A page you can forward to your IT department
What it is. A static web page that reads files the user selects, in the browser, using standard web APIs.
What it installs. Nothing.
Accounts. There is no account system and no sign-up, so no student identities are created or managed.
Data handling. Set out in the privacy policy, which is written for exactly this question and is the page to base an assessment on.
What it needs from the network. Only that the page loads. No inbound ports, no special protocols, no persistent connection.
What it needs from the device. A current desktop browser. Chrome and Edge support every feature; Firefox and Safari support everything except writing files back into a folder. The 3D view needs WebGL 2, which is on by default everywhere.
Data protection. Base an assessment on the privacy policy rather than on this page. If your institution needs specific written assurances for a deployment, ask for them directly — that is a firmer basis for a decision than a general description, and we would rather answer the question than have you guess.
Fifteen minute setup
- Open Craftplicator on one machine and confirm it loads.
- Put a small world on a shared drive or a USB stick — the gallery has starters if nobody has one.
- Have students open the page and load the world folder or the ZIP.
- Confirm one export works end to end.
That is the whole preparation. If step four works, the lesson works.
If your students are on Bedrock
Consoles, tablets and the Microsoft Store version all use Bedrock, and Minecraft Education is Bedrock-based. Those worlds convert to Java with a free tool that is funded by Mojang and documented by Microsoft, which is usually enough for an installation request to be approved.
Better still, the conversion is a one-off preparation step: convert one world on one machine, hand out the result as a zip, and no student device needs anything installed. Full route.
Known friction
- Folder selection dialogs show a message asking whether to “upload” the files. That is the browser’s standard wording for granting a page access to a folder, and it appears on every site that reads one. Tell students in advance or they will all ask at once.
- Managed Chromebooks sometimes restrict file system access by policy. The ZIP route works regardless and is the safer default for a managed fleet.
- Very large worlds on slow storage take a moment to enumerate. A trimmed world of a few region files is a better classroom starting point than someone’s four-year survival save.