When an instructor enables an exam to use Honorlock in Canvas, Honorlock automatically creates a Bypass PIN, also referred to as an Accessibility Code. Any student who uses this PIN will be able to bypass all proctoring settings for the exam. Do not give the Bypass PIN to a student. Instead, an instructor, TA, or in-person exam proctor should enter the PIN for the student upon the student opening the exam.
Getting a Bypass PIN from Honorlock
- Go to the Canvas course site that has the exam you need the Bypass PIN for.
- Go to Honorlock 1.3 in the course navigation.
- Click on the Honorlock Chat Support button on the bottom, right-hand corner of the page.
- Once an Honorlock support agent has begun the chat, request a Bypass PIN for the exam.
- The Honorlock support agent will confirm your identity as one of the instructors for the course site by your internet ID that will automatically be communicated to the agent through the chat that you started within the course site.
- You will need to provide the exact name of the exam that you need the Bypass PIN as it appears in the Honorlock 1.3 course navigation area.
- Once the student is ready to take the exam, have them begin the assessment in Canvas.
- When the Honorlock authorization window appears, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Enter Accessibility Code.
- A window will appear below the page with a box labeled Accessibility Code. Type the PIN in that box and press Enter.
- The assessment will resume without any Honorlock authentication steps or proctoring.
- See Bypass PIN Best Practices for more information.
Confirming who used the Bypass PIN
After an exam that you received a Bypass PIN has been completed, check that no one else was able to access the exam using that Bypass PIN.
- Go to the Canvas course site that has the exam you used with the Bypass PIN for.
- Go to Honorlock 1.3 in the course navigation.
- Select the Results button next to the exam that has a Bypass PIN.
- Select Show Filters. A filter menu will appear on the left side of the page.
- Scroll to the bottom of the filters menu and select the Proctoring Bypassed check box.
- Review that only authorized students are listed in the results. The student's attempt will have no results to view, and display a gray flag that says Proctoring Bypassed.
