While the pull-down menu to get to new gradebook forms in 1.9 show that flexible, the tabs of earlier version were intuitive and went to what was important and common. I recommend adding them back and here is the patch:

1. Create /grade/tabs.php with this content:
<?php
$row = $tabs = array();
$tabcontext = get_context_instance(CONTEXT_COURSE, $COURSE->id);

if (has_capability('moodle/grade:manage',$tabcontext ) ||
has_capability('moodle/grade:edit', $tabcontext) ||
has_capability('gradereport/grader:view', $tabcontext))

{ $row[] = new tabobject('graderreport', $CFG->wwwroot.'/grade/report/grader/index.php?id='.$courseid, get_string('modulename', 'gradereport_grader')); $row[] = new tabobject('preferences', $CFG->wwwroot.'/grade/report/grader/preferences.php?id='.$courseid, get_string('myreportpreferences', 'grades')); $row[] = new tabobject('report', $CFG->wwwroot.'/grade/report/user/index.php?id='.$courseid, get_string('report', 'grades')); $row[] = new tabobject('categoriesanditems', $CFG->wwwroot.'/grade/edit/tree/index.php?id='.$courseid, get_string('categoriesanditems', 'grades')); $tabs[] = $row; echo '<div class="gradedisplay">'; print_tabs($tabs, $currenttab); echo '</div>'; }

?>

2. After print_heading(get_string('categoriesedit', 'grades')); in /grade/edit/tree/index.php, add:

$currenttab = 'categoriesanditems';
include($CFG->dirroot.'/grade/tabs.php');

3. Replace the line require('tabs.php'); in grade/report/grader/index.php with

$currenttab = 'graderreport';
include($CFG->dirroot.'/grade/tabs.php');

4. Replace line include('tab.php'); in grade/report/grader/preference.php with

$currenttab = 'preferences';
include($CFG->dirroot.'/grade/tabs.php');

5. After print_grade_plugin_selector($courseid, 'report', 'user'); in /grade/report/user/index.php add

// Add tabs
$currenttab = 'report';
include($CFG->dirroot.'/grade/tabs.php');

Note that I use include rather than require because it does not give a fatal error when tabs.php fails to load.