Nurse educators juggle many responsibilities between lesson planning, grading, accreditation documentation, and guiding students through complex material. Their tools should work as hard as these educators. That’s why we’ve enhanced our assignment builder in the UWorld Nursing Learning Platform, making it easy to build targeted, standards-aligned assignments.
Why is this feature update significant? What does it mean for students and educators?
Why This Matters for Nursing Programs
The updated assignment builder allows nursing educators to filter items by professional attributes on the UWorld Nursing Learning Platform. This enables them to align assignments with course objectives and curriculum goals, and helps programs easily meet accreditation requirements.
Supports Accreditation Standards
Accredited nursing programs make students eligible for licensure, ensure that credits are transferable, increase access to financial aid, and improve job prospects after graduation. That’s why accreditation matters — and we’ve updated our assignment builder.
Our updated Learning Platform feature now supports clear alignment with:
- American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials (AACN Essentials) domains
- National League for Nursing (NLN) outcomes
- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies
- American Nurses Association (ANA) standards,
- National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX®) Client Needs categories,
- NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM)
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Integrated Processes
This enhancement enables transparent mapping of student performance to these standards, making it easier to demonstrate instructional effectiveness and meet accreditation requirements.
Bridges the Gap Between Insight and Action
Educators can now do more than build assignments—they can use tagged standards to connect assessments directly to curricular goals. This allows real-time insight into where students excel or need additional support across the NCSBN’s Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM), QSEN, and other frameworks.
For example, if students underperform on items tagged with QSEN’s "Teamwork and Collaboration," faculty can revise upcoming lessons or simulations accordingly. This agility turns assessment data into immediate, measurable action.
Streamlined Workflow for Educators
This redesign makes building, assigning, and reporting possible — all in just a few clicks. Whether educators are curriculum-mapping or assessing learning outcomes at the course level, aligning their instruction with their goals has never been easier.
Enhanced Assignment Creation and Reporting Tools
Our updated assignment builder allows for more nuanced content creation and seamless curricular integration, helping educators better prepare students for both clinical practice and licensure success.
Attribute-Based Assignment Builder
With the enhanced interface, educators can filter questions by selected standards—like AACN Essentials or QSEN competencies—and instantly populate assignments with aligned content.
This streamlines the process, reinforces curriculum alignment, and saves valuable time.
Reporting Enhancements
Advanced reporting tools allow educators to analyze student outcomes by attribute. Whether evaluating a course, cohort, or individual, educators gain clear visibility into progress, trends, and gaps.
These insights enable programs to make data-informed adjustments at both the micro and macro levels.
How UWorld’s Assignment Builder Benefits Nursing Programs
Simplifies Accreditation Alignment
Accreditation documentation is no small task. This update allows educators to create assignments that directly map to AACN Essentials domains, QSEN competencies, Bloom’s taxonomy levels, NLN outcomes, and NCLEX® Client Needs categories — making compliance easier and more transparent.
Saves Educators Time with Auto-Aligned Assignments
Rather than cross-referencing or sorting manually through question banks (QBanks), educators can build assignments that align with national standards in just minutes with tagged questions. It’s an efficient, effective, and educator-friendly solution for reinforcing critical thinking, clinical judgment, and core nursing competencies.
Enables Analysis and Curriculum Planning
Assignment data can track student performance by standard, identify learning gaps, and inform targeted remediation. Whether adjusting a single lecture or revising a curriculum, educators will have the insights they need to drive improvement.
Align Instruction. Improve Outcomes. Advance Accreditation.
The assignment builder connects curriculum design, student assessment, and accreditation reporting into a unified system. With UWorld, every assignment educators create can serve a dual purpose: supporting student success and advancing accreditation goals.
