Minecraft: Education Edition (Guides attached)

Minecraft: Education Edition is an open-world game that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.

The Education Edition differs from the standard version of Minecraft in that it provides a safe, shared learning environment where only students within a class and/or school can collaborate.

Students will have the opportunity to be immersed in interactive virtual learning experiences that directly link and expand on the subjects being taught in the classroom. Teachers can also use the program to engage students, meet their learning needs and build their skills around a particular subject such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), history, geography or coding.

Minecraft: Education Edition is provided under the five year Microsoft Education Licensing Agreement. The software is a cloud service hosted by Microsoft on the internet, and is accessed through the Department's centrally provided Office 365 service.

• All Victorian government school staff can already connect to Office 365 and Minecraft: Education Edition using their Department username and password.

• Students in Victorian government schools need to be provided with their Department eduPass username and password to access Minecraft: Education Edition. eduPass accounts additionally provide students with access to a range of centrally provided services such as the eduSTAR Wi-Fi network, eduSTAR Catalogue, Office 365, Google Apps, and Secondary school software suite titles such as Stile, Lynda.com and Adobe Creative Suite. Instructions for providing students with eduPass accounts are provided further below.

Additional information

• Minecraft: Education Edition is different from the personal version of Minecraft and requires an installer made available via the eduSTAR Catalogue. Minecraft: Education Edition is available for use on Windows 10 and macOS.

• For individual computer issues (e.g. can't access Minecraft: Education Edition on a single computer, but will on others) – consider checking the student has the right software installed, and has access to Office 365 in the eduSTAR Management Centre > Cloud management console. Office 365 access is required as it is used as part of the Single Sign-on solution for access to Minecraft: Education Edition.

• The eduSTAR service operations team will continue to provide support for whole of state systemic issues via the Department Service Desk.