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M Beaird

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Sep 30, 2016, 10:38:32 AM9/30/16
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Hello Everyone,

I am new to Minecraft EDU.   I am a junior high teacher.   Is it true that the computers in my lab MUST be a minimum of Windows 10 or I cannot use Minecraft EDU?   My lab is Windows 7.   Am I out of luck?

PLEASE HELP!

Matt Coia

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Sep 30, 2016, 10:49:31 AM9/30/16
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If you are looking to get into Minecraft for the first time right now, you have two choices.  

You can purchase Minecraft:Education Edition starting on Nov 1, which will require your computers to be Win10 and your students to have Office365 accounts and it will cost approx $5 per student per year.  You'll want to visit education.minecraft.net for more info.

The second option is to run regular vanilla Minecraft by creating your own server etc.  It's not too difficult, runs on nearly any OS, and you could, in theory, share Minecraft accounts between students for only the $27 game license each.  This would entail working with your IT dept to open up the proper ports to the internet though, which sometimes is the greatest challenge.  You can search for other posts in this group for help as it has been covered a few times I believe.

Good Luck!



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M Beaird

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Sep 30, 2016, 10:56:11 AM9/30/16
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Thank you Matt.   Where can I find instructions on Option #2?   I have been told that my computers are not upgradeable to Windows 10 so it sounds like I cannot use Minecraft EDU.  :( 



On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Matt Coia wrote:
If you are looking to get into Minecraft for the first time right now, you have two choices.  

You can purchase Minecraft:Education Edition starting on Nov 1, which will require your computers to be Win10 and your students to have Office365 accounts and it will cost approx $5 per student per year.  You'll want to visit education.minecraft.net for more info.

The second option is to run regular vanilla Minecraft by creating your own server etc.  It's not too difficult, runs on nearly any OS, and you could, in theory, share Minecraft accounts between students for only the $27 game license each.  This would entail working with your IT dept to open up the proper ports to the internet though, which sometimes is the greatest challenge.  You can search for other posts in this group for help as it has been covered a few times I believe.

Good Luck!


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:38 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am new to Minecraft EDU.   I am a junior high teacher.   Is it true that the computers in my lab MUST be a minimum of Windows 10 or I cannot use Minecraft EDU?   My lab is Windows 7.   Am I out of luck?

PLEASE HELP!

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Matt Coia

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Sep 30, 2016, 11:25:59 AM9/30/16
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:56 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Matt.   Where can I find instructions on Option #2?   I have been told that my computers are not upgradeable to Windows 10 so it sounds like I cannot use Minecraft EDU.  :( 



On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Matt Coia wrote:
If you are looking to get into Minecraft for the first time right now, you have two choices.  

You can purchase Minecraft:Education Edition starting on Nov 1, which will require your computers to be Win10 and your students to have Office365 accounts and it will cost approx $5 per student per year.  You'll want to visit education.minecraft.net for more info.

The second option is to run regular vanilla Minecraft by creating your own server etc.  It's not too difficult, runs on nearly any OS, and you could, in theory, share Minecraft accounts between students for only the $27 game license each.  This would entail working with your IT dept to open up the proper ports to the internet though, which sometimes is the greatest challenge.  You can search for other posts in this group for help as it has been covered a few times I believe.

Good Luck!


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:38 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am new to Minecraft EDU.   I am a junior high teacher.   Is it true that the computers in my lab MUST be a minimum of Windows 10 or I cannot use Minecraft EDU?   My lab is Windows 7.   Am I out of luck?

PLEASE HELP!

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M Beaird

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Sep 30, 2016, 12:24:05 PM9/30/16
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If I go with Option #2, could I still do the lessons that are in Minecraft EDU?  Do I have to have it setup on a server?

Thanks Everyone!


On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 10:25:59 AM UTC-5, Matt Coia wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:56 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Matt.   Where can I find instructions on Option #2?   I have been told that my computers are not upgradeable to Windows 10 so it sounds like I cannot use Minecraft EDU.  :( 



On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 9:49:31 AM UTC-5, Matt Coia wrote:
If you are looking to get into Minecraft for the first time right now, you have two choices.  

You can purchase Minecraft:Education Edition starting on Nov 1, which will require your computers to be Win10 and your students to have Office365 accounts and it will cost approx $5 per student per year.  You'll want to visit education.minecraft.net for more info.

The second option is to run regular vanilla Minecraft by creating your own server etc.  It's not too difficult, runs on nearly any OS, and you could, in theory, share Minecraft accounts between students for only the $27 game license each.  This would entail working with your IT dept to open up the proper ports to the internet though, which sometimes is the greatest challenge.  You can search for other posts in this group for help as it has been covered a few times I believe.

Good Luck!


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:38 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am new to Minecraft EDU.   I am a junior high teacher.   Is it true that the computers in my lab MUST be a minimum of Windows 10 or I cannot use Minecraft EDU?   My lab is Windows 7.   Am I out of luck?

PLEASE HELP!

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Pat James

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Sep 30, 2016, 2:07:17 PM9/30/16
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I'm curious about the sharing of retail vanilla Minecraft licenses -- are you sure this is OK?  The EULA seems clear on the license being granted to an individual person.  It was always one of the major benefits of MCEdu, along with the passwordless setup.

Password management of the Mojang accounts can become a challenge, particularly if you have any budding hackers who want to be clever and change the password on you.  But I guess that's all part of the digital citizenship learning opportunity around "just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it".  If you control the email account associated with the Mojang account you can fix these issues.

And there are more challenges with Mojang account passwords, such as having your network temporarily blacklisted if your students fat-finger a password occasionally.  This issue is more likely to catch you up in a school environment where all account auth calls are going out over a shared internet connection -- one bad apple can get the whole school banned.

-Pat

On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 7:49:31 AM UTC-7, Matt Coia wrote:
If you are looking to get into Minecraft for the first time right now, you have two choices.  

You can purchase Minecraft:Education Edition starting on Nov 1, which will require your computers to be Win10 and your students to have Office365 accounts and it will cost approx $5 per student per year.  You'll want to visit education.minecraft.net for more info.

The second option is to run regular vanilla Minecraft by creating your own server etc.  It's not too difficult, runs on nearly any OS, and you could, in theory, share Minecraft accounts between students for only the $27 game license each.  This would entail working with your IT dept to open up the proper ports to the internet though, which sometimes is the greatest challenge.  You can search for other posts in this group for help as it has been covered a few times I believe.

Good Luck!


On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:38 AM, M Beaird <bea...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,

I am new to Minecraft EDU.   I am a junior high teacher.   Is it true that the computers in my lab MUST be a minimum of Windows 10 or I cannot use Minecraft EDU?   My lab is Windows 7.   Am I out of luck?

PLEASE HELP!

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Pat James

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Sep 30, 2016, 2:17:50 PM9/30/16
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With respect to using the existing MCEdu-based lessons, I think that would be a tough row to hoe.  You would need to look really critically at the lessons to evaluate how much is wrapped up in the MCEdu features, and of course you would have none of the classroom/student management features and special blocks.  I'll bet there are some lessons that would work without too much work, but probably 90% of them would take way more time to adapt to your environment than it would take to start a new lesson and world from scratch.

-Pat
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