Select your content

Prepare your content for delivery

Licensing and hardware

Collaboration and sharing student projects

Your Unity course and classroom

Unit 2: Set Up Your Course

Welcome

Get to know Unity

Get Started with Unity: In-Editor Tutorial

Build your first personal project

Instructional strategies for teaching Unity

Troubleshooting

Grading and assessment

Share your course plan

Unity fundamentals

Running your course

Unit 1: Learn Unity Foundations

Unit 3: Running Your Unity Course

New Unity educators start here! This course covers everything from essentials of the Unity Editor  to curriculum development guidance and support for technical classroom implementation.

This Instructor Professional Development course, 

, is designed to get educators ready to bring Unity into their classrooms. It is a self-paced program with components that cover everything from essentials of the Unity Editor to curriculum development guidance and support for technical classroom implementation. 

By the end of this course, educators will have a solid foundation of Unity skills on which to build, a classroom setup that is Unity-ready, clear guidance on instructional best practices, and a student-facing course that's ready to go on the learning management software (LMS) platform of their choice.

Teach Unity: Educator Professional Development

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Overview

Determine your classroom licensing strategy

Verify classroom hardware and materials

In this tutorial, you will begin planning the hardware and software needs for your course, including your Unity classroom licensing strategy. 

Now that you have done some work preparing the content for your course, you’ll begin to prepare your classroom or lab. In this tutorial, we’ll tackle some of the common questions from Unity educators, such as the following: 

What Unity licenses should I get for my classroom or lab computers? 

How do I manage Unity assets among my students?  

First, let’s discuss a licensing strategy for your classroom or lab computers, as this will impact both hardware requirements and installation of the Unity software itself.

Different Unity licenses work best in different classroom and lab environments. Your institution may already have a license strategy in place or in mind. If not, take a look at our licensing cheat sheet and complete the following steps to get started:

1.  Choose a license that works best based on your needs. 

It is recommended to consult your IT department in this decision. 

2.  When students arrive, have them each sign up for their own Unity ID.

Unity IDs are required to download assets from the Unity Asset Store.

3.  Have students sign up for an account on the Unity Learn site. 

This is required to access the Certification Preparation curriculum. 

We recommend at least one computer station for every two students, but a 1:1 ratio works optimally. Minimum hardware requirements depend on your Unity license. 

Follow the hardware guidelines in our Unity Editor system requirements. It can be helpful to take these requirements to your finance department, to justify any needed purchases. While we don’t endorse any products, our educator community has recommended the Lenovo Legion 5, ASUS TUF, and ByteSpeed products as sound hardware options. 

Note: If your course includes AR or VR development, we suggest one headset or pair of VR / AR glasses for every two students, or 1:1 for an optimal ratio. You may also want to consider a mobile cart for your headsets, as well as disinfecting wipes, face protectors, and glasses protectors.

If you don’t have the required materials or want additional guidance, now is a great time to reach out on Discord for recommendations!  

Licensing and hardware

1. Overview

2. Determine your classroom licensing strategy

3. Verify classroom hardware and materials

Complete this tutorial