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Turn Minecraft into measurable learning.

Find, track and assess standards-aligned activities in the game your students already love. No gaming experience needed.

Students gathered around a table sketching a plan together before building it in Minecraft A class building a city in Minecraft on laptops, with their world projected on the big screen

Kids love the game. Teaching with it is the hard part.

Whether you’ve never opened Minecraft or you’ve wrestled with it for years, turning play into real, gradable learning is where most teachers get stuck.

“I’m not a gamer”

Most teachers never start: the game feels like it needs expertise they don’t have.

No lessons to start from

Where does the content even come from? Building a curriculum-aligned lesson inside a game takes hours no teacher has.

No proof of learning

A game world is a black box. Engagement you can’t see or grade doesn’t count. Not for standards, not for your principal.

No other lesson starts with this much buy-in.

Here’s why it’s worth the effort: the motivation is already there, at a scale nothing else in the classroom comes close to.

400M+

copies sold. The best-selling video game of all time, and where your students already spend their hours.

1trillion

YouTube views. The most-watched game on the platform. Kids fall in love with Minecraft before they’ve ever placed a block.

The game is the lesson.

Arcademy channels that motivation into real curriculum you control, measured automatically, proven with evidence.

From play to purpose

How Arcademy works, in three steps.

From picking a lesson to celebrating what students made, the whole flow lives in one place.

Step one

Ready to teach. No game skills needed.

A full library across subjects and grades, aligned to Common Core, NGSS, and ISTE standards. Customize any activity, or generate a new one with AI, learning goals and evidence requirements included.

29 studies

peer-reviewed evidence of Minecraft improving math, science, language and thinking skills

2025 SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

A teacher and student picking a Minecraft lesson together, with ready-to-assign lesson cards from the Arcademy library
The live class dashboard over a Minecraft world: each student's progress and status, plus overall class progress
Step two

Students play. You see everything.

They do the activity in Minecraft. Work and progress sync into your class dashboard on their own: who's on track, who's stuck, what each student made.

98%

of teachers agree Arcademy helps them deliver engaging instructional experiences

Step three

See what they learned, proof included.

Some activities check themselves. The rest is ready for you to score, and easy to send back for another try. Certificates go out the moment they're done.

97.7%

of teachers cite problem-solving as the top skill students build in classroom Minecraft

GETTING SMART RESEARCH REPORT

A cheering class celebrating together, with an Arcademy certificate of completion showing 100% completed by all 23 students

Real learning you can see and measure, in a game they already love.

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Built for your classroom. Ready for your school.

  • Assignments auto-post to your LMS
  • Rosters and sign-ins stay current on their own
  • Admins see adoption and outcomes across every classroom
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Integrates with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, and more

Questions teachers and schools ask.

Do I need to know how to play Minecraft?

No. Arcademy was built so every teacher can run game-based activities confidently. Activities come with instructions, and students’ work syncs to you automatically.

Our school has never used Minecraft. Can we start?

Yes. Most schools start exactly there. Ready-to-teach activities, step-by-step guides, and onboarding get your first class running fast. Many schools already have game-based learning licenses through Microsoft 365 Education without realizing it. We’ll check together on the demo.

Does it work with our LMS?

Yes. Rosters, SSO, and assignment posting sync through EdLink: Google Classroom, Canvas, Teams, Clever and more. No LMS? Just share a class link and students join on their own.

How is grading handled?

Your rubric, your call. Student work arrives organized and ready to score. Grading takes minutes, not evenings.

How do you handle privacy and security?

We’re FERPA compliant, COPPA safe, GDPR compliant, and ISO 27001 certified. Arcademy collects learning evidence and progress data only.

FERPA compliant COPPA Safe Harbor Certification GDPR compliant ISO 27001 certified

See your classroom in Arcademy.

Get in touch for a 20-minute demo. Bring your curriculum, we’ll bring the blocks.

We’ll get back to you within one business day.