Clayton,
Thank you for your organized and complete thoughts about this forum discussion topic. You have developed your own "CVU" system. You can carry this throughout the course in many different ways.
You will communicate, be visible to students, and try to understand where they are coming from.
Students are expected to communicate with you, be visible online in a timely manner and will ask if they don't understand.
Love it. It's your online teaching philosophy in the development stage. Nice job.