Here is a suggestion for a Bachelor Thesis.

Motivation: In state of the art community products and social platforms, mood messages are a must! Examples are: Skype and ICQ as messengers. Facebook, Twitter, StudiVZ as social platforms. Mood messages are one of the most favorite functions and drivers on these platforms. Users like to share their mood messages. Hence, let’s use mood messages for learning!

So far, capturing moods in ActiveMath can be only done like this:

• get mood information from notes. But: there are no implicit instructions to write about a mood state in notes. Moreover, notes are visibly only, when you select the appropriate menu item.

• make assumptions based on performance. But: assumption may be wrong. How can you be sure that a student feels anger instead of disappointment when his performance is bad.

Solution/Task: Implement an AJAX GUI Interface that offers students to express their mood message by text and/or by a smiley. A smiley is a short-cut for “I am happy/disappointed/frustrated/angry/stumped …”. This information should be stored in the database (-> and history) and can contribute to the student model. Additionaly, implement an atom feed such that this information

• can be forwarded to other platforms the students use or
• can be processed in some other way.

Additional benefit: this feature can be re-used for e-portfolio platforms as well.