Abstract: A network based conference system is disclosed for allowing providing image access to remote attendees. The network based conference system includes an image acquisition module which communicates with a collaboration server over a network. Remote attendees may readily monitor an ongoing presentation in near real-time via a network connection to the collaboration server. According to one embodiment of the invention, the remote attendees may monitor the ongoing presentation via the use of a standard Internet browser. The network based conference system is particularly useful for overcoming the requirements of installation and operation of special conferencing software and hardware of network conference systems known in the art.