Confused about Moderator permissions

[FLMom]

Hi there

I am having a problem setting my Moderators up to actually moderate the boards. I have very few staff, but need for them all to be able to edit, move, close, merge and sticky threads. I don't however, want them to have access to the Mod Cp, at least not yet because they are all fairly new and I am not sure how much damage they could potentially cause kwim? I do trust them, but it would take just one of them messing around to really mess things up, so is there a way to give the permissions listed above without giving full SuperMod access?

Why would this not be default with VB? Or is it and I am just missing something here?

Thanks for any help you can offer