Once you have added your domain, as long as it is verified as an educational institution, you will be able to access the free Office 365 Education licenses. All other other steps are for verifying additional Microsoft Services that are unneeded to manage accounts eligible for Minecraft:EE. Note – you will only need to complete Step 1 (add a TXT record to verify your domain). You will need to work with your IT admin during this process, as they will need specific information from your account you created to input on their end and vice versa. Instructions for this process can be found at the following link: Add DNS records to connect your domain. Once your Office 365 education trial has begun, you will need to attach your institution’s domain to your account to continue to have access to assign/manage student’s and other user’s accounts. This step gets a little technical, and you will most likely have to involve your IT department to assist. You may check your eligibility at the following link: Office 365 Educational Eligibility. It is important to note for our members that are not a K-12 institution, you may still qualify for a free educational license. You may visit the following link to get started: Office 365 Trial. This lasts 30 days, and during that time period, you would have to attach a domain that you own/manage to continue to have access to your educational licenses once your 30 day trial is up (See following step: Verifying your Domain ). If your educational institution does not have an Office 365 education environment already setup, you can start an Office 365 Education trial. If your institution is not utilizing Office 365, maybe using a different solution such as Google for Education (or for smaller institutions, maybe nothing at all), we will have some configuring and account creation to do. If your institution is already utilizing an Office 365 environment and is verified as an educational institution, great! That means all users should already have an assigned email address and may use those credentials to login upon starting Minecraft: EE. Office 365 Integrationįirst things first, in order to have full access to Minecraft: EE, users will have to login with an Office 365 Education account. This may be a guide you share with your IT staff to unlock Minecraft for the Chromebook and then you use yourself to get students up and running in your class. To help get you started Chris Boehmer, GSE’s IT specialist, and I decided to write a guide detailing the process of getting Minecraft: Education Edition on to your students’ Chromebooks.
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