Minecraft is a digital game, with no given set of rules or endgame, that promotes creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving in an immersive environment where the only limit is your imagination.
Minecraft puts players in a world modelled on our own. A 360-degree, experiential environment with forests, rivers, mountains, and deep oceans, biomes, weather conditions and animals.
Minecraft Education is a game-based learning platform, derived from Minecraft and designed to facilitate the environmental, mechanical and narrative elements of the game in a learning capacity. It assists educators in building STEM skills, unleashing creativity and engaging students in collaboration and problem-solving. Minecraft helps educators meet students where they are and inspires deep, meaningful learning across subjects. Educators around the world use Minecraft Education to teach lessons, build STEM and social-emotional skills and inspire project-based learning.
Minecraft Education offers special features designed for educational use, including assessment tools and classroom multiplayer to allow learners to work together in the immersive game environment.
Features like classroom multiplayer allow students to collaborate on projects in their Minecraft worlds, building, planning, learning and even chatting as they work together. When they are ready to document their work and submit their projects, students can use tools like the Camera and Book & Quill to take screenshots, write about their work and export their in-game portfolios as PDFs.
When students collaborate remotely in Minecraft Education, it presents new opportunities for them to build communication and problem-solving skills together.
Minecraft Education includes several features that support collaboration and help educators create more inclusive classrooms, whether students are learning in person or remotely. These include multiplayer mode, formative assessment tools like the Camera and Book & Quill, export options to help students share their work outside the game, and Immersive Reader to support reading and translating.
Students can learn and play in a collaborative environment simultaneously by using multiplayer mode. To play together in multiplayer, each individual’s home network must satisfy the requirements outlined in our article on how to set up a multiplayer game. This resource also includes a helpful video and instructions for educators to get started with setting up a multiplayer experience.
Windows 10 or 11 – 64 bit
Ram // 8 GB
CPU Processor – Intel Core i3-3210 3.2 GHz / AMD A8-7600 APU 3.1 GHz or equivalent
GPU Graphics – Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Ivy Bridge) or AMD Radeon R5 series
Storage – At least 1GB for game core, maps and other files