Xenforo allows people to use a demo of their forums.
I will show below just how easy it is to make A User a Moderator over there.
(This can be copied to the new boards if you want, I can't cause I'm banned over there)
Start by choosing the user and editing them to a moderator
Start by going to create new moderator, type in part of the username and the user will be displayed in a dropdown list.
then you simply check the boxes to give them moderating powers
followed by 'save'
All thats left to do then is change the moderators preferences so that it can access private nodes (mod squad boards)
And then lastly equally as easy is the option to add a title or add any number of message posts.
Click save, repeat a few times for the other mods and it's done.
Just so simple.