Adding a timer widget to a captivate quiz slide

I am trying to let the users know how much time they have per slide.
I found this blog, http://lilybiri.posterous.com/timer-widget-to-stress-your-learners and it is exactly what I need, the time left display, but I am very new to captivate.. only on my 3rd on my trial and do not know how to actually go about creating variables and the widget. Is there a training video anywhere or can someone take me through step by step to create a time left display please?

Did you hear me sighing? I'm always astonished why newbies want to plunge immediately into complicated use cases?
OK, here are a couple of blog posts with links to basic articles about variables, no video tutorial there:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/curious-about-variables-in-captivate-4-5
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/curious-about-variables-in-captivate-4-5
You do not have to create the Timer widget, it is available with Captivate.
Some other blog posts about Time display:
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/quiz-showing-elapsed-time
http://lilybiri.posterous.com/display-time-information
Lilybiri

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