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{{Q|A game-based learning platform supporting thousands of educators in over 100 countries!|[[minecraft.net]]|Minecraft: Education Edition}}
 
{{Q|A game-based learning platform supporting thousands of educators in over 100 countries!|[[minecraft.net]]|Minecraft: Education Edition}}
   
 
'''''Minecraft: Education Edition''''' is an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. It is being developed by [[Mojang Studios]] and {{w|Xbox Game Studios}} and contains features that make ''[[Minecraft]]'' easy to use in a classroom setting. The full game was released on November 1, 2016.<ref name=EducationBlogPost/> There was a beta test between June 9 and November 1, 2016.
 
'''''Minecraft: Education Edition''''' is an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. It is being developed by [[Mojang Studios]] and {{w|Xbox Game Studios}} and contains features that make ''[[Minecraft]]'' easy to use in a classroom setting. The full game was released on November 1, 2016.<ref name=EducationBlogPost/> There was a beta test between June 9 and November 1, 2016.
   
On August 20, 2018, Mojang Studios announced that it would bring Education Edition to iPad in Autumn 2018.<ref>{{citation|url=https://education.minecraft.net/ipad|title=Minecraft: Education Edition Now Available for iPad|website=Education.Minecraft.net}}</ref> Microsoft stated that licensed users would be able to play starting in September.<ref>[https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/minecraft-education-edition-ipad-whats-new-in-edu What's New in EDU: Minecraft: Education Edition expands to iPad - August 20. 2018]</ref> It was released to the App Store on September 6, 2018.
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On August 20, 2018, [[Mojang Studios]] announced that it would bring ''Education Edition'' to [[wikipedia:IPad|iPad]] in Autumn 2018.<ref>{{citation|url=https://education.minecraft.net/ipad|title=Minecraft: Education Edition Now Available for iPad|website=Education.Minecraft.net}}</ref> Microsoft stated that licensed users would be able to play starting in September.<ref>[https://educationblog.microsoft.com/2018/08/minecraft-education-edition-ipad-whats-new-in-edu What's New in EDU: Minecraft: Education Edition expands to iPad - August 20. 2018]</ref> It was released to the App Store on September 6, 2018.
   
On March 27, 2019, it was announced that the Education Edition would be operated by {{w|JD.com}} in China.<ref>{{link |url=https://technode.com/2019/03/28/jd-cloud-lands-exclusive-rights-to-minecraft-education-edition-in-china |title=JD Cloud lands exclusive rights to 'Minecraft: Education Edition' in China |website=TechNode |author=Nicole Jao |date=March 28, 2019}}</ref>
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On March 27, 2019, it was announced that the ''Education Edition'' would be operated by {{w|JD.com}} in China.<ref>{{link |url=https://technode.com/2019/03/28/jd-cloud-lands-exclusive-rights-to-minecraft-education-edition-in-china |title=JD Cloud lands exclusive rights to 'Minecraft: Education Edition' in China |website=TechNode |author=Nicole Jao |date=March 28, 2019}}</ref>
   
On June 26, 2020, an Education Edition Public Beta was made available to Google Play Store compatible Chromebooks. The full game was released to the Google Play Store for Chromebooks on August 7, 2020.<ref>{{citation|url=https://education.minecraft.net/chromebook|title=Minecraft: Education Edition for Chromebook|website=Education.Minecraft.net}}</ref>
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On June 26, 2020, an ''Education Edition Public Beta'' was made available to [https://play.google.com Google Play Store] compatible [[wikipedia:Chromebook|Chromebooks]]. The full game was released to the [https://play.google.com Google Play Store] for compatible [[wikipedia:Chromebook|Chromebooks]] on August 7, 2020.<ref>{{citation|url=https://education.minecraft.net/chromebook|title=Minecraft: Education Edition for Chromebook|website=Education.Minecraft.net}}</ref>
   
 
== Features ==
 
== Features ==
 
{{main|Education Edition exclusive features}}
 
{{main|Education Edition exclusive features}}
   
''Education Edition'' is based on {{el|be}}<ref>{{reddit|41o4gd/announcing_minecraft_education_edition|cz42o0j|We'll try at first to bring them back to PE/Win10 as that's a lot easier since it's the same codebase, but of course anything we bring back should make sense for PC as well!|mojang_tommo}}</ref> and contains features that make Minecraft more accessible and effective in a classroom setting, including:
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''Education Edition'' is based on ''{{el|be}}''<ref>{{reddit|41o4gd/announcing_minecraft_education_edition|cz42o0j|We'll try at first to bring them back to PE/Win10 as that's a lot easier since it's the same codebase, but of course anything we bring back should make sense for PC as well!|mojang_tommo}}</ref> and contains features that make ''Minecraft'' more accessible and effective in a classroom setting, including:
 
* Easy classroom collaboration: Educators have told us that one of the greatest benefits of ''Minecraft: Education Edition'' is the ability for students to collaborate to build projects and solve problems. An entire classroom of up to 30 students can play in a world together with no separate server setup required. Or students can work together in pairs or groups simply by joining their classmates' world.
 
* Easy classroom collaboration: Educators have told us that one of the greatest benefits of ''Minecraft: Education Edition'' is the ability for students to collaborate to build projects and solve problems. An entire classroom of up to 30 students can play in a world together with no separate server setup required. Or students can work together in pairs or groups simply by joining their classmates' world.
 
* Non-player characters: An educator may create an {{EntityLink|NPC}} to act as a guide for students in the game, giving instruction, providing more information, and also allowing educators to insert an active web link to additional references.
 
* Non-player characters: An educator may create an {{EntityLink|NPC}} to act as a guide for students in the game, giving instruction, providing more information, and also allowing educators to insert an active web link to additional references.
* {{BlockLink|Camera}} + {{ItemLink|portfolio}}: An important aspect of teaching with '''Minecraft''' is being able to collect evidence of learning in the game, and being able to track student progression. The camera and portfolio features allow students to take screenshots of their work and document the development of their projects.
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* {{BlockLink|Camera}} + {{ItemLink|portfolio}}: An important aspect of teaching with ''Minecraft'' is being able to collect evidence of learning in the game, and being able to track student progression. The camera and portfolio features allow students to take screenshots of their work and document the development of their projects.
 
* {{BlockLink|Chalkboard}}s: Creators can use chalkboards to communicate learning goals, provide additional information and give explicit instructions within the game. Chalkboards come in three different sizes – {{ItemSprite|slate}} (1×1), {{ItemSprite|poster}} (2×1), and {{ItemSprite|board}} (2×3).
 
* {{BlockLink|Chalkboard}}s: Creators can use chalkboards to communicate learning goals, provide additional information and give explicit instructions within the game. Chalkboards come in three different sizes – {{ItemSprite|slate}} (1×1), {{ItemSprite|poster}} (2×1), and {{ItemSprite|board}} (2×3).
* Tutorial world: For educators or students new to Minecraft, a tutorial world is available that guides players on in-game navigation, crafting, and placing or breaking blocks.
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* Tutorial world: For educators or students new to ''Minecraft'', a tutorial world is available that guides players on in-game navigation, crafting, and placing or breaking blocks.
 
* {{BlockLink|Allow}} and {{BlockLink|deny}} blocks: These blocks allow the educator (or a player with World Builder privileges) to place specific areas where players can or cannot build.
 
* {{BlockLink|Allow}} and {{BlockLink|deny}} blocks: These blocks allow the educator (or a player with World Builder privileges) to place specific areas where players can or cannot build.
* {{BlockLink|Border}} blocks: These blocks prevent players from entering or leaving a specific area. The range of influence extends the full range of the Y coordinate from wherever the block is placed on the x & z coordinate. It is the same shape as a cobblestone wall but with a smooth, red texture and red particle effects.
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* {{BlockLink|Border}} blocks: These blocks prevent players from entering or leaving a specific area. The range of influence extends the full range of the Y coordinate from wherever the block is placed on the x & z coordinate. It is the same shape as a cobblestone wall but with a smooth, red texture and red particle effects. Note: These blocks can be bypassed using ender pearls or chorus fruit.
 
* Classroom mode: This is a complimentary program to ''Education Edition'' and allows educators a master view of the map (including the locations of all players), communicate with players via chat (and monitor the chat), and turn off/on some world settings.
 
* Classroom mode: This is a complimentary program to ''Education Edition'' and allows educators a master view of the map (including the locations of all players), communicate with players via chat (and monitor the chat), and turn off/on some world settings.
 
* Additional item hotbar: There is a smaller hotbar with three additional slots that can be enabled for players by the educator. This smaller hotbar rests to the right-side of the main hotbar and educators can populate this hotbar with items.
 
* Additional item hotbar: There is a smaller hotbar with three additional slots that can be enabled for players by the educator. This smaller hotbar rests to the right-side of the main hotbar and educators can populate this hotbar with items.
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* 16 GB available hard disk space or 20 GB
 
* 16 GB available hard disk space or 20 GB
 
* DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
 
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== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==
 
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Revision as of 16:59, 12 January 2021

Not to be confused with MinecraftEdu.

A game-based learning platform supporting thousands of educators in over 100 countries!

minecraft.net on Minecraft: Education Edition

Minecraft: Education Edition is an educational version of Minecraft specifically designed for classroom use. It is being developed by Mojang Studios and Xbox Game Studios and contains features that make Minecraft easy to use in a classroom setting. The full game was released on November 1, 2016.[3] There was a beta test between June 9 and November 1, 2016.

On August 20, 2018, Mojang Studios announced that it would bring Education Edition to iPad in Autumn 2018.[4] Microsoft stated that licensed users would be able to play starting in September.[5] It was released to the App Store on September 6, 2018.

On March 27, 2019, it was announced that the Education Edition would be operated by JD.com in China.[6]

On June 26, 2020, an Education Edition Public Beta was made available to Google Play Store compatible Chromebooks. The full game was released to the Google Play Store for compatible Chromebooks on August 7, 2020.[7]

Features

Education Edition is based on 'Bedrock Edition'[8] and contains features that make Minecraft more accessible and effective in a classroom setting, including:

  • Easy classroom collaboration: Educators have told us that one of the greatest benefits of Minecraft: Education Edition is the ability for students to collaborate to build projects and solve problems. An entire classroom of up to 30 students can play in a world together with no separate server setup required. Or students can work together in pairs or groups simply by joining their classmates' world.
  • Non-player characters: An educator may create an NPC to act as a guide for students in the game, giving instruction, providing more information, and also allowing educators to insert an active web link to additional references.
  • Camera + portfolio: An important aspect of teaching with Minecraft is being able to collect evidence of learning in the game, and being able to track student progression. The camera and portfolio features allow students to take screenshots of their work and document the development of their projects.
  • Chalkboards: Creators can use chalkboards to communicate learning goals, provide additional information and give explicit instructions within the game. Chalkboards come in three different sizes – (1×1), (2×1), and (2×3).
  • Tutorial world: For educators or students new to Minecraft, a tutorial world is available that guides players on in-game navigation, crafting, and placing or breaking blocks.
  • Allow and deny blocks: These blocks allow the educator (or a player with World Builder privileges) to place specific areas where players can or cannot build.
  • Border blocks: These blocks prevent players from entering or leaving a specific area. The range of influence extends the full range of the Y coordinate from wherever the block is placed on the x & z coordinate. It is the same shape as a cobblestone wall but with a smooth, red texture and red particle effects. Note: These blocks can be bypassed using ender pearls or chorus fruit.
  • Classroom mode: This is a complimentary program to Education Edition and allows educators a master view of the map (including the locations of all players), communicate with players via chat (and monitor the chat), and turn off/on some world settings.
  • Additional item hotbar: There is a smaller hotbar with three additional slots that can be enabled for players by the educator. This smaller hotbar rests to the right-side of the main hotbar and educators can populate this hotbar with items.
  • Code builder and the agent: A complimentary program to Education Edition that allows students to write code in a code editor and The Agent then executes the code in the program. This was a newly announced feature and was implemented in 1.0.1.
  • New /ability command allows the player to modify permissions of players such as the World Builder permission, MayFly allows the player to enable/disable fly in all game modes, and mute allows the player to mute another player. Abilities are similar to gamerules, except they apply to a player rather than the entire world.
  • A new immutable World gamerule, if true it prevents any players who are not teachers (or who don't have worldbuilder permissions) from breaking or placing any blocks unless they are on top of an allow block.
  • World builder is an ability that can be applied to a player to allow bypassing the functions of border blocks and deny blocks.

Lesson plans

Lesson plans through Education Edition are available to download and are split between certain age groups and various subjects such as history, visual arts, and gaming. Additionally, educators can upload lesson plans that they have created for others to use from the main website.

Pricing

The full game costs US$5 (4.21, £3.84, AU$6.37) per user per year to use, depending on school size and if qualifications for volume licensing are met. Volume pricing for school-wide deployments and large-scale academic institutions is also planned. Schools and districts that already have MinecraftEdu can get the Education Edition for free.

It was announced on May 2, 2017, that schools and educational institutions that purchase new Windows 10 devices receive a free year of Minecraft: Education Edition.[9]

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to purchase Education Edition, a player must meet the following requirements (as seen on Tech Specs):

  • An eligible educator must be a full-time or part-time faculty or staff member at an academic institution and have a school-specific email address provided by the school that can receive external email.
  • An eligible district or school must be a qualified education user, defined as an accredited institution organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of teaching its enrolled students.
  • An eligible public library must provide general library services without charge to all residents of a given community, district, or region.
  • An eligible public museum must be an agency or institution organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational or aesthetic purposes and utilize a professional staff to exhibit tangible objects to the public on a regular basis.
  • Finally, an eligible home-school program must provide K-12 education to a student or students with written proof that it either belongs to a nationally recognized home-schooling organization or is expressly recognized by a local school district as an acceptable alternative to an accredited or state-recognized/approved educational institution.

Availability

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Availability of Minecraft: Education Edition

The following chart shows the country availability and language availability for Minecraft: Education Edition.

System requirements

Minimum system requirements (according to Tech Specs):

Windows

  • 1 GHz or faster 32-bit or 64-bit processor
  • 1 GB RAM or 2 GB RAM
  • 16 GB available hard disk space or 20 GB
  • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
  • Intel Uhd 920 Graphics

macOS

Additionally, a Microsoft 365 account is required to log into Education Edition.

iOS and iPadOS

  • iOS 8 or later

Chrome OS

  • Chrome OS version 81 or newer.
  • Device that supports Play Store apps.
  • ~500 MB Hard Drive storage free (250MB client + Space for worlds) per account on the device.

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