'Minecraft: Education Edition' officially arrives in November

After a summer of test runs, the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition will officially launch on November 1st. When it goes live, the service will require a 5 yearly membership per user or a district-wide license, but the Early Access edition is still free until November. According to the MinecraftEdu team, over 35,000 students and teachers around the world have been playing around in Minecraft's sandbox since the program went live at the beginning of the summer. With the official release, the team has built out a few new education-focused features like a "Classroom Mode" that offers a top-down look at the Minecraft world via a companion app. In the app, teachers can manage world settings, talk to students in-game, give out items or teleport their kids around the map from a single interface.