Education Edition exclusive features

This is the list of features that are available exclusively to the Education Edition. This is comparison between the Bedrock Edition and Education Edition.

General

• Tutorial worlds
  • Guide players on in-game navigation, crafting, and placing or breaking blocks.
  • Include the World of Chemistry
• Lessons
  • Downloadable from education.minecraft.net
• 3D Exporting
  • Allow players to use their creations in the real world and share them via Remix 3D
• Classroom Mode
  • A companion app for Minecraft that shows a high-level map view of the world, a list of all the students, the ability for a teacher to teleport students, and a chat window to communicate.
  • It is provided for Educators who may want to observe student activity without being in the game, and is not needed for students to play.
• Code Connection
  • An extension that allows educators and students to explore, create, and play in an immersive Minecraft world – all by writing code.
• Easy Classroom Collaboration
  • An entire classroom of up to thirty (30) students can play in a world together with no separate server setup required.
  • Students can work together in pairs or groups simply by joining their classmates’ world.
• Simple, Secure sign-in
  • Individual student and teacher logins with Office 365 Education accounts ensure data privacy & security while playing Minecraft: Education Edition.

Commands

Main article: Commands

Blocks & Items

• Element Constructor
  • It allows the creation of elements based on their atomic structure with sliders to choose the number of protons, neutrons and electrons.
  • There are 118 elements from the Periodic Table as well as over 400 stable isotopes.
• Compound Creator
  • Add elements to the grid and the resulting compound will appear to use
  • There are over 30 compounds that can be created with this tool – from luminol and hydrogen peroxide to charcoal and soap.
• Lab Table
  • It allows the creation of items by combining elements and compounds in a grid.
  • For example, adding water and sodium hypochlorite makes bleach, which a player can use to turn wool white.
• Material Reducer
  • It reduces a block to its component elements, providing a useful way to explore the elements that make up our environment.
  • Since some blocks in Minecraft do not exist in the natural world, there is a “?” element for these to encourage curiosity of learners.
• Speciality blocks
  • Border
  • Allow and Deny Blocks
• Camera
  • Allows students to take screenshots of their work.
• Portfolio
  • Allow students to document the development of their projects.
• Chalkboard
  • Allow creators to communicate learning goals, provide additional information and give explicit instructions within the game.
  • It comes in three different sizes – Slate (1×1), Poster (2×1), and Board (2×3).
• Balloon
  • When attached to mobs, will levitate them. Will levitate when placed.
• Underwater TNT
  • TNT that can function underwater.

Mobs & Entities

• Non-Player Characters
  • 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.
• Agent
  • Another type of NPC.