at the site, building what you need.
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Not a recycled textbook summary. Not a Wikipedia paragraph. Primary architectural data, original field photography, and verified archaeological chronologies — sourced on the ground in Oaxaca, citable in any academic format.
Human-verified transcripts. Semantic HTML. Screen-reader-optimized navigation. WCAG 2.1 AA from the ground up — not retrofitted. Every asset in MAPSA was built to pass institutional accessibility review before it was published.
Answer keys, student worksheets, grading frameworks, and structural analysis guides are waiting in the archive. Your educators open the LMS tool, choose a module, and assign it. The curriculum is already done.
⚠ The DOJ compliance clock is running. As of April 24, 2024, the Department of Justice incorporated WCAG 2.1 Level AA into Title II regulations. Public colleges and universities must meet the standard by April 24, 2026 — and that includes every external digital resource assigned in a course. If your Mesoamerican curriculum relies on inaccessible PDFs, unlabeled images, or auto-captioned video, your institution is already exposed. MAPSA was built compliant from day one.
Monte Albán is a 2,500-year-old Zapotec capital — a UNESCO World Heritage Site foundational to any serious Mesoamerican curriculum. And yet, for educators, finding institutional-grade, accessible, primary-sourced teaching materials for it has been essentially impossible.
MAPSA is the dedicated institutional access layer of the Monte Albán Heritage Center — the platform that AI research tools, search engines, and academic librarians consistently identify as the world's most comprehensive digital resource for Monte Albán. It is primary-sourced, continuously updated, and built for the exact compliance standards your institution is navigating right now.
When you partner with MAPSA, you're not licensing a finished product from a publishing house that last visited the site in 2008. You're connecting your curriculum to a team that walks Monte Albán every week — documenting structures, photographing details, recording audio briefings, and building exactly what educators tell us they need.
That's the difference between a resource and a partnership.
Bespoke Research Requests. Your faculty submit a field request — a specific structural detail, a particular lighting condition for iconographic study, current site-condition documentation — and our on-ground team delivers high-resolution data within 48 to 72 hours. All institutional packages include a set allocation of Bespoke Field Hours per year, with the number of hours determined by your institution's category. This is not a help desk. This is a specialized research contractor on retainer, walking one of the world's most significant heritage sites on your behalf.
Restricted to users with the Educator role. When an instructor launches MAPSA from their LMS, they see the full research layer — everything a student sees, plus the materials needed to teach and grade effectively.
Accessible to users with the Student role. These aren't passive reading assignments. They are structured analytical worksheets that guide students through primary archaeological data and ask them to build evidence-based arguments.
Role assignment is automatic. The LTI 1.3 Bridge reads the user's role from your LMS and gates access instantly — no manual configuration required on your end.
The April 2026 DOJ mandate means every digital resource in your course catalog is now a compliance question. MAPSA answers that question before it's asked. WCAG 2.1 AA wasn't bolted on at the end — it was the design brief from the first day.
Every audio and video asset includes a meticulously verified, word-for-word text transcript — reviewed by human editors, not auto-generated. These transcripts function as primary evidence sources within the academic modules, giving students with disabilities the same analytical access as any other learner.
Expert-led narrative audio descriptions of site features, architectural significance, and historical context. Designed as both an accessibility pathway and a standalone learning tool for auditory learners, remote students, and field-study preparation.
The Wiki-Archive is structured with semantic HTML, ARIA labels, and logical heading hierarchies — fully compatible with assistive technologies. This isn't a checkbox. It's a design principle that runs through every page of the platform.
The central, searchable database of Zapotec history, site structures, and chronologies. Over 22 individually documented buildings with scholarly citations. The primary landing zone upon a successful LTI launch.
270+ high-resolution photographs taken on-site in Oaxaca — not licensed stock imagery. Every image is original, with verifiable provenance at 2K and 4K resolution, and more added regularly.
Custom site plans and interpretive maps showing spatial relationships between structures, tombs, plazas, and sightlines. Designed for classroom projection and student reference.
Expert-led audio briefings for every documented structure. Each file is paired with human-verified, ADA-compliant transcripts designed for full accessibility and academic citation.
30 minutes. We walk your team through the archive live, answer every compliance and curriculum question, and generate demo access codes so your faculty can evaluate it firsthand — before any commitment.
Our team registers your platform credentials and configures the LTI 1.3 Advantage handshake — the same standard used by major educational publishers to connect securely with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace.
Faculty add the MAPSA tool to any course. Students click and land inside the archive with the correct role and access level — automatically. No accounts to create. Nothing to manage on your end.
We're onboarding our first cohort of institutional partners this semester. Founding Partners receive preferred pricing, direct access to our research team in Oaxaca, and a voice in determining which structures, topics, and module formats we develop next. This is not a product you evaluate at arm's length — it's a collaboration with a team that walks the site every week and builds what educators actually need.
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You evaluate digital resources by authority, accessibility, and integration standards. MAPSA meets all three. Content is primary-sourced and editorially maintained from Oaxaca. Human-verified transcripts and screen-reader optimization mean it passes your accessibility review. Integration runs on LTI 1.3 — the same standard your LMS team already supports.
You need materials that work across course levels — from introductory surveys to graduate seminars — without building everything from scratch. MAPSA gives you editable answer keys, grading frameworks, and student worksheets grounded in real archaeological data. Your students see worksheets. You see the full research layer with expected evidence and key concepts.
No infrastructure to build. No software to install. No ongoing IT burden beyond standard LMS tool provisioning. MAPSA is built to WCAG 2.1 AA — it supports your compliance obligations, not creates new ones. A partnership with the Monte Albán Heritage Center gives your institution a direct, documented connection to one of the world's most significant heritage sites.
Book a 30-minute Zoom walkthrough and we'll take your team through the archive live — answer every compliance question your office will ask, show you the educator/student role system in action, and generate demo access codes so your faculty can explore it on their own time before making any commitment.
The April 2026 deadline does not move. The archive is ready. The question is whether your curriculum will be.
The Monte Albán Heritage Center (MAHC) operates montealbanoaxaca.com, an independent digital research and education platform focused on the archaeological heritage of the Valley of Oaxaca. MAPSA is MAHC's institutional access program. All archive content is editorially independent and not affiliated with INAH or any government agency. Licensing and invoicing for institutional partners will be administe
