Quote

Highlights a textual quote by some author or work external to our content.

It displays as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut porta, neque id feugiat consectetur, enim ipsum tincidunt nunc, id suscipit mauris urna sit amet lectus.

AUTHOR NAME, Work Title

To use it in Moodle, click on the Components for Learning button In the Atto editor and select the item Quote:

Use Cases

To emphasise a particular concept or idea.
To stress the importance of that concept or idea.
To help the learner understand the significance and ramifications of that concept or idea.
To show an experienced point of view of a particular matter.
To bring context to a particular subject, regarding the precedents of its study or line of knowledge.
To display informed judgements from prominent authors or historical characters regarding a certain issue.

Is discouraged…

To use it for long fragments of quoted text; for this use, the Reading Context component is recommended instead.

Examples

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin – licensed under Public Domain in The Project Gutenberg