Moodle Core’s announced a number of big changes to the Moodle gradebook for the 1.9.5 release. Among the changes:

• the student name column is now sticky (which means you can still see if if you scroll to the right to look at additional assignments).
• The categories page has been re-organized and color coded to make things easier to understand.
• Administrators can now reduce the number of grade aggregation methods.
• The Gradebook’s drop-down navigation menu can now be supplemented by tabbed navigation.

There’s a lot of stuff in there. We’re going to be delving into it on a test server just as soon as the code is released to CVS; I’m looking forward to seeing how our usability tests run with this new Gradebook.