Step 1 – check the minimum requirements

Classroom Mode for Minecraft doesn’t have special requirements. It:

• is available for Windows and Mac
• uses single sign-on (schools email address)
• only needs to be installed on staff devices.

Step 2 – Ask your site leader to complete or review the cyber risk assessment

Minecraft Education has been endorsed as a whole of department enterprise solution available to all sites.
Before you start using this software, your site leader must have reviewed and accepted the cyber security risk assessment – Minecraft Education and approved it for use. It includes recommended strategies on how to mitigate risks.

Step 3 – consider procurement requirements

Classroom Mode for Minecraft is free for all schools and preschools as part of the department’s enterprise agreement with Microsoft (Microsoft Education A3 licence).

Step 4 – Talk to your site tech about how to install the software

Contact your school IT to organise the installation of Classroom Mode for Education on all devices of teachers and support staff who will use it. You can supervise more than one Minecraft world at a time with one teacher device.

If you have admin permission to install the software yourself you can install Classroom Mode on your device.

Use central deployment where possible

Step 5 – Log in

Staff can access Classroom Mode for Minecraft by logging in with their @schools email and password – Okta single sign-on may sign you in. (If working from outside the school network, you may need additional authentication as for all other Microsoft applications.)

Step 6 – Open Minecraft Education and enter your connection code

You can open Minecraft Education on your own machine or oversee worlds hosted by students with Classroom Mode for Minecraft.

First time user

Familiarise yourself with the interface and basic slash commands: find a list of essential slash commands on the Minecraft Education support site.

Using Classroom Mode for Minecraft with a world you’re hosting

1. Open Classroom Mode for Education and copy the connection code to your clipboard.
   
   
2. Open a world in Minecraft Education and select the host option (‘create new’).
3. Press ‘t’ to open the chat in your world.
4. Paste the connection code into the chat.
5. Still in Minecraft Education, press ‘escape’ (esc) and select the sharing tab to see the join code.
6. Distribute the 4-picture code to allow students to join your world.
   
   

Using Classroom Mode for Minecraft to monitor student-hosted worlds

For each world you need to monitor you need a separate instance of Classroom Mode open. You can open multiple instances of Classroom Mode via the start menu. This is useful when students are working in small groups to complete a task.

1. Open Classroom Mode and copy the connection code to your clipboard.
2. Distribute one connection code to each student hosting a Minecraft world. This might be via your LMS or you could project it on a screen for students to see.
3. Each student hosting a world will need to let the members of their group know the code for their world.
4. You‘ll see a map of each world and a list of the students in each instant of Classroom Mode you have open.

Built-in resources, online tutorials and self-help

These 2 video tutorials can help you connect and use Classroom Mode for Minecraft with your students:

• Installing Classroom Mode for Minecraft (1:22)
• Connecting Classroom Mode for Minecraft (2:41)

In-house training by the department

For support from the department join the Minecraft Education support team (on Microsoft Teams).

Other technology you can use with this tech

Support resources

Get Started with Classroom Mode – Minecraft Education

Cyber risk assessment

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Student safety and wellbeing

The nature of this space necessitates specific safety considerations. Here are key guidelines to protect your students and foster a positive learning environment in this digital space:

• Monitor online interactions – make sure to supervise multiplayer mode, especially if students are interacting on shared servers. Make sure students are aware of behaviour expectations.
• If you need to access the chat logs after a session has ended, they’re saved locally on your device: Documents\Minecraft Education Edition\ChatLogs.

Teleporting students: Use the map to teleport all students or individual players.

To teleport all players:

1. Right click on the map.
2. Select Teleport all here.

To teleport individual players:

1. Select the player’s name in the Player roster panel.
2. Drag the player’s name to the location on the map.

Using Slash commands: If you’re familiar with slash commands you can use these in the chat. Use the commands with ‘@’ and the players name from the player roster to interact with individual players.