Problem: Settings appear in tool creation and other areas (such as when creating a Discussion Board forum) that pertain to an “Alignments” function. However, these alignments settings don’t do anything.
Solution: Fields referencing “Alignments” can be ignored – they are remnants of a Blackboard feature that is not currently being deployed (but which is being evaluated). Their presence has been identified as a bug, which is fixed in the next release of Blackboard.