Choose Widgets Workspace, and it is a static widget, you should see it in the list in the Widget Panel. You can find them in the Gallery folder (which is a subfolder of the Captivate installation folder)/
For some tips about working with widgets:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/using-captivate-widgets-some-tips
As for reporting the variables to a LMS, that depends on the LMS you are using, some of them can have variables reported, some not.
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