Minecraft: Education Edition Upcoming November 1

Since being announced in early 2016, Minecraft: Education Edition from Majong has attracted lots of attention from all over the world. The most exciting news for Majong and Minecraft fans as well as the educators and students of the whole world is that Education Edition will come in the first day of this November.

Majong has tested Minecraft: Education Edition for an extended period as free trial which was began this summer. And It is still open for early access on its official site, which gives educators a chance to install and try the early version for FREE, and will last until the release of the full version on November 1, 2016. And then, the early accessed users can still use by purchasing with $5 per user, per year, or through a district-wide licensing model.

Being aimed at educators and schools, and by collecting feedback from the educator community, Majong rolled out the key capabilities in the full version (coming soon in November). And TopWinData will just quote the features from its official site:

Classroom Mode: A companion app for Minecraft: Education Edition that enables educators to manage world settings, communicate with students, give items and teleport students in the Minecraft world. It displays a map view of the Minecraft world, a list of all the students in the world, a set of world management settings and a chat window. There is even a Minecraft clock to show time of day in the world. Classroom Mode offers educators the ability to interact with students and manage settings from a central user interface.

New Minecraft game features: We will continue to update Minecraft: Education Edition to include new game features from other editions of Minecraft. All the latest updates to Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition beta will be included, such as leads and horses, additional player skins, pistons and the remainder of Redstone functionality and an updated user interface.

If you do not know how popular this edition will be, you can check video released by Minecraft to see what the students and teachers reviewed about it. Or you can also watch this video on TopWinData Video Collection named Turner USD Embraces Minecraft: Education Edition.

For early access and stay tuned with the updates, you can visit the Minecraft: Education Edition website.