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title: Take an exam from Canvas
description: Start a Hawkeye exam from your Canvas assignment, use the access code, and finish the Canvas quiz.
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Some exams start from an assignment in Canvas. You do not need a Hawkeye account or a password. Canvas signs you in to Hawkeye.

An email about a Canvas exam links to the Canvas assignment. It does not have a join code. Always start a Canvas exam from the assignment.

## Start the exam

1. **Open the Hawkeye assignment in Canvas**

    Hawkeye shows "Start your proctored exam" with your name and course.

2. **Press Open Hawkeye**

    Hawkeye opens in its own window, so it can use your camera, microphone and screen. The button works one time, for two minutes.

3. **Do the pre-check**

    It is the same as for any Hawkeye exam. Read [The pre-check, step by step](/docs/test-takers/pre-check).

![The Start your proctored exam page in Canvas with the Open Hawkeye button](/docs/blume-assets/content/docs/test-takers/images/k03-hawkeye-launch-page.png)

If you see "Open Hawkeye in a New Window", press that button. Your browser blocks Hawkeye inside Canvas, so Hawkeye signs you in in its own window.

## Take the quiz

After you press **Start the Exam**, Hawkeye shows the access code for the quiz.

1. **Press Copy code**

    You can also write the code down.

2. **Press Open the Exam**

    The Canvas quiz opens in its own window, at the full size of your screen. Your time starts now.

3. **Enter the access code in Canvas**

    Canvas asks for the code. Paste it or type it.

4. **Answer the quiz and submit it in Canvas**

![Hawkeye shows the access code for the quiz with a Copy Code button above the Open the Exam button](/docs/blume-assets/content/docs/test-takers/images/k10-access-code.png)

The access code shows only in Hawkeye, during your exam. It changes after the exam closes.

Keep the Hawkeye window open while you work. It records your webcam, microphone and screen. Hawkeye does not add a flag when you move between the Hawkeye window and the quiz window.

![The Hawkeye window while the quiz is open, with the buttons I've submitted the quiz: end exam and Reopen the quiz window](/docs/blume-assets/content/docs/test-takers/images/k11-hawkeye-while-quiz-open.png)

If you close the quiz window by mistake, press **Reopen the Quiz Window**. The timer does not start again.

## The timer

The Hawkeye timer follows the time limit of the Canvas quiz. If Canvas gives you extra time, the Hawkeye timer includes it.

## Finish

After you submit the quiz in Canvas, Hawkeye ends your session by itself within about 15 seconds. The Hawkeye window then shows "Exam submitted".

When you come back to the Hawkeye window, it asks if you submitted the quiz. You can press **I've Submitted the Quiz: End Exam** to end it at once.

![The Exam submitted page after Hawkeye ended the session by itself](/docs/blume-assets/content/docs/test-takers/images/k17-hawkeye-done-auto.png)

## More than one attempt

Each Canvas quiz attempt gets its own Hawkeye session. If Canvas allows another attempt, open the assignment again. If you have no attempts left, Hawkeye says "No attempts left". Ask your instructor if you need another attempt.

## Come back later

To open Hawkeye again, open the assignment in Canvas again. Canvas exams that you started also show on **My Exams** in Hawkeye.

If something does not work, read [Fix common problems](/docs/test-takers/troubleshooting#canvas-problems).