Manage Licenses in the Microsoft Store for Education

The Microsoft Store for Education is where you manage licenses for Minecraft Education if your organization is an eligible educational institution who: 

• Have the free Office 365 A1 plan and purchased licenses through the Microsoft Store for Education. 
• Purchased an Office 365 A3 or A5 agreement and purchased Minecraft Education licenses as an add-on to your plan (non-unified SKU) or standalone licenses from a CSP partner. 

Note:  

• If you aren’t sure which licensing plan your school purchased, contact our support team to confirm your license type. 
• For more information on who qualifies as an eligible educational institution, see the Licensing Terms and Definitions page. 

An IT administrator manages licenses for your organization's users in the Store for Education. This article provides information on how to set up users at your organization to access Minecraft Education. 

View available licenses 

Follow these steps to view the Minecraft Education licenses you have available. 

1. Sign into the Microsoft Store for Education with your Office 365 account credentials. 
2. From the top menu, select Manage. 
3. From the left-hand menu, select Products & services. 
4. Locate your Minecraft Education licenses in the Products & services list. 
5. Click the Minecraft Education license you want to view. 

Note: You may see multiple lines for Minecraft Education. This indicates many different purchases of Minecraft Education have been made. Additionally, one line for Minecraft Education shows "Unlimited" licenses available. This indicates the trial version of Minecraft Education is available to an unlimited number of users in your organization. You do not need to assign trial licenses to users as this is a legacy offer. Free trials logins are automatically granted to users of a Microsoft verified academic institution. This grants 25 free logins per faculty and 10 free logins per student account. 

Assign a license 

Minecraft Education licenses purchased through the store can be automatically assigned to users in your school, assigned manually, or assigned in batches.  

Auto-assign licenses 

Auto-assigning licenses automatically assigns a license to a user in your school when they sign into Minecraft Education with their Office 365 credentials. This is especially useful when there are many users, for example a school district that has purchased licenses for all the faculty and students. 

By default, the auto-assign feature is turned off. Follow these steps to turn on the auto-assign feature, 

1. In the Microsoft Store for Education, locate your Minecraft Education licenses in the Products & services list, see the steps in View available licenses for more information on accessing your licenses. 
2. Next to Auto-claim a license, click Edit. 
3. Select On. 
   Result: The auto-assign feature is on and licenses are automatically assigned to users when they sign in. 
4. Once all your licenses have been claimed, students or teachers who haven’t been assigned licenses yet are automatically assigned to the trial version of Minecraft Education. Users of the trial version are limited to the number of times they can sign in - 25 times for teachers with an Office 365 Education account and 10 for all other users. 

Manually assign a license 

Licenses can be managed manually on an individual or group level. To be able to manually assign licenses, you must add users in the Microsoft Admin Center before they appear in the Microsoft Store for Education, see the Add users and assign licenses at the same time article in the Microsoft 365 admin center help page for information on how to add users.  

Follow these steps to manually assign licenses, 

1. In the Microsoft Store for Education, locate your Minecraft Education licenses in the Products & services list, see the steps in View available licenses for more information on accessing your licenses. 
2. Ensure that Auto-claim a license is off. 
3. Click Assign to Users. 
4. Enter the name or email address of the student or teacher or enter the name of the group to whom you are assigning the license. 
5. When you have finished entering the names, click Assign. 
   Result: The license is assigned to the user. 

Assign licenses in batches 

The Microsoft Store for Education provides a PowerShell module to allow an administrator to manage Minecraft Education license assignment in batches. 

Unassign a license 

Licenses can be reclaimed from users so that they may be reassigned to other users. 

Follow these steps to reclaim a license and remove it from a user. 

1. In the Microsoft Store for Education, locate your Minecraft Education licenses in the Products & services list, see the steps in View available licenses for more information on accessing your licenses. 
2. Next to the user, click the ellipses and click Reclaim license. 
   Result: The license is removed from the user. 
   Note: It can sometimes take up to 30 days for the license removal to reflect for the user. Once a license is reclaimed from a user, it can immediately be assigned to a different user. If you're unassuming a faculty Office 365 license and assigning a student Office 365 license (or vice-versa), the change will only take up to 7 days.  

Additional resources 

Video overview of the Minecraft Store for Education