For teachers - go Minecraft: Education Edition

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Applies to:

  • Windows 10

The post-obit article describes how teachers tin can become and distribute Minecraft: Instruction Edition. Minecraft: Education Edition is available for anyone to trial, and subscriptions tin exist purchased by qualified educational institutions directly in the Microsoft Store for Education, via book licensing agreements and through partner resellers.

To get started, get to https://educational activity.minecraft.net/ and select Get STARTED.

Try Minecraft: Education Edition for Free

Minecraft: Pedagogy Edition is available for anyone to try for free! The free trial is fully functional merely express by the number of logins (25 for teachers and 10 for students) before a paid license volition be required to continue playing.

To learn more and become started, become to https://education.minecraft.internet/ and select GET STARTED.

Purchase Minecraft: Education Edition for Teachers and Students

Minecraft: Didactics Edition is licensed via yearly subscriptions that are purchased through the Microsoft Store for Education, via volume licensing agreements and through partner resellers.

Annotation

M:EE is available on many platforms, but all license purchases tin can just be done through one of the three methods listed above.

As a teacher, y'all may purchase subscription licenses for yous and your students directly through the Microsoft Store for Pedagogy, or yous may already have access to licenses at your school (through a volume license agreement) if yous take an Office 365 account.

Note

If yous already have Office 365, you may already have Minecraft: Education Edition licenses for your schoolhouse! Yard:EE is included in many volume license agreements, still, only the administrators at your school will be able to assign and manage those licenses. If you have an Office 365 account, bank check with your schoolhouse assistants or Information technology administrator prior to purchasing M:EE direct.

Yous tin can purchase individual Minecraft: Education Edition subscriptions for you and other teachers and students directly in the Microsoft Store for Education.

To purchase private Minecraft: Educational activity Edition subscriptions (that is, direct buy):

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Store for Instruction with your Function 365 account.
  2. Click on Minecraft: Didactics Edition (or use Search the Store to find it)
  3. Click Buy

Note

Administrators can restrict the ability for teachers to purchase applications in the Microsoft Store for Instruction. If y'all practise not take the power to Buy, contact your school administration or IT administrator.

Distribute Minecraft

Afterward Minecraft: Didactics Edition licenses have been purchased, either direct, through a volume license agreement or through a partner reseller, those licenses will be added to your Microsoft Store for Education. From there you have three options:

  • You can install the app on your PC.
  • You can assign the app to others.
  • You can download the app to distribute.

Install for me

You tin can install the app on your PC. This gives you a adventure to piece of work with the app earlier using information technology with your students.

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Store for Education.

  2. Click Manage, and then click Install.

  3. Click Install.

Assign to others

Enter email addresses for your students, and each student will go an email with a link to install the app. This option is best for older, more tech-savvy students who will always use the aforementioned PC at school.

To assign to others

  1. Sign in to Microsoft Shop for Education.

  2. Click Manage.

  3. Click Invite people.

  4. Blazon the name, or electronic mail address of the pupil or group you want to assign the app to, and then click Assign.

    Assign to people showing student name.

    Yous can assign the app to students with piece of work or school accounts.
    If you don't find the student, y'all can still assign the app to them if cocky-service sign upwards is supported for your domain. Students will receive an email with a link to Microsoft 365 admin eye where they tin can create an account, and then install Minecraft: Education Edition. Questions about self-service sign up? Check with your admin.

To finish Minecraft install (for students)

Students will receive an email with a link that will install the app on their PC.

Email with Get the app link.

  1. Click Get the app to start the app install in Microsoft Store app.

  2. In Microsoft Store app, click Install.

    Microsoft Store app with Minecraft page.

    After installing the app, students can find Minecraft: Education Edition in Microsoft Store app under My Library.

    Microsoft Store app directing the navigation to My Library.

    When students click My Library they'll find apps assigned to them.

    My Library for example student.

Download for others

Download for others allows teachers or Information technology admins to download packages that they can install on student PCs. This choice will install Minecraft: Educational activity Edition on the PC, and allows anyone with a Windows business relationship to utilise the app on that PC. This option is best for students, and for shared computers. Choose this pick when:

  • You have authoritative permissions to install apps on the PC.
  • You desire to install this app on each of your student's Windows 10 (at to the lowest degree version 1511) PCs.
  • Your students share Windows 10 computers, but sign in with their own Windows account.

Requirements

  • Administrative permissions are required on the PC. If you don't have the right permissions, you won't be able to install the app.
  • Windows 10 (at least version 1511) is required for PCs running Minecraft: Education Edition.

Check for updates

Minecraft: Education Edition won't install if at that place are updates pending for other apps on the PC. Before installing Minecraft, check to see if there are pending updates for Microsoft Store apps.

To check for app updates

  1. Start Microsoft Store app on the PC (click Start, and blazon Store).

  2. Click the account button, and then click Downloads and updates.

    Microsoft Store app displaying the navigation to the My Library option.

  3. Click Bank check for updates, and install all available updates.

    Microsoft Store app directing the navigation to the My Library submenu item.

  4. Restart the computer before installing Minecraft: Education Edition.

To download for others

You'll download a .nothing file, extract the files, and then utilise one of the files to install Minecraft: Didactics Edition on each PC.

  1. Download Minecraft Pedagogy Edition.zip. From the Minecraft: Education Edition folio, click Download for others tab, and then click Download.

    Microsoft Store app depicting the navigation path to the My Library option.

  2. Excerpt files. Find the .zip file that you downloaded and excerpt the files. This downloaded location is normally your Downloads binder, unless you chose to salve the .nix file to a different location. Right-click the file and choose Extract all.

  3. Save to USB bulldoze. After you've extracted the files, save the Minecraft: Education Edition folder to a USB drive, or to a network location that y'all can admission from each PC.

  4. Install app. Apply the USB drive to copy the Minecraft folder to each Windows 10 PC where you want to install Minecraft: Education Edition. Open Minecraft: Educational activity Edition folder, right-click InstallMinecraftEducationEdition.bat and click Run as ambassador.

  5. Quick bank check. The install programme checks the PC to make sure it tin can run Minecraft: Education Edition. If your PC passes this examination, the app will automatically install.

  6. Restart. Once installation is complete, restart each PC. Minecraft: Education Edition app is now ready for any pupil to utilise.

Troubleshoot

If you ran InstallMinecraftEducationEdition.bat and Minecraft: Educational activity Edition isn't available, in that location are a few things that might have happened.

Problem Possible cause Solution
Script ran, but it doesn't look similar the app installed. There might exist pending app updates. Check for app updates (see steps earlier in this topic).
Install updates.
Restart PC.
Run InstallMinecraftEducationEdition.bat again.
App won't install. AppLocker is configured and preventing app installs. Contact It Admin.
App won't install. Policy prevents users from installing apps on the PC. Contact It Admin.
Script starts, just stops quickly. Policy prevents scripts from running on the PC. Contact Information technology Admin.
App isn't available for other users. No restart after install. If you don't restart the PC, and simply switch users the app won't be available. Restart PC.
Run InstallMinecraftEducationEdition.bat again.
If a restart doesn't piece of work, contact your It Admin.

If you're still having problem installing the app, yous tin can go more help on our Support folio.

Working with Microsoft Store for Pedagogy
Learn virtually overall Microsoft Store for Business concern management: manage settings, shop for apps, distribute apps, manage inventory, and manage club history. Go Minecraft: Education Edition For Information technology admins: get Minecraft: Pedagogy Edition