• Using a Book & Quill, students can type text inside Minecraft and export that text to a PDF which can then be submitted to Google Classroom, Teams or emailed to their teacher

• Using a Camera and Portfolio students can take screenshots of their designs in Minecraft, annotate them and then export the results to a PDF

When designing a task for students in Minecraft, it is important to consider what you want the students to be able to do. Is it a task you want them to complete alone or in a group? If they are in a group, do you want them to be able to change or modify each others’ designs? One of the biggest challenges in using Minecraft in groups is preventing students from modifying or destroying other students’ designs. With a bit of forethought and planning, you can effectively eliminate this problem from your classroom.

Of course this is an issue of Digital Citizenship and it is a great time to have a whole class discussion about what it means to be a good Digital Citizen. Would it be appropriate to walk over to another students’ desk and tear a page out of their book? Of course not. Digitally, how is that different from joining their group and destroying their designs? This could also be a great opportunity for the class to be involved in setting some rules around working in digital worlds and what is expected of them in these spaces.

A book & quill is a great way to have students write notes or answer questions inside of a Minecraft activity, as the text can be exported as a PDF and then submitted to the teacher.

Once a student has a Book & Quill, they can open it from their inventory and write in it. They can go back to it at any time and add to it as long as it has not been signed. Once a book is signed, it can no longer be edited and becomes "read only". To sign a book, click the Sign button and give the book a title. This might be the name of the activity or something else that makes sense to the student.

Once the book has been signed, it will begin to sparkle and glow and opening it will now show a button that says Export. Clicking the Export button will allow you to create a PDF of the contents of the book with the title and student name as the name of the PDF file.