Minecraft Education
Advisors & students have access to Minecraft Education through our Office 365 licensing.
Note: you need to download Minecraft Education app first, it is not available to login online.
HOW WE CAN SUPPORT MINECRAFT EDUCATION
We can help with download/login issues and ensuring everyone is licensed. We can also help with wi-fi issues if they crop up when using Minecraft.
We are not trained in classroom use of Minecraft Education, for the actual how-to use Minecraft in the classroom please refer to the below section for Advisors.
ADVISORS
Please see this article: Get Started for Educators
This article covers the following topics:
- how to download
- educator training
- educator guide
- lesson plans
- sample projects
- short video tutorials
- meet educators
- events
- get support
Helpful resources:
STUDENTS
Year 4 - 12 (BYOD)
Students need to visit https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/get-started/download to download Minecraft Education.
Once installed, they sign in with their school Microsoft email account (username@365.silkwood.qld.edu.au) and school password.
Please note you cannot access Minecraft Education through any existing Minecraft app/launcher the student may have already downloaded to their device.
Hardware Requirements
As a BYOD school, students bring in many different makes, models and operating systems.
These are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements needed to run Minecraft Education.
Minimum specifications: Should allow you to participate in all common scenarios in Minecraft Education - such as library content, coding, and multiplayer - with some limitations such as low frame rates, shorter rendering distances, occasional lag, and performance issues. When hosting multiplayer session of 5 or more people you may experience significant performance issues such as lag, rubberbanding, players disconnecting, inventory not opening, etc.
Recommended specifications: Should allow you to see consistent performance for all common scenarios with minimal limitations and should allow you to successfully host larger multiplayer sessions with 10 or more participants.
Chromebook, Mac, and Windows PC hardware requirements
Hardware
Required specification
Recommended specification
CPU
Intel Core i3-4150 or Intel Celeron N4100
AMD A8-6600K
Intel Core i7-6500U
AMD FX-4100
RAM
2 GB
8 GB
GPU
Integrated: Intel HD Graphics 4400 or AMD Radeon R5 series with OpenGL 4.4
Discrete: Nvidia GeForce 400 Series or AMD Radeon HD 8000 series with OpenGL 4.4
Discrete: Nvidia GeForce 940M or Radeon HD 7750
HDD
Minimum of 2 GB for game core, maps, and other files
4 GB