Campus Survival Pack
Everything your first assignment assumes you already have.
Seven files and four guides for the first year of a degree: a Word assignment template that builds its own contents page, referencing done properly with real Sri Lankan examples, and the emails nobody teaches you to write. In Sinhala and English.
The guides work on a phone. The Word and Excel files need a laptop or the free Office apps.
Inside the pack
Eleven things, not a folder of PDFs
Files you download
University assignment template
Cover page, heading styles, automatic contents, figure and table captions and page numbers, already set up. Type your work into it.
Assignment planner
Put in the due date and it plans backwards: when to finish reading, drafting and proofreading, and how many words each section gets.
Excel practice workbook
A made-up district dataset to practise on: SUM, AVERAGE, IF, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, and a sheet ready for a pivot table.
Python starter notebook
Opens in Google Colab, so a phone is enough. Loads the data, cleans it, groups it and draws a chart with pandas and matplotlib.
Zotero starter library
Real Sri Lankan sources already entered. Import it into Zotero and cite them in one click.
AI-use declaration template
The form universities are starting to ask for: which tool, what you used it for, and what is your own work.
Survey design checklist
One page to check before you run a survey: sampling, question order, Likert scales, the consent line and a pilot.
Guides you read in the app
APA 7 and Harvard, quick reference
Book, journal article, website, government report, lecture slides and AI tool — in-text and reference list side by side, every example a Sri Lankan source.
First week on campus
Moodle, reading a brief, naming your files, submitting as PDF, asking for an extension, and group work.
Academic email templates
To a lecturer, an extension request, a missed class, a group-work problem, and asking for a reference. Copy and send.
Using AI honestly
Where help ends and misconduct starts, what you have to declare, and a generator that writes the declaration paragraph for you.
Who it is for
Waiting after A/Ls
You have months before your degree starts. This is the part of it you can do now, in an afternoon.
In your first year
The first assignment is due and nobody explained the format, the referencing or the file name. This is that explanation.
Any year with a research project
The referencing guide, the Zotero library and the survey checklist are the same ones you need in year three.
Try it first
Two of the email templates are free, right now
Asking a lecturer a question, and requesting an extension. Whole, no sign-in, nothing to pay. If they are useful, the other nine things are in the pack.
Read the free sampleසිංහලෙන්
Campus එකේ පළවෙනි assignment එකට ඕන කරන ඔක්කොම
Files හතක් සහ guides හතරක්. Automatic contents page එකක් හදන Word assignment template එකක්, ඇත්ත Sri Lankan sources එක්ක APA සහ Harvard referencing guide එකක්, Google Colab එකේ open වෙන Python notebook එකක්, Zotero library එකක්, සහ lecturer කෙනෙකුට email එකක් ලියන හැටි.
Guides සිංහලෙන් සහ English දෙකෙන්ම කියවන්න පුළුවන්. Phone එකෙන් guides කියවන්න පුළුවන්; Word සහ Excel files වලට laptop එකක් හරි Office mobile apps හරි ඕන.
Rs 1,990 — එක ගෙවීමක්. අවුරුදු තුනක් ඔයාගේ. කිසිම university එකකින් accredited නෑ; මේක certificate එකක් නෙවෙයි, වැඩේ ලේසි කරන files ටිකක්.
Questions
The awkward ones first
The four guides work on a phone. The Word and Excel files need a laptop, or the free Microsoft Office apps on Android. The Python notebook opens in Google Colab in a phone browser, so that one is fine either way.