WebCT, students cannot realistically expect to attend office hours because there simply is not enough time for each student to have any significant time (rough calculation: 200+ students in a course means 30 office hours during a term if each students gets 10 minutes during the term, which is two hours per week, all that is available).
WebCTand then expect that students will read it fairly often. In a traditional lecture style course, students would only be responsible for receiving information about due dates, assignments, etc., during the scheduled lectures. I suspect most instructors now expect students to monitor
WebCtor e-mail on a daily basis.