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Basic Teacher & Student Preparation

Before you begin the program and have your virtual visit,

test to make sure you can launch Minecraft from a student device. If your board has Minecraft licenses, students should be able to Iogin with school e-mail credentials. If this doesn't work, you may need to contact your school or board IT department for assistance.

Also be sure that you can access the student site from a student device, and ask your IT department to whitelist it if you can't.

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It is strongly encouraged that your students are at the very least familiar with how to move around and place and break blocks in both survival and creative modes before starting the program. If you wish to give your students (and yourself) additional coding support, complete the following tutorials, located within the lesson library inside Minecraft under "How to Play > Start Here " and "Lessons > Computer Science > Block Coding > Upper Primary > Coding FUNdamentals."

Learn to Play Tutorials (Keyboard)

Learn to Play Tutorials (Touch)

Coding Tutorials (Keyboard)

Coding Tutorials (Touch)

Additional Teacher Preparation

We highly recommend the Minecraft Teacher Academy for robust professional development regarding the use of Minecraft in the classroom. You can also see if there are teacher academy sessions upcoming with our training partner, LOGICS Academy.

Minecraft 101: Crafting a Game-based Learing Classroom (also available on Microsoft Learn)
Minecraft 201: Making Assessment and Learning Mine
Minecraft 301: Programming Future-Ready Skills
Minecraft 401: Building Towards Project-Based Learning

You may also wish to take Begin Block Coding in Minecraft: Education Edition as a supplement to the ROM Teacher Coding Camp.

Other Minecraft Skill Builders:

Minecraft 401: Learn more about how redstone works and other Minecraft world creator skills
Minecraft Student Ambassadors: Learn how to empower your students to be class Minecraft experts.