Appears that Ubuntu 14.04 works well enough on that hardware, see no reason why Fedora21 should not. Pay close attention to UEFI related instructions, and you should probably be good.
I suggest you try a Live-CD first with your distribution of choice, in fact the Fedora boot media offer a Live-System where you can try out your hardware before beginning the actual installation.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543006&page=154If it is not for heavy use, but for educational (you said for class), then maybe consider running your Linux in a virtual machine for starters. If you are unsure about installation procedures, doing it in a VM might help getting used to it without any danger of messing up your system.