The Music Therapy Exchange
Concept · not yet builtContinuing education, built into the platform. A walkthrough of what it would include — and what each screen could look like.
The idea
Board-certified music therapists recertify every five years, and need 100 continuing-education credits each cycle — 3 of them in ethics. Today they hunt those credits across scattered providers, then track them by hand. The CMTE Hub puts the courses, the certificates, and the credit-tracking in one place — right alongside the resources they already come here for.
A resource on the Exchange today is a file you download. A CMTE course is different: it is something you complete, and finishing it produces two things — a certificate, and credit toward recertification. That is what these new screens are for.
How it works
Buy a course the same way you buy any resource.
Work through its modules at your own pace.
A short post-test confirms you completed it.
A certificate is issued; the credit lands in your transcript.
Feature 1 — Discover
A dedicated section, with the same easy browsing as the resource marketplace — filter by topic, population, or credit count. Every course shows exactly how many credits it carries, and ethics courses are flagged, since those three credits are the hardest to find.
Earn CMTE credits toward your recertification cycle.
Mockup — the catalogue reuses the marketplace's existing filters and card layout.
Feature 2 — The course page
Like a product page, tuned for a course: credit value front and centre, the module outline, what they will learn, and the provider's CBMT approval details — so a therapist knows, before paying, that it counts.
Mockup — approval details are shown openly, because therapists check for them.
Feature 3 — The course player
A simple player: work through each module, mark it done, and move on. The course finishes with a short post-test — CBMT credit requires completing the full course, so the test is the gate that unlocks the certificate.
Mockup — modules can be text, slides, or video; the post-test confirms completion.
Feature 4 — Certificates
The moment a course is passed, a certificate is generated — course, credit hours, date, the provider's approval number, and a unique verification ID. The therapist keeps it on file; CBMT audits are random, so the paper trail matters.
Mockup — downloadable as a PDF, verifiable by ID.
Feature 5 — Your credit transcript
One running view of the whole five-year cycle: credits earned, ethics tracked separately, and progress toward 100 — with every certificate a click away. Courses give a therapist a reason to visit; the transcript gives them a reason to stay.
Recertification cycle · Apr 2023 – Apr 2028
Mockup — the credit-tracking is the stickiest part of the whole hub.
For course creators
Course creators get a builder alongside the resource editor they already use — add modules, write the post-test, set the credit value, and enter their CBMT provider details. When learners finish, the platform exports the participant completion list, so an Approved Provider can file CBMT's reporting form without re-keying a thing.
The Exchange would deliver courses, track completion, and issue certificates — but it does not grant CMTE credit. CBMT does, through its Approved Provider system. So there is one decision to make early: do individual course creators bring their own CBMT provider approval, or does The Music Therapy Exchange become an Approved Provider itself? The first scales the way the marketplace already does; the second centralises it. We would build for the first, with room for the second.
How we'd build it
The CMTE Hub is a meaningful build — a second product mode on top of the marketplace — so it is best delivered in stages.
The course type, modules, and the self-paced player. Text and slide lessons first; video later.
The quiz that gates completion, and automatic, verifiable certificate generation.
Five-year cycle tracking, ethics counted separately, progress toward 100.
The course builder and the CBMT participant-reporting export.