Communication in my classroom

As a secondary education teacher communication will be at a high demand for my classroom. If I had to predict I would say it will probably be 60% student and 40% parent communication. I think it is important for me to make myself accessible to the students outside of the classroom. My plan was to create a classroom website. The main goal of the website would be for me to try and answer any questions the student might have before they contact me. So I will put up assignments, updates, quiz dates, what is expected for any specific project, etc. If the students have a question that has not been answered through the website I will have a contact page. On this page I will include an email account that I have created specifically for my classes, and I want to create some sort of chat forum where the students might be able to help one another. This way if another student is online at the same time and knows the answer to the question they can answer it and that way the student won't have to contact me. A guideline I would create for the email is that the email must be received before 7 p.m. the night before we have class. I think this way it puts the responsibility on the student to make the effort and make sure they get that question in quickly. As far as parent communication goes I would still include my email. However, I would also give the parents access to my home phone number. This number will not be able to be used by a student but I feel that parents should be able to contact the person education their children when they have a question. Of course I will request some courtesy with this privilege and ask that parents don't call that number after 8 p.m. at the latest. For my website I would also look for some sort of software that can allow the parents to make appointments with me. This way if they have a dire need to see me they can go on the website and set up an appointment where we can get together and talk face to face. One of my biggest goals as a teacher is to be able to communicate with parents and students so I think this game plan that I have created is a great step forward in achieving that goal.