UWorld said Oct. 15 that its nursing platform supports Respondus Monitor, giving faculty recordings and AI-flagged sessions to review as schools administer remote assessments amid faculty vacancies.
Students use Respondus LockDown Browser for an online test; it restricts access to unapproved websites and applications. Respondus Monitor captures video and audio, and UWorld says an AI-based review process can flag sessions for faculty attention. Identity verification and testing-room checks are optional settings, the company’s product blog says.
Programs with an eligible Respondus Monitor license can connect it to UWorld’s platform. A UWorld Nursing product blog also lists a student-paid option at $10, covering unlimited monitoring across one UWorld course without a separate charge for each exam.
UWorld presents the feature as a way to reduce scheduling and live-supervision demands. Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey A. Elliott said, “Technology will help educators focus less on administrative responsibilities ...” The company did not quantify hours saved or say how many programs use the integration. It also gave no count of flagged sessions later confirmed as irregularities.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) reported a 7.2% full-time faculty vacancy rate for academic year 2025-26, down from 7.9% in 2024. Its survey received responses from 863 of 1,075 schools with bachelor’s-level or graduate nursing programs. Of those respondents, 478 reported 1,588 open positions.
Among recruitment challenges, 33.7% cited uncompetitive salaries, 12.4% said finding instructors with the right teaching experience was difficult, and 8.5% pointed to difficulty finding candidates with the needed mix of specialties. AACN also found that 150 schools reporting no current vacancies said they still needed more faculty. The survey measured staffing openings and recruitment concerns, not time spent supervising exams.
