The current study examines the impact of teacher video presence on student performance and satisfaction in a regular asynchronous online course required as part of an undergraduate accounting program. For a sample of 115 students registered in the course, the results indicate that 'enhanced strategic' teacher video presence does not lead to better learning outcomes than use of videos with no teacher video presence. However, it does increase the satisfaction of students who do not participate in separate Zoom meetings with the teacher. To our knowledge, this paper is the first to analyze the impact of teacher video presence in a regular 15-week asynchronous online course in an undergraduate program, including impact on student satisfaction. By comparing two extremes, 'enhanced strategic' teacher video presence and no teacher video presence, the experiment provides an acid test of the effect of teacher video presence in a regular undergraduate online course.