Dell announced a series of education-oriented products this week, including the Venue 10 and the Venue 10 Pro tablets, that offer several cool new features geared towards students. The Venue 10 series by all estimations falls just short of the high-end tablet category, and is not likely to be made widely available, but there are several new and notable features. In addition to added durability, the tablets will offer users their choice of operating system as well as a very competitive price for the market.

While the Venue 11 Pro found success amongst the business community, Dell’s new series of 10-inch tablets are geared towards classrooms. Both the Venue 10, which runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, and the Venue 10 Pro, which uses Windows 8.1, will be Google Apps for Education certified. Both models will feature a 10.1-inch HD or Full HD display that comes standard with a pressure-sensitive Wacom pen digitizer and are wrapped in a durable plastic shell (available in either blue or black). They also both come stock with a microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 connectivity, micro HDMI, 2GB of RAM and a range of storage choices from 64GB to 256GB. Dell has outfitted the tablets with a SIM tray for optional LTE, a lock slot, full-sized and micro-USB ports and a network activity light to show teachers when kids are doing something online. Inside both house a quad-core Intel Atom processor and support NFC Wireless communication so that teachers and students can simply bump their devices together to transfer files. The tablets have a reported battery life of around 10 hours and offer five different working positions once combined with the optional keyboard. According to Dell:

“The five positions make the most of different learning environments and include: clamshell for test scenarios and to use as a laptop, tent and stand position to promote collaboration and sharing, and slate configuration for keyboard storage while in tablet mode. An optional active stylus also provides the pen and paper ‘inking’ experience on a tablet”

The bevy of options makes the Venue 10 tablets ideal for nearly any classroom situation, but in case you hadn’t figured it out yet, the actual stylus will cost extra.

Aside from the difference in cost and operating systems, the Venue 10 and Venue 10 Pro appear to be nearly identical. Dell has announced the cost of the Venue 10 Pro, which runs Windows, to be $329 alone or $379 with the keyboard. Pricing has not yet been finalized for the Venue 10 tablet, but it is very possible that it could be slightly lower than its Windows-equipped sibling, as there are no fees to run Android on it. Both tablets will hit the market relatively soon; the Venue 10 Pro will be available as early as March 3^rd, 2015 and the Venue 10 could be available as early as the end of March.