Cyber in Minecraft

Cyber in Minecraft is a cybersecurity credential program with supporting curriculum, delivered through Minecraft Education and hosted on Azure.

The pathway comprises three courses that immerse students in a Minecraft world to develop and prove their cybersecurity skills including Digital Citizenship, Networking & Security.

Coding in Minecraft

Cyber in Minecraft is a cybersecurity credential program with supporting curriculum, delivered through Minecraft Education and hosted on Azure.

The pathway comprises three courses that immerse students in a Minecraft world to develop and prove their cybersecurity skills including Digital Citizenship, Networking & Security.

Getting Started Guide

Thank you for your purchase of the Cyber in Minecraft credentials & curriculum.

To get started using the credentials & curriculum in your classroom please follow the steps below:

1 - Install & license Minecraft Education

Cyber in Minecraft requires Minecraft Education. It is not compatible with any other version of Minecraft including Bedrock, Java, MinecraftEdu etc.

Minecraft Education can be installed for free from https://aka.ms/download. To use Minecraft Education each user needs a license. Licensing is applied to an Office 365 Education user account.

If you do not have Minecraft Education licensing or Office 365 education please see here https://education.minecraft.net/content/minecraft-edu/language-masters/en-us/licensing.html or https://edusupport.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360047557271-Getting-started-with-Minecraft-Educationhttps://educommunity.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/categories/360003796971-Get-Set-Up

For support in deploying Minecraft Education to your classroom please see https://educommunity.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/categories/360003796971-Get-Set-Up

2 - Log onto the Cyber in Minecraft Portal
The Cyber 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:

3 - (Optional) Add additional Teachers/Instructors

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

Note: You can only create additional users using the Organisation Administrator account (the account supplied in your fulfilment email).
4 - Create a Class

Any Instructor/Teacher user can create a class to organise students and assign them the Cyber in Minecraft courses and capstone exam.

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

5 - Download & review the Instructor Resources

Comprehensive Instructor Resources including Course Outlines, Lesson Plan and Sample Answers are provided for each Cyber in Minecraft course.

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.

6 - (Optional) Create students on the Portal

For students to access the courses and credentials they will need to log into the Cyber in Minecraft portal and redeem an access code to join a class.

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

7 - Have your students redeem the access code

For students to access the courses and credentials they will need to log into the Cyber in Minecraft portal and redeem an access code to join a class.

Students can log in using their Microsoft or Google account (see Step 2 – Log onto the Cyber 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.

 
8 - Students start the course and follow the learning path

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

9 - Students complete the assessments & upload to the Portal

At specific times in the course students will have to upload an assessment.

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-

 
10 - Grade your students' assessments

Once your students submit assessments on the Portal you can grade their work.

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:

11 - Using the Gradebook Feature

12 - Students download your micro-credential

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

13 - Provide the Capstone Credential Exam to your students

When your students are ready you can add the Capstone Exam to the class using the Portal – this will provide students enrolled in the class with access to the exam.

The above information is also available to download in the below Teacher and Student Portal guides: