Getting Started Guide

The Coding in Minecraft Portal is your one stop shop for providing access to the credentials & curriculum to your students and to grade their submitted assessments.

To access the portal follow the steps in this guide:

To add additional teacher/instructors to you Coding in Minecraft organisation you can use the Manage Users page.

It is strongly advised to organise your students into classes on the portal as this can assist you in the grading process.

An Instructor can download these by accessing the course in Instructor view which is detailed below:

Solutions to the Assessments can be found in the Lesson Plans. If you want to run the code for the solutions you can download and import the Assesment Solution MakeCode files from the Instructor Resources and open in Code Builder by following the steps in the below video

Students can log in using their Microsoft or Google account (see Step 2 – Log onto the Coding in Minecraft Portal) or an instructor can create student accounts on the portal using the steps below.

Students can log in using their Microsoft or Google account (see Step 2 – Log onto the Coding in Minecraft Portal) or an instructor can create student accounts on the portal (see Step 6 – (Optional) Creating student accounts)

Once they have entered the code and clicked redeem the courses allocated to the class will be shown in the Courses section.

Students only need to redeem this code once.

Once students have redeemed the access code to gain access to the curriculum on the Portal they can access the associated course and download and import the Minecraft world for the credential.

When you enter the Coding in Minecraft world follow the instructions to get started.

Interact with all the Non Player Characters on your journey and make your way around the learning activities of each lesson following the directions.

Once you have completed all the learning activities you are ready to take on the assessment challenge at the end of the lesson.

Read the assessment challenge carefully and complete the required tasks. Once you have completed the tasks gather the evidence required – typically by saving your MakeCode/JavaScript/Python to a file – for guidance on how to do this please see the video at the end of this step. Some assessments will require you to complete a worksheet or take a screen grab of the Code Builder window showing the code and a screen grab of the result of the code running in the Minecraft game. You can use the camera tool to capture images in the game or you can use the screen grab features of your computer:

• How to take a screen capture on Windows
• How to take a screen capture on iPad
• How to take a screen capture on MacOS
• How to take a screen capture on Chromebook

Once you have captured your evidence upload it to the Portal by following the below instructions:

We strongly recommend backing up your world after every class as the world is saved locally on that computer and it can be easily lost.

For further information on how to do this by exporting your world please see https://minecrafteducation.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001427948-Importing-and-Exporting-Your-Worlds-

You can choose when you do this – whether when students submit or at the end of the class or once every week or so.

It is critical however that you grade their work for the teacher graded micro-credential to be awarded on successful completion of each course.

To grade students work follow the below instructions:

Once all assessment sumissions have been graded as Completed and Passed by the teacher the student can download their credential.