Admins not able to do much?
 

I added a few users as admins so they can help me manage the forum and help adding forums and child forums.

They have no access to do that besides "moderate" even though they are admins?

Are you sure they know how?

you need to set their administrator permissions

usergroups > administrator permissions

They have full administrator rights.

Also, yes I am sure, I even logged into their accounts to make sure and they barely have any access.

Screenshot required. Did you click Save and NOT reset?

Of course.

You don't need to let them moderate a forum when they have full permissions.
I dont see why you people make Admins mods of certain forums.
Just use Admin Perms.

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Second thought, you set their options when you add a moderator to the forum.

No, I am trying to make them an admin for the WHOLE forum and they don't have access..

So you selected every single administrator right in that list and they don't have any of them? Or just some of them?

Make them administrator of the whole forum?
change thier usergroup to administrator, THEN you will see in red font, "change administrator permissions"