Spotify Courses: Course Validations

Together with Spotify, we want to help you take your content to new audiences through an exciting new channel! Spotify has specific course requirements so we’ve added some content validation into the Spotify Course Settings to help you understand what is and is not supported by Spotify.

About Course Validations

Validating your course is one of the last steps in ensuring your course meets all of Spotify’s requirements before being submitted for review. Whether you've completed editing your course or wish to save and resume later, you can access your Spotify Course Settings & Course Validation anytime to ensure you’re on the right track.

How Course Validations Work

The course validator will automatically run a validation check on your course content, course details, and Spotify profile against Spotify’s course requirements. This process will create a list of action items that will require your attention before your course is submitted to Spotify. If there are issues within your course content, a direct link will be provided for you to address the validation errors within the specific lesson. Once you've addressed all errors, you can re-run the validation to ensure your course has met all requirements. You won’t be able to submit your course for publishing to Spotify until your course has passed all validation criteria.

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How to Validation Your Course

Draft-state lessons are not taken into account during the course validation process. To ensure that all desired course content is considered, make sure none of the content is in draft before initiating the validation process.

Click on Spotify from your Thinkific Admin Dashboard
Select a course to validate
Click on the ellipsis and select Settings
Wait for the course validator to generate a list of action items
Click Update on any action item to edit lesson errors
Go to your Course Details to complete all required fields
Go to your Spotify Profile to complete all required fields
Click Validate Course or refresh the page to re-run the validation process
Click Submit to Review to send your course to Spotify for review

Troubleshooting Course Validation Errors

Lesson has unsupported text content

One of your video lessons has content within the Add Text field. Text content is currently not supported on Spotify. We recommend saving any necessary text information or supplemental course content as downloadable files and attaching them to the video lesson. Your files should be 2GB max.

If you do not see any text in the text editor and the lesson is still not valid, click on code view <> and delete any text before saving the lesson.

Lesson is an unsupported lesson type

Only video lessons are supported at the moment for Spotify courses. All other lesson types must be removed or reworked into a video lesson. You can attach any additional content as a downloadable file to your video lessons.

You can add downloadable files to your course on the Course Settings page if your content is not lesson-specific. This is a great option for required course materials, such as handouts and course reference materials. These downloadable files will only be accessible after purchase.

Course does not have a minimum of 4 lessons

Your first 2 lessons will be free for all users to access on Spotify. Because your first 2 lessons are free, there is a required minimum of 4 lessons in a course. Create additional video lessons to meet this requirement.

Creator profile details are missing

You can edit your profile up until you submit your first course to Spotify. Please ensure your profile is completed before submitting your course for review.

Your Spotify profile has incomplete fields. All the required fields (*) must be completed before the course is approved.