Mercury was a Flash-based elearning courseware that make possible the creation of rich, bespoke elearning content from nothing more than XML templates.

It supported many different types of content including:

  • Rich HTML text
  • Image galleries
  • Animated transitions
  • Video
  • Audio
  • Drag & drop activities
  • Click & reveal activities
  • Quizzes and assessments.

Mercury constructed the resource from its XML definitions in real-time, including its modules and page structure. It allowed the creating of elearning courses without any programming.

It also featured SCORM support with a local shared object (Flash cookie) backup if SCORM was not supported on the delivery platform.