Minecraft: Education Edition for Chromebooks
is available to install from the Android Play Store.
We're going to have a look at how you can make that available to your users
in your domain.
There's a couple of steps that we need to take to make this available.
First off, if you log into the Admin Console, come and select
"Apps", then choose "Additional Google services",
and here you have a list of different services you can make available to your
users, so if you scroll down almost to the bottom you'll see
there's a "Managed Google Play".
When we hover over that there's three
vertical dots that appear so let's just click on that
and select "Turn On for everyone".
Choose to turn on... There's a few terms
and conditions you should read and then agree to
and select "TURN ON".
So now we can come back to the main page, select "Devices".
Under Chrome you'll see there's an option here under "Apps & extensions"
called "Users & browsers" so choose that.
And here we've got an option "Allow other apps and extensions from the chrome web
store only" and next to that there's a settings cog. So if you click on that
settings cog, the very first option here "Allow an approved set of Android
applications to be installed on supported Chrome devices".
You want to change that from "Do not allow" to "Allow".
So choose that, click on "SAVE"
and now we can go back to "USERS & BROWSERS" [tab]
and we can actually install any of the apps in the Android Play Store
for our users. So this yellow plus button, when you
hover over that there's a number of different options so
first one is "Add from the chrome web store" and above that is "Add from
Google Play". So choose "Add from Google Play".
When that comes up type in "Minecraft: Education Edition"
and choose search and the very first
option that comes up is Minecraft: Education Edition.
So just click on that
and you can select that. Now when you do this you'll actually be asked to
accept some terms and conditions giving the
app access to your users' data and so what you're doing is you're actually
giving this app permission on behalf of all of your
users to access this data. So you'll need to go ahead and do that and when you've
completed that your users will be able to run Minecraft.
So Minecraft: Education Edition
is now available for users to choose to install.
And you'll see here next to the "Allow install" we've got a pull-down list that
has a couple of other options.
We can actually choose "Force install"
which will install it for all of the users
and we've also got "Force install + pin". So what "Force install + pin" does
is it installs it for all of the users but it also pins it to
the shelf so it's available there at the bottom of the screen for
them to run. Now you may not want to install it for
every user so what we're going to do is look at how
we can install it for our students.
So at the moment every user can choose to install it
but if you come over to the left here, expand the organizational units
and find your student's organizational unit and choose that.
What we're going to do is over-ride the
options here and instead of allowing the students to install it
we're going to choose "Force install + pin".
So just save that.
So now all of our students will have Minecraft
automatically installed on their Chromebooks and pinned to the shelf.
Any other users will be able to choose to install it if they want to.
So here we are, we've logged in as one of the students and you'll see here that
Minecraft is pinned to the shelf. So it's been automatically installed;
they can choose that, they can run that.
And now it's ready for them to sign in.
So let's go and see what it looks like when we log in as a staff.
So you see that Minecraft is not pinned to the shelf,
but if we go over, open the Play Store.
Here's Minecraft: Education Edition - so that's available for us to install.
So you can choose that, select "Install" now it's downloading Minecraft: Education
Edition and will install it on this Chromebook.
So now it's been installed. We can click here to open and you'll see as well if
we go across there, there's Minecraft: Education Edition.
So we can just open that up and run that.
So as you can see it's pretty simple and straightforward to make Minecraft:
Education Edition available to your users on Chromebooks.